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Date FNS Document# Title
Final Rule - Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 DGAs
Updates to the School Nutrition Standards
Final Rule for School Meal Standards
Implementation Timeline for Updating the School Meal Standards
How We Got Here: School Nutrition Standards Final Rule
Implementation Timeline for Updated Nutrition Requirements in CACFP & SFSP
Serious Deficiency Process in the CACFP and SFSP
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
SP 01,CACFP 01, SFSP 01-2016 Procuring Local Meat, Poultry, Game and Eggs for Child Nutrition Programs
Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP
Area Eligibility
Flyer for Households to Encourage School Meal Enrollment
Timeline for Enhancing USDA Summer Nutrition Programs
CACFP 08-2023, SFSP 10-2023 Best Practices for Streamlining Applications for Year-Round Program Operations
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Community Eligibility Provision - Summary of Proposed Rule
Extension of Comment Period - CNP Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020 DGAs
School Meal Standards Comparison Chart
SP 02-2023 Determining Eligibility for Severe Need Reimbursement Rates for the School Breakfast Program and the Two Cent Differential Reimbursement for the National School Lunch Program in SY 2023-24
Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP Webinar
Final Rule: Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
School Meals Application Materials in French
SP 11-2022 Determining Eligibility for Severe Need Reimbursement for the SBP and the Two Cent Differential Reimbursement for the NSLP in SY 2022-23 and 2023-24
Nutrition Standards for School Meals
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #82 Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #64 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Area Eligibility for Closed Enrolled Sites in the SFSP and the NSLP Seamless Summer Option – Extension 2
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #60 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers – Extension 3
CN - Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers – Extension 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #52 CN: Extend Area Eligibility Waivers Extension 2
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #32 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers through August 31, 2020
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Professional Standards
Tools for Schools: Focusing on Smart Snacks
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
Verification Toolkit
SFSP01-2019 Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2018-2019)
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
SP36 CACFP15 SFSP11-2017 Eligibility Manual for School Meals
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2017-2018)
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
Best Practices for the Use of the USDA DoD Fresh Program in the Summer Food Service Program
Final Rule: Local School Wellness Policy Implementation Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010; Approval of Information Collection Request
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
School Nutrition Program Operations Study - SY 2012-13
Examining the Potential to Expand Data Matching in the School Meal Program Eligibility and Verification Processes
School Meals Application Materials in Nepali
School Meals Application Materials in Kru
Page updated: November 20, 2019