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Date FNS Document# Title
CEP Planning and Implementation Guidance
SP 11-2024 CEP: State Agency Procedures to Ensure Identified Student Percentage Accuracy
SP 10-2024 CEP: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and School Year 2024-25 Election Deadline
SP 09-2024 Community Eligibility Provision: Guidance and Updated Q&As
SP 08-2024 Community Eligibility Provision: Planning and Implementation Guidance - Updated
Final Rule: Child Nutrition Programs - CEP Increasing Options for Schools
SP 22-2023 Community Eligibility Provision: Implementing the New Minimum Identified Student Percentage
Proposed Rule: Child Nutrition Programs Community Eligibility Provision - Increasing Options for Schools
SP 10-2023 Updated Title I Guidance for Making Within District Allocations
SP 09-2023 Community Eligibility Provision: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and School Year 2023-2024 Election Deadline
SP 08-2023 Free or Low-Cost Internet Services Available to All Households with Kids at Schools Participating in the Community Eligibility Provision
SP 12-2021 Department of Education Information on the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #82 Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #6 Nationwide Waiver of Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
SP30-2019 Requirements for Students Transferring from Provision to non-Provision Schools
SP17-2019 CEP: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and SY 2019-20 Election Deadline
SP 05-2018, CACFP 05-2018 Providing Child Nutrition Program Benefits to Disaster Survivor Evacuees
SP29-2017 2017 Edition: Overcoming the Unpaid Meal Challenge - Proven Strategies from Our Nation’s Schools
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
Comment Request - Evaluation of the Direct Certification With Medicaid for Free and Reduced-Price (DCM-F/RP) Meals Demonstrations
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
SP43-2016 Ensuring Access to Free and Reduced Price School Meals for Low-Income Students
Final Rule: Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
Comment Request - Food Program Reporting System (FPRS)
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
SP35-2015 Updated Title I Guidance for Schools Electing Community Eligibility
SP08-2015 Updated E-Rate Guidance for Schools Electing Community Eligibility
SP51-2014 Eligibility Effective Date for Directly Certified Students
SP 46-2014, CACFP 12-2014, SFSP 18-2014 Disaster Response
SP11 CACFP06 SFSP11-2014 Effective Date of Free or Reduced Price Meal Eligibility Determinations
Proposed Rule: NSLP and SBP Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
SP40 CACFP11 SFSP13-2013 Q&As Regarding the Participation of Head Start Programs in Child Nutrition Programs
SP03-2012 Direct Certification and Zero Benefit Households
National School Lunch Program and Direct Certification with SNAP
SP02-2012 Verification and Reporting of Foster Children
SP50 CACFP27 SFSP20-2011 Free and Reduced Price Meal Applications – Requests for Additional Information
SP32-2011 Direct Certification Benchmarks and Continuous Improvement Plans
SP13-2011 Letter Method for Direct Certification
SP25 CACFP11 SFSP10-2010 Q&As on Extending Categorical Eligibility to Additional Children in a Household
SP22 CACFP10 SFSP08-2010 Categorical Eligibility: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
SP38 CACFP08 SFSP07-2009 Extending Categorical Eligibility to Additional Children in a Household
SP04-2009 Reminder Concerning E-Rate Audits by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
SP32-2006 Clarification of Direct Verification
SP-12-2005 Statutory Changes in the Free and Reduced Price Eligibility Determination Process and Revised Prototype Application Implementation Memo
Guidance on Determining Categorical Eligibility for Free Lunches and Breakfasts for Youth Served under the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act
Categorical Eligibility for Free Lunches and Breakfasts for Migrant Children
SP 4-2004 Categorical Eligibility for Free Lunches and Breakfasts of Runaway, Homeless, and Migrant Youth
Categorical Eligibility of Pre-Kindergarten Even Start Participants for Free Meal Benefits
Page updated: November 20, 2019