FNS Documents & Resources

This guidance describes $1 billion being provided by FNS to enhance local school districts’ ability to purchase foods for school meals by offering resources needed to address supply chain challenges directly to schools and school districts.

To help schools deal with supply chain challenges brought on by the pandemic, USDA is providing up to: $1 billion in Supply Chain Assistance funds for schools to purchase food for their meal programs, $300 million for states to purchase USDA Foods to distribute to schools, and $200 million for cooperative agreements to purchase local foods for schools, focusing on historically underused producers.

As long as there is a national Public Health Emergency in place and the state has a state-level emergency declaration in place, states may opt to continue to provide monthly emergency allotments to their caseload. States have the option to provide a one-month EA issuance phase-out following the end of their state emergency declaration.

When the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency began in March 2020, FNS quickly responded by allowing state agencies to suspend requirements to conduct face-to-face interviews for QC active reviews. This flexibility was initially granted until Sept. 30, 2020, and then extended through Dec. 31, 2020. On April 30, 2021, FNS issued a memo that SNAP QC will resume nationwide starting July 2021, but provided state agencies with a blanket waiver of the QC face-to-face interview through Dec. 31, 2021.

Provides information on how states can request to implement or extend certain COVID-19 administrative flexibilities beginning on Jan. 1, 2022.

This is the eighth video in the webisode series that reviews the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations Nutrition Education (FDPNE) Grant Program Request for Applications.

This is the seventh video in the webisode series that reviews the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations Nutrition Education Grant Program Request for Applications.

This is the sixth video in the webisode series that reviews the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations Nutrition Education Grant Program Request for Applications.

This is the fifth video in the webisode series that reviews the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations Nutrition Education (FDPNE) grant program request for applications. 

This is the first video in the webisode series that reviews the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations Nutrition Education (FDPNE) grant program request for applications.