Modifications to Accommodate Disabilities in the School Meal Programs
This policy memorandum includes important updates to requirements related to accommodating children with disabilities participating in the school meal programs.
Ensuring Year-long Eligibility in the School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
The purpose of this memorandum is to strongly encourage local educational agencies to accept eligibility determinations from a transferring student’s former LEA to minimize disruptions in meal benefits for low-income students and avoid student debt resulting from unpaid meal charges.
Unpaid Meal Charges: Clarification on Collection of Delinquent Meal Payments
There has been confusion about how unpaid meal charges must be handled when all collection efforts have been exhausted. To help address these situations, this memorandum clarifies the processes of designating delinquent debt that has been determined to be uncollectable as bad debt and obtaining assistance to offset bad debt losses.
Unpaid Meal Charges: Local Meal Charge Policies
The purpose of this memorandum is to address the need for school food authorities participating in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program to institute and clearly communicate a meal charge policy, which would include, if applicable, the availability of alternate meals.
FDA Requirements for Vending Machines
On Dec. 1, 2014, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration published the final rule, Food Labeling; Calorie Labeling of Articles of Food in Vending Machines, in the Federal Register.