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Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2004-0030 Categorical Eligibility for Free Lunches and Breakfasts for Migrant Children

This memorandum supplements our Reauthorization Implementation Memo SP 4 by providing additional information on identifying migrant children and on the procedures that school food authorities and local education agencies should use to coordinate with the Migrant Education Program in order to document the categorical eligibility of migrant children for free meals.

08/16/2004
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2004-0025 Categorical Eligibility for Free Lunches and Breakfasts of Runaway, Homeless, and Migrant Youth

Section 107 of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 amended the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make runaway, homeless and migrant children categorically eligible for free meal benefits under the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs and is effective July 1, 2004.

SP 4-2004
07/19/2004
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