The interim rule, Direct Certification and Certification of Homeless, Migrant and Runaway Children for Free School Meals, was published on April 25, 2011. One of the provisions in this rule concerns the frequency of direct certification matching activities with the SNAP and is effective July 1, 2011.
This rule amends the regulations affecting the determination of children's eligibility for free meals under the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program by direct certification and categorical eligibility. Conforming changes and miscellaneous technical changes are also made, as appropriate, for the Special Milk Program for Children, the Child and Adult Care Food Program and the Summer Food Service Program.
Effective Oct.1, 2008, institutions receiving funds through the child nutrition programs may apply an optional geographic preference in the procurement of unprocessed locally grown or locally raised agricultural products.
FNS Form 711 - Supplemental Form for Collecting Taxpayer Identifying Numbers
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 modifies the requirements for the periodic submission of renewal applications by institutions participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program. The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance on the implementation of this modification to the CACFP.
This memorandum provides guidance on implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010’s provision regarding a FDCH sponsor’s ability to “carry over” a limited amount of unused administrative payments from one year to the next.
The purpose of this memorandum is to advise that FNS Instruction 776-6, Revision 1 has been determined to be obsolete and to notify state agencies that beginning in Summer 2011, state agencies may approve meal service at for-profit sites operated by eligible non-profit Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) service institutions.
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance on the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (the Act) modified the requirements pertaining to sponsoring organization facility reviews in the Child and Adult Care Food Program. The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance on the implementation of these modifications.
This rule permanently excludes combat pay from being considered as income and eliminates the maximum dollar limit of the dependent care deduction.