FNS Documents & Resources

This Notice announces the Department's annual adjustments to the Income Eligibility Guidelines to be used in determining eligibility for free and reduced price meals and free milk for the period from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.

The Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans, three fundamental parts of the U.S. food guidance system, have been revised by USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, with assistance from USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, Economic Research Service, and Agricultural Research Service. The plans provide representative healthful market baskets at three different cost levels. This revision maintains the same inflation-adjusted costs as those of the previous three food plans, last revised in 2003. In line with previous food plans, an assumption used to develop these plans was that all purchased food is consumed at home.

Final Report. The primary charge of the work group was to identify Program requirements, policies, and procedures that, if eliminated or modified, would reduce burden or effort for SAs, institutions, and facilities participating in CACFP without undermining ongoing efforts to improve Program management.

Making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other  purposes.

The purpose of this handbook is to help state Agencies write procurement documents for EBT services.

The purpose of this memorandum is to announce the implementation, effective Dec. 15, 2007, of the modifications to the TEFAP allocation formula that we proposed in the Federal Register notice published on Oct. 24, 2007.

This memo clarifies how the food safety inspection requirement is to be carried out by program operators on military bases, Indian reservations and Residential Child Care Institutions (RCCIs).

To reauthorize the Head Start Act, to improve program quality, to expand access, and for other purposes.