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ResetResource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0049
    2018 Direct Certification Improvement Grant RFA
        The fiscal year 2018 Direct Certification Improvement Grant Request for Applications are available to state agencies that administer the National School Lunch and the School Breakfast programs to fund the costs of improving your direct certification rates with SNAP, and other needs-based assistance programs.
          SP41-2017
    08/15/2017
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2013-0088
    Attachments to SP12-2014: RFA for Participation in Demonstration Projects to Evaluate Direct Certification with Medicaid in SY 2014-15
        FNS invites state agencies that administer the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program to apply to participate in demonstration projects that will evaluate the effectiveness of conducting direct certification with the Medicaid program.
      12/06/2013
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2013-0069
    Transmittal of Q&As on Computation of Direct Certification Performance Rate with SNAP
        The attached Q&As are issued in follow-up to Policy Memorandum SP 50-2013, Release of the new state agency Direct Certification Rate Data Element Report.
          SP54-2013
    08/16/2013
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2013-0059
    Data Exchange between the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) for Direct Certification with SNAP
        This memo is to inform you of recent changes related to data exchanges for the purposes of direct certification for NSLP with SNAP. Please share this information with state agencies administering SNAP and continue to encourage them to fully cooperate with their NSLP counterparts to improve the direct certification of children in SNAP households.
      07/16/2013
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2013-0058
    Release of the New State Agency Direct Certification Rate Data Element Report (Form FNS-834)
        The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, as amended by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010  require that children living in households receiving assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be directly certified for free school meals under the National School Lunch Program and/or the School Breakfast Program.
          SP50-2013
    07/01/2013
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2011-0066
    Direct Certification and Zero Benefit Households
        Section 9(b)(12)(A)(i) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act restricts categorical eligibility for free school meals based on SNAP participation to children who are members of a household receiving assistance under SNAP. Therefore, a child who is a member of a household that is receiving “zero benefits” from SNAP is not categorically eligible for free meals, unless the child is categorically eligible for another reason.
          SP03-2012
    10/25/2011
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2011-0065
    National School Lunch Program and Direct Certification with SNAP
        This memo is to inform you of changes and clarifications related to direct certification for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
      10/25/2011
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2011-0030
    Direct Certification Benchmarks and Continuous Improvement Plans
        The purpose of this memorandum is to implement provisions contained in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 which establish direct certification rate benchmarks for states and require continuous improvement plans from states that do not meet the benchmarks.
          SP32-2011
    04/28/2011
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2011-0029
    Frequency of Direct Certification Matching Activities Beginning in SY 2011-2012
        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.
          SP31-2011
    04/27/2011
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2011-0003
    Letter Method for Direct Certification
        The purpose of this memorandum is to implement a provision affecting mandatory direct certification for children in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program households.
          SP13-2011
    01/14/2011

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