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ResetResource | Technical Assistance & Guidance
    CEP Planning and Implementation Guidance
        A final rule, Child Nutrition Programs: Community Eligibility Provision-Increasing Options for Schools (88 FR 65778), was published on Sept. 26, 2023, with an effective date of Oct. 26, 2023, that established the 25 percent minimum ISP threshold.  As a result, more students, households, and schools have the opportunity to experience CEP’s benefits, such as increasing access to school meals at no cost, eliminating unpaid meal charges, minimizing stigma, and streamlining meal service operations.
      02/12/2024
    Resource | Policy Memos
    FNS-640 Reporting Guidance
        This memo provides reporting guidance for the FNS-640 report beginning with reporting for school year (SY) 2018-19 due March 1, 2020.
          SP03-2020
    01/29/2024
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Revised: Crediting Tofu and Soy Yogurt Products in the School Meal Programs, CACFP, and SFSP
        This memorandum provides updated guidance on crediting tofu and soy yogurt products in the Child and Adult Care Food Program and extends previous guidance on crediting tofu and soy yogurt products to the Summer Food Service Program, as well as to the infant meal pattern in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
          SP 02-2024, CACFP 02-2024, SFSP 02-2024
    11/29/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Procuring Local Meat, Poultry, Game and Eggs for Child Nutrition Programs
        Recently, FNS has received a number of questions related to buying local meat, poultry, game, and eggs; this memorandum seeks to clarify the regulatory requirements related to food safety and answer specific questions related to these products with a series of questions and answers.
          SP 01,CACFP 01, SFSP 01-2016
    11/20/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0109
    State Guidance on Pandemic EBT
        USDA is committed to providing nutrition assistance to hard-hit families across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. In support of President Biden’s call to action on hunger, USDA announced that it is increasing the Pandemic EBT benefit by approximately 15 percent, providing more money for low-income families and millions of children missing meals due to school and child care closures.
      11/03/2023
    Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2013-0024
    El virus estomacal
        El virus estomacal: lo que el personal de la escuela debe saber
      09/07/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0024
    Revised Prototype Free and Reduced Price Application for SY 2017-2018
        Attached to this memorandum, please find a revised edition of the Prototype Application for Free and Reduced Price School Meals, with an accompanying instructions document. These materials may be adapted for direct use by state and local agencies, or as a reference for designing an effective application packet that meets all statutory and regulatory requirements.
          SP28-2017
    05/11/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Rural Designations in the Summer Meal Programs - Revised
        The purpose of this memorandum is to revise guidance on rural designations in the Summer Food Service Program and the National School Lunch Program’s Seamless Summer Option (SSO). The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 authorized a permanent non-congregate meal service option through the SFSP and SSO for children who live in rural communities with no congregate meal service. This memorandum supersedes SFSP policy memorandum SFSP 17-2015, Rural Designations in the Summer Food Service Program – Revised, April 21, 2017.
          SFSP 04-2024, SP 06-2024
    03/06/2023
    Resource | FAQs/Q&As | FNS-GD-2007-0022
    Questions and Answers on Alternate Protein Products
        The term "Alternate Protein Product" is the name used by FNS to identify products meeting requirements set forth in Appendix A of the NSLP, SBP, SFSP, and the CACFP within the section entitled Alternate Protein Products.
      10/04/2022
    Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance | FNS-GD-2018-0001
    Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
        The Food Buying Guide for child nutrition programs has all of the current information in one manual to help you and your purchasing agent buy the right amount of food and the appropriate type of food for your program(s), and determine the specific contribution each food makes toward the meal pattern requirements.
      07/11/2022

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