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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-GD-2021-0061
    Department of Education Information on the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
        Households with a child  approved to receive free or reduced price meals under the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year are eligible for the Federal Communication Commission’s Emergency Broadband Benefit. EBB is a federal program to help eligible families pay for internet service during the pandemic.
          SP 12-2021
    05/19/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0030
    Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
        FNS is establishing a targeted waiver, for all states and local educational agencies, to extend statutory and regulatory deadlines relating to Community Eligibility Provision reporting and election during the public health emergency due to COVID–19.
          COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #82
    03/26/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0051
    Nationwide Waiver of Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
        FNS is establishing a nationwide waiver to support the Community  Eligibility Provision while schools are responding to the novel coronavirus. The deadlines affected by this waiver include the CEP election, notification and reporting deadlines.
          COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #6
    04/23/2020
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2019-0052
    Requirements for Students Transferring from Provision to non-Provision Schools
        This memorandum reminds state and local program operators about a provision in the final rule effective on July 1, 2019, relating to free and reduced price eligibility for students transferring between LEAs during the school year.
          SP30-2019
    06/10/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2019-0027
    CEP: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and SY 2019-20 Election Deadline
        This memorandum details guidance on the annual Community Eligibility Provision notification and publication requirements.
          SP17-2019
    03/26/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0009
    Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
        This memorandum details guidance on the annual Community Eligibility Provision notification and publication requirements and provides information on the USDA-developed reporting template.
          SP20-2017
    03/16/2017
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
        The purpose of this memorandum is to revise guidance on the use of school and census data to establish area eligibility in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the At-Risk Afterschool component of CACFP, the Summer Food Service Program, and the Seamless Summer Option of the National School Lunch Program.
          SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017
    12/01/2016
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2015-0025
    Updated Title I Guidance for Schools Electing Community Eligibility
        One important goal of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 is to ensure that children have access to the nutrition they need to grow into healthy adults.
          SP35-2015
    04/27/2015
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2014-0079
    Updated E-Rate Guidance for Schools Electing Community Eligibility
        This memorandum notifies state agencies and local program operators of recently updated rules issued by the Federal Communications Commission regarding the calculation of discount rates under the E-Rate program for schools electing the Community Eligibility Provision.
          SP08-2015
    11/21/2014

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