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Date FNS Document# Title
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA); Interpretation of “Federal Public Benefit”
SP 17-2025 Reimbursement for Off-Site Meal Consumption
SP 09-2025 Buy American Accommodation Process for School Year 2025-26
SEBT 01-2025 Summer EBT FERPA Resource
SFSP 03-2025, SP 08-2025 Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Areas: Q&As #3
SP 03-2025, CACFP 03-2025, SFSP 01-2025 Substituting Vegetables for Grains in American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Tribal Communities
Summer Food Service Program
Small Entity Compliance Guide
Buy American Provisions Related to the Final Rule - CNP Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020-25 DGAs
Final Rule - Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 DGAs
SFSP 07-2024, SP 13-2024 Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Areas Q&As
SFSP 03-2024, SP 05-2024 Implementation Guidance for the Rural Non-congregate Option Provisions of the Interim Final Rule, Establishing the Summer EBT Program and Rural Non-Congregate Option in the Summer Meal Programs
Final Rule: Child Nutrition Programs - CEP Increasing Options for Schools
SP 22-2023 Community Eligibility Provision: Implementing the New Minimum Identified Student Percentage
SP 17-2023 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program: Allocation of Funds for FY 2024
SFSP 08-2024, SP 15-2024 Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Areas: Q&As #2
Proposed Rule: Child Nutrition Programs Community Eligibility Provision - Increasing Options for Schools
SP 07-2023, CACFP 06-2023, SFSP 04-2023 Unique Entity Identifier Transition
SP16-2022 Third Allocation of Supply Chain Assistance Funds to Alleviate Supply Chain Disruptions in the School Meal Programs
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #106 Nationwide Waiver for Selected Child Nutrition Program Reporting Requirements
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #105 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Service of Meals at School Sites during Unanticipated School Closures in SY 2021-22
SP 12-2021 Department of Education Information on the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
SP11 CACFP10 SFSP06 -2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021: Effect on Child Nutrition Programs - REVISED
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #84 Child Nutrition Nationwide Waiver Update for SY 2021-22
SP09 CACFP07-2021 Child Nutrition Emergency Operational Costs Reimbursement Programs: State Agency Implementation Plan Template and Q&A Guidance
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #74 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Meal Pattern Flexibilities for Summer 2021 Operations- Extension 9
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #70 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Meal Pattern Flexibility in the Child Nutrition Programs – Extension 5
CN - Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers – Extension 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #16 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Offer Versus Serve Flexibilities in the Summer Food Service Program
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #6 Nationwide Waiver of Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #4 COVID-19 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Meal Pattern Flexibility in the Child Nutrition Programs
FD-064 Management of Donated Food Inventories at Processors
FNS Instruction 709-5 Instruction 709-5: Shipment and Receipt of USDA Foods
SP43-2017 Revised SY16-17 SFA-3 Administrative Review Form for FNS-640 Reporting
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
SP 06-2016, SFSP 06-2016v2 Promoting Nutrition in Summer Meal Program with Best Practices
CACFP 12-2013, SFSP 14-2013 Transitioning from SFSP to CACFP At-risk Afterschool Meals
SP01 CACFP01 SFSP01-2013 Federal Small Purchase Threshold Adjustment
FD-125 Offering School Food Authorities the Required Value and Variety of USDA Foods, and Efficient and Cost-Effective Distribution
SP11, CACFP05, SFSP07-2012 Guidance on the Food Donation Program in Child Nutrition Programs
FD-080 Guidance in Crediting for, and Use of Donated Foods in Contracts with Food Service Management Companies
FNS Instruction 410-1 Rev. 2 Claims For Losses of Donated Foods and Related Administrative Losses - Procedures for the State Distributing Agency
FNS Instruction 782-6 FNS Instruction 782-6: Fees for Lunchroom Services
FD-067, SP15-2010 School Food Authorities Acting as a Collective Unit in the Control and Use of Donated Foods (Revised)
SP 10-2010 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Targeted School Selection and Outreach Process
SP26 CACFP06 SFSP02-2009 Clarification of State Agency Review Requirements for Donated Foods in the NSLP and Other Child Nutrition Programs
SP34-2006 Change to Item 6 in the FNS-742, School Food Authority Verification Summary Report
FD-058 Annual Physical Inventory-Reconciliation of Book Inventory to Physical Inventory
SP16-2006 Record-Keeping Requirements
FD-052 Annual Physical Inventory - Reconciliation and Offsetting
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