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Resource | Policy CSFP: Announcement of Update to the Food Package Maximum Monthly Distribution Rates, Effective Sept. 1, 2025

In alignment with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ priorities to encourage healthy choices, healthy outcomes, and healthy families and connect America’s farmers to nutrition assistance programs, we are revising the CSFP Maximum Monthly Distribution Rates to reflect the foods currently available in the program.

08/11/2025
Resource | Policy CSFP: Caseload Assignments for the 2025 Caseload Cycle and Administrative Grants

This final national caseload level ensures that resources are sufficient to provide full food packages to participants throughout the caseload cycle. We are allocating final caseload and administrative grants for 2025 to CSFP state agencies, including Tribes and U.S. territories.

03/24/2025
Resource | Policy Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Income Guidelines for 2025

This memorandum transmits the 2025 income guidelines for state agencies and tribes in determining the eligibility of individuals applying to participate in CSFP.

03/07/2025
Resource | Policy The Emergency Food Assistance Program - Income Eligibility Guidelines for 2025

This TEFAP program guidance memorandum transmits the 2025 income guidelines for state agencies and tribes in determining the eligibility of individuals applying to participate in TEFAP.

03/07/2025
Resource | Policy FD-069: Eligibility of ITOs and other Tribal Entities to Participate in TEFAP (Revised)

This TEFAP program guidance memorandum provides information regarding the eligibility of ITOs and other Tribal entities to participate in TEFAP and to outline several best practices for working with ITOs and other Tribal entities in TEFAP.

01/14/2025
Resource | Policy Automatic Revocation of Tax-Exempt Status

The purpose of this TEFAP program guidance memorandum is to outline the procedures for each food distribution program in addressing organizations that have lost tax-exempt status for failing to meet IRS filing requirements.

10/13/2011
Resource | Training and Outreach Measuring the Ambient Storage Temperature in a Transport Unit Containing Shell Eggs Packaged For The Ultimate Consumer

USDA Agriculture Marketing Service guidance for recipients electing to check the ambient temperature in a transport unit for shell eggs contracted for delivery under the USDA Commodity Purchase Program.

08/18/2011
Resource | Policy Memos Replacement of USDA Foods Destroyed Due to a Household Misfortune

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance on replacement of USDA Foods Destroyed due to a household misfortune.

07/12/2011
Resource | Policy Claims Resolution Act of 2010 - Payments Received via the Cobell Settlement

TEFAP program guidance FD-116: Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), Food Distribution Program in Indian Reservations (FDPIR), and The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)

05/12/2011
Resource | Policy Civil Rights Training Requirements for Volunteers

This TEFAP program guidance memorandum clarifies FNS policy regarding civil rights training for volunteers in CSFP, TEFAP, and FDPIR. Additional information may be found in FNS Instruction 113-1.

01/25/2011
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