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Resource | Grants FY 2021 Cohort A Team Nutrition Training Grants for School Meal Recipe Development

FY 2021 Team Nutrition Training Grants awarded

12/22/2021
Resource | Grants FY 2017 Team Nutrition Training Grants

Recipients of FY 2017 Team Nutrition Training Grants. 

12/20/2021
Resource | Policy Memos Nationwide Waivers of Child Nutrition Monitoring

FNS has used its authority under FFRCA to waive certain onsite monitoring requirements for the school meals programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Summer Food Service Program, so that programs can to maintain program integrity and support social distancing while providing meals. 

11/12/2021
Resource | Factsheets FY 2022 Farm to Food Bank Project Summaries

Project summaries for the 29 TEFAP state agencies that received fiscal year 2022 Farm to Food Bank project funding.

11/10/2021
Resource | Grants PTIG FY2021 Kick-Off Webinar

Video of the FY2021 kickoff call for the Process and Technology Improvements Grants.

11/04/2021
Resource | Policy Memos SNAP - Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents Percentage Exemption Totals for FY 22

FNS has estimated the number of new discretionary exemptions each state has earned for FY 2022. States that operated under a statewide waiver of the ABAWD time limit did not earn any new exemptions.

10/22/2021
Resource | Policy Child Nutrition: Questions and Answers related to COVID-19

USDA has issued a series of question and answer documents on flexibilities and waivers for the child nutrition programs intended to support effective operations and provide meals, while also supporting social distancing in order to reduce the exposure to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

10/01/2021
Resource | Policy Updated Expiration Schedule for Existing FNS-Approved WIC COVID-19 Waivers

FNS has heard from state agency partners that a safe and successful return to normal operations will require more than 30 days’ notice once the nationally-declared public health emergency ends. Therefore, this memorandum extends certain WIC waivers until 90 days after the end of the nationally-declared public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act.

09/20/2021
Resource | Policy FY 22 SNAP QC Tolerance Level

Annual update to the QC tolerance threshold for excluding small errors from the SNAP payment error rate. By law, the threshold is adjusted based on changes to the thrifty food plan. The tolerance threshold will increase from $39 in FY 21 to $48 in FY 22. This memo corrects the previous version that incorrectly stated the FY 21 threshold as $37. There are no other changes.

09/16/2021
Resource | Interim Final Rule Correction: SNAP Non-Discretionary Quality Control Provisions of Title IV of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018

This document contains a correction to an interim final rule published in the Federal Register on Aug.  13, 2021. The rule codifies statutory requirements enacted by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. This document also extends the comment period for the interim final rule.

09/02/2021
Page updated: October 14, 2021