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Resource | Guidance Documents Automatic Eligibility for Early Head Start Participants

This memorandum supplements the guidance issued on May 16, 2008, concerning automatic eligibility for free meals for any child who is enrolled in Head Start.

08/05/2008
Resource | Policy Questions and Answers on the Farm Bill

Attached are questions and answers providing policy clarification on issues related to the Employment and Training provisions of the Farm Bill.

08/01/2008
Resource | Guidance Documents Simplified Acquisition Threshold

The purpose of this memorandum is to extend the prevailing simplified acquisition threshold, commonly referred to as the small purchase threshold, to the Child and Adult Care and Summer Food Service Programs.

07/30/2008
Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations Report to Congress: The Nebraska Rural Area Eligibility Determination Pilot for the CACFP

The Child and Adult Care Food Program subsidizes nutritious meals and snacks served to participants in child care nationwide, providing different levels or “tiers” of meal reimbursement based on the income level of participating children, providers, and nearby geographic areas. Policymakers have long been concerned that programs such as CACFP are not as accessible to eligible children in rural areas as in urban areas.

07/23/2008
Resource | Guidance Documents Streamlining At-Risk Afterschool Meal Participation for School Food Authorities Currently Participating in the NSLP

The purpose of this memorandum is to establish the authority of state agencies that administer the National School Lunch Program and the Child and Adult Care Food Program at-risk afterschool meals to permit school food authorities to administer the CACFP at-risk afterschool meals in a manner consistent with the NSLP requirements.

06/06/2008
Resource | Policy Sharing Income Eligibility Information between Child Nutrition Programs

The purpose of this memo is to highlight previously issued guidance on the disclosure of eligibility information between child nutrition programs, and to offer clarification on the application of this policy.

 

02/15/2008
Resource | Guidance Documents Guidance on Reallocation of CACFP Audit Funds

This memorandum provides the information needed to conduct the reallocation of CACFP audit funds.

02/13/2008
Resource | Guidance Documents FY 2008 Reallocation of State Administrative Expense Funds

This memorandum and attachments provide the information needed to conduct the FY 2008 reallocation of SAE funds.

02/13/2008
Resource | Guidance Documents Treatment of Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance and National Flood Insurance Program payments in Income Eligibility Determinations for FNS Programs

This memorandum provides guidance to state administrators in making household eligibility determinations in all nutrition assistance programs administered by FNS.

10/29/2005
Resource | Guidance Documents Q&As Regarding Institution Applications from Training on the Second Interim Rule

This memorandum transmits Attachment 1, which compiles questions and answers on institution application requirements raised during our training on the second interim Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) management improvement rule (69 FR 53501, Sept. 1, 2004).

09/23/2005
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