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Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2000-0004 Participation of Emergency Shelters in the Child and Adult Care Food Program - Questions and Answers

CACFP benefits have been extended to include meal services to children who reside with their families in emergency shelters, under the National School Lunch Act. Because the circumstances of an emergency shelter are so different from any other type of CACFP institution, we thought it would be helpful to share these questions and our responses.

03/14/2000
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-1999-0020 Afterschool Snacks in NSLP and the At-Risk Component of the CACFP, Questions and Answers, Edition 3

Attached is a third set of questions and answers, “Afterschool Snacks, Questions and Answers, Edition 3, 11/99."

12/01/1999
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-1999-0013 Letter to Regions on Categorical Eligibility

This memo clarifies that any time all members of a household receive benefits under a program for needy families funded primarily through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, whether cash or other benefits such as services, the TANF resource rules apply and thus an income eligible working family can both own a car and obtain food stamps.

07/14/1999
Resource | FAQs/Q&As | FNS-GD-1998-0017 Further Questions and Answers on the Balanced Budget Act of 1997

Attached is a fourth series of Q&As developed to address questions arising from states’ enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (PL 105-33). The answers do not establish new policy. They are an interpretation of the relevant provisions and their intent, and should serve as a guide until issuance of regulations.

10/23/1998
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-1997-0009 Q&As #4: Two-tier Reimbursement Structure for Family Day Care Homes Participating in CACFP

Attached is the fourth set of questions and answers on the two-tiered reimbursement structure for family day care homes in the CACFP.

05/16/1997
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-1997-0002 Q&As #2: Two-tier Reimbursement Structure for Family Day Care Homes Participating in CACFP

Questions and answers on the two-tiered reimbursement structure for family day care homes in the CACFP.

01/24/1997
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-1996-0013 QAs Concerning PL 104-193: Two-tier Reimbursement Structure for Family Day Care Homes Participating in the CACFP

Attached are answers to a series of questions which we have received concerning the new two-tiered reimbursement system mandated for FDCHs in the CACFP. 

11/25/1996
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-1996-0001 Criteria for Sponsoring Organizations under the CACFP Exempt Organizations Handbook, Section 34 (14)

On Oct. 10, 1995, we transmitted questions to the IRS regarding concerns raised by state administrators of the CACFP at the September 1995  CACFP Initiative Task Force meeting. These concerns related to the recent revision to the criteria for granting tax exemption to sponsoring organizations of family day care homes from the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Handbook.  

02/06/1996
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-1994-0008 Questions and Answers on Implementation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993

Attached is a set of Questions and Answers to assist WIC state agencies in implementing the NVRA and to identify issues and decisions which may require consultation with state election officials. As indicated in Policy Memorandum: 94-4, state agencies should integrate voter registration services in the least burdensome, most efficient manner.

WIC 1995-1
10/04/1994
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