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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 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 memorandum provides guidance 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 Confidentiality Protections in TEFAP

This policy memorandum provides guidance for TEFAP state agencies on requirements related to protecting the confidentiality of TEFAP applicant and participant information and the identity of individuals making a complaint or allegation against an individual participating in or administering the program.

12/20/2024
Resource | Policy Maintenance of Lists of Eligible Recipient Agencies Participating in TEFAP (Revised)

This memorandum provides guidance to TEFAP state agencies on maintaining lists of eligible recipient agencies (ERAs) that participate in TEFAP in their state or territory, and applicable program regulations related to these lists.

12/18/2024
Resource | Policy FY 2025 Commodity Credit Corporation TEFAP Funding

This memorandum provides information about the approximately $500 million in additional support for emergency food programs that USDA is providing in FY 2025 under the statutory authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act for distribution through The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

12/17/2024
Resource | Policy FDPIR - Applying the New Shelter/Utility Deduction and Calculating Net Monthly Income

This memorandum provides FDPIR administering agencies with guidance on how to apply the new shelter/utility deduction and outlines changes in the process to calculate a household’s net monthly income to account for the new shelter/utility deduction.

12/17/2024
Resource | Policy Federal and State Programs Conferring CSFP Income Eligibility

This memorandum provides CSFP state agencies, including ITOs, with guidance on the requirements  for conferring CSFP income eligibility through participation in  specific federal  programs  or state programs with income eligibility guidelines at or below the state agency’s CSFP threshold.

12/17/2024
Resource | Policy FDPIR Guidance on Changes to Household Eligibility

This memorandum provides FDPIR administering agencies with guidance on changes to household eligibility requirements.

12/17/2024
Page updated: October 14, 2021