FNS Documents & Resources

The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, as amended by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010  require that children living in households receiving assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be directly certified for free school meals under the National School Lunch Program and/or the School Breakfast Program.

On July 16, 2012, FNS issued memorandum SP 38-2012, which allowed Residential Child Care Institutions, with state agency approval, to serve the National School Lunch Program meal pattern in effect for the highest age/grade group served to all residential students.

FNS recently released the new Administrative Review Guidance Manual, which includes four options that state agencies may use to assess compliance with Dietary Specifications – calories, saturated fat, and sodium – requirements. 

Letter to Households: Notification of Selection for Verification of Eligibility

Questions and Answers on HINI Influenza in the following areas: general,  certification and issuance of food instruments, and allowable costs.

We are encouraging all WIC state agencies to add the Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General hotline website to all WIC food instruments or their accompanying folders or sleeves.

The attached letter and Opt-In Notice, issued by the FNS food distribution division team, provide information needed for state-level staff responsible for the school food distribution program and/or child nutrition food program to apply for supplemental FY 2013 SAE reallocation funds.

During today's webinar, we're going to be talking about the implementation grant for the Farm to School grant program. We'll start by giving some background information on Farm to School in general. We'll talk about today's topic specifically, the implementation grant track of the grant program. We'll review the scoring, how the proposals are scored, the budget and match, the registration process, the forms and the format, and then I'll review some resources that are available to you all as you prepare your application before we get into the questions.

This webinar will discuss the Farm to School grant program and specifically talk about details about the planning grant track.