FNS Documents & Resources

We regularly collect information about the school meal programs and how they operate from the people who know best – the state agencies that oversee the programs in each state and territory and the school food authorities that manage the programs locally in one or more schools. 

This is a reinstatement, with change, of a previously approved collection for which approval has expired.

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is pleased to approve the Nevada Department of Human Services' request to operate a novel demonstration project to amend the statutory definition of food for purchase by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients.

We are pleased to approve the Kansas Department for Children and Families' request to operate a novel demonstration project to amend the statutory definition of food for purchase by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients.

We are pleased to approve the Wyoming Department Family Services' request to operate a novel demonstration project to amend the statutory definition of food for purchase by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients.

We are pleased to approve the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' request to operate a novel demonstration project to amend the statutory definition of food for purchase by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients.

In this letter, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service urges state agencies to strengthen program integrity in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by implementing robust oversight, training, and monitoring measures to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse.

Fiscal year 2026 food and administrative funding for The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

This notice informs the public of the annual adjustments to the reimbursement rates for meals served in the Summer Food Service Program.