This is the fifth in a series of annual reports that examines administrative error incurred during the local educational agency’s (LEA) approval process of applications for free and reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
This report responds to the legislative requirement of PL 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of state and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals. Under direct certification, children are determined eligible for free school meals without the need for household applications by using data from other means-tested programs.
The designated FY 2011 national target areas for management evaluation reviews are listed.
We are in the process of updating Form FNS-44, Report of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, to reflect the recent expansion of the At-Risk portion of the CACFP. Very soon we will begin working with a contractor to make the new form available in the Food Program Reporting System.
The Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 requires all federal agencies to calculate the amount of erroneous payments in federal programs and to periodically conduct detailed assessments of vulnerable program components.
The purpose of this memorandum is to remind entities that the third ARRA reporting period begins on April 1, 2010, to update and summarize certain guidance that entities must use when reporting TEFAP ARRA data.
The Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 requires all federal agencies to calculate the amount of erroneous payments in federal programs and to periodically conduct detailed assessments of vulnerable program components. This is the fourth wave of a program assessment of the family day care homes in the Department of Agriculture's CACFP.
This is the fourth in a series of annual reports that examines administrative error incurred during the local educational agency’s approval process of applications for free and reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program.
FNS held a webinar to train regional personnel to conduct reviews of data submitted by TEFAP Reporting Entities pursuant to Section 1512 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.