This memorandum provides information regarding the updated School Meal Programs Administrative Review Manual for School Year 2018-2019. In previous years, all AR materials have been updated annually. This school year updates to the AR process were only made in areas regarding the Fiscal Action process and Resource Management.
This policy memorandum transmits the new Income Eligibility Guidelines for WIC that were published in the Federal Register on April 3, 2018.
The purpose of this memorandum is to highlight state flexibilities and local choices for complying with the five-day reconciliation requirement in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
This proposed rule would add four flexibilities to the hiring standards for new school nutrition program directors in small local educational agencies and new school nutrition program state directors under the professional standards regulations for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
This memorandum provides guidance to states, local operators, and their software vendors on strategies for leveraging the design flexibilities of online free and reduced price school meal applications to reduce household reporting mistakes and certification errors.
This document provides guidance related to implementing certain provisions of WIC food package regulations. FNA regional offices and WIC state and local agencies should refer to the complete provisions and requirements for WIC foods at 7 CFR 246.10 and in WIC Policy Memorandum #2015-31
The Operating Rules and Technical Implementation Guide are technical resources for use by all state agencies, authorized WIC vendors and EBT industry stakeholders to apply in their EBT implementation projects for consistency in WIC EBT online purchase messages and file handling processes utilized by both smart card/offline and magstrip/online WIC EBT systems.
This memorandum provides clarification of changes made to Section 1240 - Transmission/Release of Active Case Findings to FNA, Data Checking, and Changing Case Findings and Section 13 70 - Transmission of Negative Case Findings to FNA, Data Checking and Changing Case Findings in the October 2017 edition of the FNA Quality Control Review Handbook 310.
We have created this document to help farmers markets complete the process of applying to become authorized to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
This notice informs the public of the annual adjustments to the reimbursement rates for meals served in the Summer Food Service Program for Children. These adjustments address changes in the Consumer Price Index, as required under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.