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Resource | Guidance Documents Group and Family Day Care Homes

As promised at the National Summer Food Service Program and Child and Adult Care Food Program Conference in Baltimore, this memorandum provides a re-statement of the FNS policy regarding the definition of group and family day care homes in the CACFP.

 

05/02/1994
Resource | Guidance Documents SNAP Quality Control Review Handbook - Clarification of Procedures Regarding the Transmission/Release of Case Finding

This memorandum provides clarification of changes made to Section 1240 - Transmission/Release of Active Case Findings to FNS, Data Checking, and Changing Case Findings and Section 13 70 - Transmission of Negative Case Findings to FNS, Data Checking and Changing Case Findings in the October 2017 edition of the FNS Quality Control Review Handbook 310.

01/31/2018
Resource | Guidance Documents Applicability of PL 103-227 to CACFP

Among the provisions of Pro-Children Act of 1994 are those which forbid smoking within any indoor facility owned, leased or contracted for the provision of regular or routine health care or day care or early childhood development services to children.

12/09/1994
Resource | Guidance Documents FNS Instruction 776-3 Rev. 2: Eligibility of Individuals Over 12 Years of Age With Mental or Physical Disabilities in Child Care Facilities Participating in the CACFP

This Instruction provides guidelines for determining the eligibility of individuals over 12 years of age with mental or physical disabilities in child care facilities under the CACFP. Note, individuals above age 18 years with mental or physical disabilities are also eligible for participation in adult day care centers participating in the CACFP.

11/21/1991
Resource | Guidance Documents FNS Instruction 776-8: Eligibility of Proprietary Title XX Centers

This instruction is intended to clarify our policy concerning the participation of proprietary Title XX centers as stipulated in the Child Care Food Program regulations.

08/08/1986
Resource | Guidance Documents Changes to the CACFP as Mandated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 amends a number of provisions in the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act. This letter provides implementation guidance on the provisions contained in PL 104-193 which affect the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

01/27/1997
Resource | Guidance Documents FNS Instruction 776-7: Eligibility of Schools and Institutions to Participate in School Nutrition Programs

Occasionally, applications for participation in the School Nutrition Programs may be received from organizations that do not clearly meet the definition of “school.”

06/06/1988
Resource | Guidance Documents Rescission of a Portion of PIRS Memo 85-05, Enhanced Funding for Food Stamp Investigations, and Prosecutions.

PIRS (Policy Interpretation Response System) Memo 85-05 deals primarily with funding aspects of state food stamp investigations, as its title indicates.

08/12/1988
Resource | Guidance Documents Verification of Certification Webinar Frequently Ask Questions

Verification of certification webinar frequently asked questions.

11/23/2016
Resource | Policy Policy Clarifications for Administering the SNAP Employment and Training Programs

This memorandum identifies and clarifies several statutory and regulatory requirements that state agencies operating mandatory E&T programs must implement to ensure adequate protections for SNAP applicants and recipients as well as proper administration of the program.

01/19/2017
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