Summer Food Service Program

Administration: Policy

The memoranda posted here represent policy that affects the Summer Food Service Program nationally.

2008

Code	Title	Date
09-2008	Automatic Eligibility for Early Head Start Participants	08/05/2008
08-2008	Simplified Acquisition Threshold	07/03/2008
07-2008	Emergency Operation of the SFSP in Areas of the Midwest Affected by Severe Flooding	06/19/2008
06-2008	Automatic Eligibility for Free Meal Benefits Extended to All Children Enrolled in Head Start	05/16/2008
05-2008	Rebates from the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008	03/26/2008
04-2008	Sharing Income Eligibility Information between Child Nutrition Programs	02/15/2008
03-2008	Simplified Procedures in the Summer Food Service Program	02/14/2008
02-2008	SFSP 2008 Reimbursement Rates (Notice)	01/30/2008
01-2008	Nationwide Expansion of SFSP Simplified Cost Accounting Procedures	01/02/2008

2007

09-2007	Food Service Management Company Contracts	07/27/2007
08-2007	Operation of Child Nutrition Programs during a Pandemic	06/11/2007
07-2007	Electronic Record and Reporting Systems	06/15/2007
06-2007	Update on Electronic Transactions in the Child Nutrition Programs	05/01/2007
05-2007	Area Eligibility Duration in the SFSP	04/20/2007
04-2007	Migrant Site Eligibility Determinations	02/23/2007
03-2007	Permanent Agreements for All SFSP Sponsors	02/23/2007
02-2007	SFSP 2007 Reimbursement Rates	01/29/2007
01-2007	Exceptions to Approving Sponsors Prior to Program Operations (Update)	01/19/2007

2006

07-2006	U.S. Armed Forces Family Supplemental Subsistence Allowance – Permanently Excluded from Income Consideration for the Child Nutrition Programs	08/25/2006
05-2006	Summer Food Service Week Proclamation	04/05/2006
04-2006	2006 SFSP Handbooks	01/23/2006
02-2006	Treatment of Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance and National Flood Insurance Program payments in Income Eligibility Determinations for Food and Nutrition Service Programs	12/19/2005
01-2006	SFSP Rural Transportation Grants	10/29/2005

2005

	Simplified Summer Food Program. This transmittal memo provides the revised Questions & Answers	06/29/2005
01-2005	Simplified Summer Food Program. This memorandum provides guidance to the 20 designated States. Here is a copy of the letter issued to MWRO on Feb. 28, 2001, as referenced in the memo.	12/02/2004

2004

	Eligibility of Upward Bound Sites	05/26/2004
	Using Metropolitan Statistical Area Data for Determining Rural Administrative Reimbursements	03/26/2004
01-2004	Contract Requirements for School Sponsors	03/02/2004
	Outreach Strategies	02/04/2004

2003

	Revised 2000 Census Data	06/30/2003
	Effects of Bussing on Area Eligibility in the CACFP, the SFSP, NSLP	05/20/2003
	Using 2000 Census Data	05/05/2003
	Exception to the Requirement for First-Week Visits in the SFSP for Non-school Sponsors	04/22/2003
	Flexibility of Time Restrictions on Meal Service for 2003	04/22/2003
	USDA Sponsor Reviews Conducted in 2003	04/22/2003
	Exceptions to Approving Sponsors Prior to Program Operations	04/22/2003
	Field Trips in the SFSP	02/03/3003
	SFSP Waiver for Closed Enrolled Sites	11/17/2002

2002

	Follow up Questions on Upward Bound	05/03/2002
	Additional Sites Eligible for the Seamless Summer Feeding Waiver	03/13/2002
	Exceptions to Approving Sponsors Prior to Program Operations	03/07/2002
	Requirement for First-Week Visits in the SFSP for Non-school Sponsors	03/01/2002
	USDA Sponsor Reviews	03/01/2002
	Time Restrictions on Breakfast Meal Service	02/12/2002
	Categorical Eligibility for Upward Bound Sites	01/31/2002
	Flexibility of Time Restrictions on Meal Service	01/29/2002

2001

01/19/2001

2000

	Categorical Eligibility of Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act Participants in the SFSP	05/23/2000
	Authority for Sponsors to Combine Claims for Reimbursement	05/15/2000

1999

	Guidance on Tax Exempt Status for Churches in the CACFP & SFSP	09/29/1999
	Participation of Emergency Shelters Serving Homeless Children	03/30/1999
16-99	Continuous School Calendar and Year-Round SFSP	02/12/1999
17-99	“Mobile Feeding Sites” in Rural Areas	02/12/1999
18-99	Certifying Eligibility of Sites Serving American Indian or Alaska Native Children	02/12/1999
19-99	Small Resource Farmers and Gleaning	02/12/1999
	Supper Meal Service	02/02/1999

1998

08-99	Use of Other Programs’ Eligibility Information for Closed Enrolled Sites and Camps in the SFSP	12/17/1998
01-99	Sponsor and Site Application Requirements	12/4/1998
03-99	Issues Relating to Meal Service at Sites	12/4/1998

07-99	Meals Prepared in Schools and Permissible Use of Offer Versus Serve	12/4/1998
09-99	Meal Service to On-Track Students at Year-Round Sites	12/4/1998
10-99	Single, Permanent Agreements for School Food Authorities Administering the Child Nutrition Programs	12/4/1998
11-99	Certifying Eligibility of Sites Serving Migrant Children	12/4/1998
12-99	Time Restrictions for Meal Service at Migrant Sites	12/4/1998
13-99	Certifying Eligibility of National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) Sites to Participate in the SFSP	12/4/1998
	Implementation of Public Law 105-336	12/3/1998
10-98	Single, Permanent Agreement for School Food Authorities Administering the CNPs	05/01/1998
6-98	Waiver of Site Limits For Private Nonprofit Organization Sponsor	03/20/1998
4-98	Private Non-Profit Sponsors Procuring Meals from Commercial Food Service Management Companies	03/06/1998
3-98	SFSP Issues Relating to Meal Service at Sites	02/27/1998
2-98	Availability of School and Census Eligibility Data	02/24/1998
1-98	Sponsor and Site Application Requirements	02/10/1998

1997

Welfare Reform Advisory Memo #3: Changes To The
SFSP as Mandated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193)

1/27/1997

1996

Welfare Reform Advisory Memo # 1: Limitations on Reimbursement for Meals Served in the CACFP and the SFSP

8/13/1996

1995

	Registered Food Service Management Company (FSMC) Reports for the SFSP	9/26/1995
	Automatic Eligibility for Free Meals in the SFSP for Participants in the Head Start Program	8/25/1995

Last modified: 10/30/2008


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