On Monday, March 18, the White House released an addendum to the 2020 President’s Budget Request. The addendum includes school nutrition program eligibility verification and the Community Eligibility Provision.
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A Subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing last Tuesday examining federal Child Nutrition Programs. Members of the Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee heard testimony from four witnesses, two of them SNA members, about the importance of Child Nutrition programs, specifically the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
USDA has released new resources to help tackle unpaid meal charges, including updated fact sheets and communication strategies and payment methods that can help support students and parents.
Last week, FNS posted a memo with instructions and reporting guidance for state agencies using form FNS-640 to report SY 2017-18 Administrative Review data. The memo also extended the reporting deadline to May 1, 2019, due to delays caused by the government shutdown and system development schedules.
In a Federal Register notice, FNS announced it is seeking comment on a revision to its estimate of burden hours for recordkeeping requirements for State Administrative Expenses. FNS has reduced its estimate by 25 total hours.
