Eligibility & Verification
A manual that provides all guidance and answers about eligibility and verification provided by USDA.
What is the Eligibility Manual?
This is an online library of the State Agency resources, forms, and trainings.
What is NSLP Central?
Content limits of this substance will occur as of July 1, 2025 for breakfast cereals, yogurts, and flavored milk.
What is Sugar?
An LEA policy which requires a triennial assessment by a committee and stakeholders with publicly posted results.
What is a Local Wellness Policy?
Allowing adequate time for students to eat their school lunch.
What is Seat Time?
Students' eligibility status is organized by assistance program or applications using this ranking system.
What is Eligibility Hierarchy?
Sessions provided by a local government organization with education and information on regulations; providing directors knowledge of all the National School Lunch Program and Administrative Reviews requirements.
What is State Agency Trainings?
Weekly sugar limits of the SBP and NSLP must be implemented by this school year.
What is SY27-28?
The number of hours kitchen managers must complete of professional standards training.
What is 10 hours?
Access to breakfast once the school day starts to reach more students who may be coming to school hungry.
What is Breakfast After the Bell?
An assistance program which can provide free and reduced meals to students only through Direct Certification. Case numbers from households cannot be accepted.
What is Medicaid?
The two areas of the Administrative Review tied to fiscal action.
What is Standard I (Eligibility/Meal Counting & Claiming) and Standard II (Meal Pattern)?
This salty substance will be limited by 15% as of July 1, 2027.
What is Sodium?
The maximum allowance of ounces high school students can be sold during school of a carbonated or flavored beverage with 10 calories or less.
What is 20 oz.?
Promotion, education, and service of local agricultural products in school meals. Events include Apple Crunch and Squash Summer Hunger.
What is Farm to Fork?
A federal program Indigenous peoples must apply to and currently live on reservation land to receive free meals.
What is FDPIR? (Food Distribution Programs on Indigenous Reservations)
The incident of State Agency Reviewers closing a review without corrective action, also believed to be a myth by school nutrition directors.
What is an Administrative Review with no findings? Or What is a Perfect Review?
This food component can count toward total breakfast grain requirements without 1 oz. minimum grain served with the meal.
What is Meat/Meat Alternative?
The process in which a school meal program tracks, keeps documentation, and procures domestic food products.
What is Buy American?
Organizations like Dairy West, No Kid Hungry, Department of Health and Human Services, local businesses, and other organizations who share the common goal of feeding kids.
What are Community Stakeholders and Partners?
The second review of an application other than the determining official, before notifying the household of verifying their application.
What is a Confirmation Review?
This is a form that can be used to check compliance at individual sites of a school nutrition program and aligns with Administrative Review compliance.
What is a Site Monitoring Form?
This amount of subgroups of vegetables must be offered if substituting fruit at breakfast service.
What is two vegetable subgroups?
The two areas in which annual public outreach and notice must be conducted of these two programs.
What is School Breakfast Program and Seamless Summer Option?
An under-utilized recognition award in Utah which celebrates school nutrition programs that have made improvements to the nutritional quality of their school meals. Sevier School District is the only Utah recipient.
What is the Health Meals Incentives?