| Nutrition Services Division |
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| To: Nutrition Program Sponsors |
Number: 05-102, 05-202, 05-700 |
| Attention: Food Program Director |
Date: February 2005 |
| Subject: EXTENSION OF POLICY EXCEPTION - Family Size and Income Determinations for Certain Military Families |
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| Reference: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Policy Memo SP 05-13, CACFP 05-05, SFSP 05-04; and Management Bulletins 02-105, 203, 708 and 03-111, 206, 704. | |
This Management Bulletin clarifies USDA's policy
about income eligibility for those households that include deployed
military personnel engaged in long-term military campaigns overseas.
The current policy exception established that deployed household
members would be included and counted as household members for
the determination of free or reduced price meal eligibility. It
also established that only that portion of the deployed service
members' income made available by them or on their behalf to the
household will be counted as income to the household. Additionally,
in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, should the child live
with the provider while the service member is deployed, the child
would not be considered a “provider's own” child.
This exception will remain in effect until legislation or additional
policy guidance supersedes it. Please share the attached information
with administrative staff responsible for processing eligibility
information.
If you have any questions, please contact your Nutrition Services Division representative in the Field Services Unit at 916-445-0850 or 800-952-5609. You may also contact Shirley Rhodes at 916-323-8521 or srhodes@cde.ca.gov.
Attachment
USDA SP Policy Memo 05-13, CACFP Policy Memo 05-05, SFSP Policy Memo 05-04 (DOC; 32KB; 2pp.)
