Notice 13 Mar 2025 usda, federal assistance, food service, schools, income eligibility, child nutrition, program guidelines

🥗Income Eligibility Guidelines for Child Nutrition Programs 2025 Update

This notice announces the Department's annual adjustments to the Income Eligibility Guidelines to be used in determining eligibility for free and reduced-price meals and free milk and Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer benefits for the period from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. These guidelines are used by schools, institutions, and facilities participating in the National School Lunch Program (and Commodity School Program), School Breakfast Program, Special Milk Program for Children, Child and Adult Care Food Program, Summer Food Service Program as well as States and Indian Tribal Organizations that administer the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program. The annual adjustments are required by section 9 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. The guidelines are intended to direct benefits to those children most in need and are revised annually to account for changes in the Consumer Price Index.

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Rule 24 Feb 2025 puerto rico, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, financial regulations, health facilities, telecommunications, fcc, virgin islands, libraries, schools, infants and children, broadband deployment, letters of credit, communications common carriers, internet, telephone

📡FCC Modifies Letters of Credit Requirements for Broadband Support

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (the Commission) makes targeted modifications to the requirements for letters of credit (LOCs) that recipients of Universal Service Fund (USF) high-cost support awarded through a competitive process must obtain.

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Compliance, Financial Assistance 16 Jan 2025 compliance, veterans, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, employment, loan programs-education, colleges and universities, grant programs-education, vocational education, education, claims, health care, conflict of interests, civil rights, travel and transportation expenses, armed forces, grant programs-veterans, loan programs-veterans, va regulations, manpower training programs, defense department, schools

🎓Post-9/11 VA Educational Assistance Regulations Overview

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations that govern VA's administration of educational assistance programs to implement the provisions of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010, which modified the manner in which payments of educational assistance are determined and expanded the types of programs students may pursue under the Post-9/11 GI Bill; section 1002 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009, which authorized the "Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship;" and a select number of provisions of the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017.

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