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" School Food Authorities with a positive or zero balance in their nonprofit school food service account as of June 30, 2024, are exempt from PLE pricing requirements for SY 2025-2026 per the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2025. This exemption is reflected in USDA policy memo SP 12-2025, Paid Lunch Equity: Guidance for School Year 2025-2026, released May 14, 2025
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School Food Authorities (SFAs) with a positive or zero balance in their nonprofit school food service account as of June 30, 2024, are exempt from PLE pricing requirements for SY 2025-2026 per the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2025. This exemption is reflected in USDA policy memo SP 12-2025, Paid Lunch Equity: Guidance for School Year 2025-2026, released May 14, 2025.
As such, an SFA with a zero or positive fund balance as of June 30, 2024, has two options:
• Complete and apply the SY 2025-2026 PLE calculation to the SFA’s meal pricing structure. If a SFA chooses this option, the SFA will adjust meal prices as appropriate to the PLE calculation. The CE must retain the completed PLE calculation tool and other documentation demonstrating how the CE determined the meal prices to be charged; or
• Choose not to complete and not to apply the SY 2025-2026 PLE calculation. If the SFA chooses this option, the SFA may increase meal prices, but is not required to do so. The SFA must retain financial documentation that demonstrates the SFA has reconciled all costs incurred and income received through June 30, 2024, and determined that it has a zero or positive fund balance. If the SFA chooses to increase meal prices, the SFA needs to retain documentation demonstrating the amount of the price increase.
Please note that TDA recommends all SFAs perform the PLE calculation each year and retain all related documentation as information recorded in the calculation tool may be helpful if the SFA does not qualify for an exemption in the future.
More information on PLE is available in the Administrator’s Reference Manual, Section 19, Meal Pricing. .
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1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
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