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RELEASE: School Meal Household Applications and Media Release Prototypes - English Version

" June 1, 2022 - The NSLP/SMP household applications for School Year 2022 -2023 were released in English. Spanish versions are coming soon.
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June 1, 2022 - The following School Nutrition Program (SNP)-related forms have been released and posted. Note that the Nondiscrimination Statement (NDS) has been updated in each of these documents per USDA’s recent guidance. TDA is still awaiting a Spanish version of the NDS – as such, the Spanish versions of the below documents will be posted at a later date. All below documents can be found in the Forms table at: https://squaremeals.org/Programs/NationalSchoolLunchProgram/NSLPAdministrationamp;Forms.aspx

School Meal Applications:

2022-2023 Standard (Multi-Child) Application for Free and Reduced-Price School Meals (English version only)
2022-2023 Multi-Use Application for Free and Reduced-Price School Meals (English version only)
2022-2023 Multi-Child Application for Free and Reduced-Price School Meals (Nonpublic School Version) (English version only)
2022-2023 Application Directions (English version only)
2022-2023 Application Letter to the Household for Free and Reduced-Price School Meals (English version only)

Media Releases:

Standard Media Release Prototype
Media Release Prototype – Provision 2
Media Release Prototype - CEP

(NOTE: The documents listed above can also be accessed at: https://squaremeals.org/Programs/NationalSchoolLunchProgram/EligibilityandVerification/HouseholdApplications.aspx

Additionally, the following Special Milk Program documents have been released and posted at: http://squaremeals.org/Programs/SpecialMilkProgram/SMPAdministrationamp;Forms.aspx

2022-2023 Multi-Child Application for Free Milk (English version only)
2022-2023 Application Directions (English version only)
2022-2023 Application Letter to the Household for Free Milk (English version only)
SMP Media Release (English version only)

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