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USDA Issues New Plan for Funding During Government Shutdown

1/9/2019

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USDA issued a new plan to distribute funding for the Child and Adult Care Food Program and other federal food programs during the government shut down.  As per USDA, “States already have funding to cover CN program operations for the month of January (approximately $2.1 billion) on the basis of the last continuing resolution. This week, we will provide an additional two months’ worth of funding, consistent with the standard practice of funding these programs on a quarterly basis.” 

USDA has issued memos covering the funding:  Update on Funds Available for the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, Child Nutrition Programs:   https://www.cacfp.org/files/8715/4704/0396/CNfundsmemo.pdf
Unfortunately, Federal government workers remain unpaid.  As this shutdown continues, the family budgets of many Federal government works are stretched to the breaking point.  We hope the Federal workers are paid soon.

USDA Plans for the food programs include:
Child Nutrition Programs
  • For these programs, including school meals and the Child and Adult Care Food Program, States already have funding to cover CN program operations for the month of January (approximately $2.1 billion) on the basis of the last continuing resolution.
  • This week, we will provide an additional two months’ worth of funding, consistent with the standard practice of funding these programs on a quarterly basis.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
  • States will need to take action to issue February benefits on or before January 20, 2019.  We will be reaching out to States to instruct them to request early issuance of SNAP benefits for February. States will have until January 20 to implement this early issuance.
Supplemental Nutrition and Safety Programs
  • For WIC, FNS has identified resources to cover projected State expenditures for February.  The agency will allocate at least $248 million to State agencies this week, and we have identified an additional $350 million in unspent prior year funds to allocate at a later date.  A total of approximately $600 million in funding will be provided to WIC State agencies. We will continue to work with States to make resources available to the extent possible.

The USDA memo can be found here:
https://www.cacfp.org/files/8715/4704/0396/CNfundsmemo.pdf
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1 Comment
Marguerite Kaiser link
2/11/2019 08:39:53 am

In regards to "available funding" through March for CACFP. Does that mean funding for meals served in February, but reimbursed in March or.....are meals served in March safe for reimbursement in April????
Please clarify.
Marguerite

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