This information varies based on your state regulations. Contact your state agency for more detailed information. Verification efforts are not required:
•For children who have been certified under direct certification procedures including children documented as eligible migrant, runaway, homeless, or foster.
•For children in Residential Child Care Institutions (RCCIs) with the exception of day students.
•In schools where Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) has approved special cash assistance claims based on economic statistics regarding per capita income, such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
•In schools that only participate in the Special Milk Program (SMP).
•In schools where all children are served with no separate charge for food service and no special cash assistance is claimed (i.e., non-pricing programs claiming only the paid rate of reimbursement).
•In LEAs where all schools participate in Provision 1, 2, or 3 except in those years in which applications are taken for all students in attendance (i.e., the base year).