CACFP Updates for 10/19/2018: Beef Recall; Farm to School Grants: USDA Recipes; ICAVES Error; October CIL
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FY 2019 Bureau Updates - October 19, 2018 Past and current Bureau Updates are posted here. It may take a few days for this bulletin to be posted.
Beef Recall Update This recall is for raw beef items including ground beef. The original recall has been expanded to include Sam's Club locations in Iowa. If you purchased any raw beef products from Sam's Club you may want to check your labels. Click here for updated information. Click here to see: 085-2018, JBS Tolleson, Inc. Recalls Raw Beef Products Due to Possible Salmonella Newport Contamination (Oct. 4, 2018) Farm to School (and CACFP) Grants The FY 2019 USDA Farm to School Grant Request for Applications (RFA) is available! Grants are designed to expand farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools and certain child care organizations. Click here for more details. The application deadline is December 4, 2018. Awards are up to $100,000 for Implementation Grants and $50,000 for Planning & Training Grants A FY 2019 Farm to School Training & Curricula Request for Proposals (RFP) is also available. This RFP process will establish one or more Cooperative Agreements with one or more organizations to create a producer-focused training curriculum designed to build producer capacity to launch or expand farm to school efforts. The contracted organization(s) will also conduct and evaluate “train the trainer” style trainings on how to use the curriculum. Click here for more details. The application deadline is November 26, 2018. Up to $2,000,000 is available for the Cooperative Agreement(s). USDA Standardized Recipes for 25-100 Standardized recipes for use in schools and CACFP are available here. Although grain-based desserts are included, they are not creditable as grains. If the item contains fruit, it may credit toward the fruit component if it contains at least 1/8 cup per serving.
ICAVES Error An error has been identified in the new web-based Income Calculation and Verification Spreadsheet (ICAVES). We recommend you recheck income applications approved from June 2018 through October 2018 using the ICAVES website that were close to the cut-offs for free and reduced-price meals (flagged error-prone). Examples: when weekly income is $520 and family size is three ICAVES Web showed the family eligible for reduced-price meals but should have been free. For reduced-price, if the weekly income is $740 and family size is three ICAVES Web showed the family as denied but should have been reduced-price. The same error applied for all frequencies and household sizes, resulting in some families to now be eligible for higher benefits (reduced-price or free) rather then denied or reduced-price. This may have produced one or more under claims for June through October claims. If you find errors, change the income determination on the income eligibility form. Date and initial the correction and indicate it was due to an ICAVES error (do not use whiteout or completely cross out the prior determination). Update the Summary of Free and Reduced-price Meals and submit revised claims if you wish. The last date to submit upward adjustments for July is October 29. The last date to submit and upward adjustment for August is December 31. If you submit a revised June claim, it will result in an error; contact Robin.Holz@iowa.gov for assistance. The ICAVES Web error should be corrected by early next week and is available here. If you correct an income application submitted in June, click here to select the ICAVES Web for fiscal year 2018. A link to ICAVES web is also in Download Forms Form ID CACFP015 and on the Department of Education's CACFP website (click the ICAVES ICON). October Cash-in-lieu of Commodities Payment Cash-in-lieu of commodities (CIL) is an additional .235 cents added to each CACFP lunch and supper claimed. The money to pay CIL on September claims for reimbursement processed this week fell short of calculated payments. We were able to pay 52.9% of the CIL amount due for the claims submitted in October for September. We anticipate the remainder of the CIL funding to eventually be available, but it may take a couple months before it can be paid out. The CIL for future claims starting with October 2018 (submitted in November) will not be affected.
Robin Holz, MS, RDN
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