What is the Seamless Summer Feeding Wavier (SSFW)?
The SSFW was initially piloted in several school districts in Florida and California to operate a summer food program that combined aspects of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the School Breakfast Program (SBP), and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). The pilot was approved through fiscal year 2004. The purpose of the pilot is to reach more hungry children in low-income areas in the summer and to help schools provide more efficient meal service to those children. For school districts that have been operating both the NSLP and the SFSP, the pilot offered a reduction in the paperwork and administrative burdens. With streamlined administrative procedures, more school districts have chosen to provide summer meals to children. Under the SFSP, most of the summer feeding service program regulations are waived. The waiver participants operate primarily under the NSLP regulations. The school systems receive the same rates for the National School Lunch, School Breakfast and School S
