Coordinated Review Effort CRE

1
Coordinated Review Effort (CRE)

• Three main areas that will cost a system money
• Eligibility Documentation
• Production Records
• Meal Counting Claiming

2
Eligibility Documentation

• Policy Statement each year
• Complete Meal Application on every child that is
  in the free and reduced-price categories
• Follow steps to process applications verify
  income information
• Regular maintenance of rosters current
  applications

3
Productions Records Must Include

• Required information to justify menu was served
  in proper portions sizes
• Descriptive information of food items used
  recipe numbers, amounts of food used, type of
  product and the product if more than one like
  product on the bid
• Actual count of students served

4
Meal Counting Claiming

• All meal counting and claiming systems MUST
• Provide an accurate count
• Be taken at the point of service
• Be daily
• Provide number of reimbursable meals served
• Be by category (free, reduced-price, paid)
• Be without overt identification

5
Collection Procedure

• How students pay for meals and how tickets,
  tokens, IDs, or numbers are exchanged for a meal
• A ticket, an identification number or roster with
  students names must be coded
• A current roster must be available at point of
  service

Suzy Q
3 lunches
Joe Blow
6
The Point of Service Meal Count Procedure must
include

• Reimbursable meals
• By type
• Each day, and
• Without identifying students eligibility category

7
Reimbursable Meals

• Meet meal pattern requirements for components and
  amounts
• A meal is counted as either free reduced-price,
  or paid and counted each day
• Be a procedure that does not identify the
  students category

8
Internal Controls

• Second party review of all consolidations of meal
  accounts
• Complete edit checks for potential over claims
• Local review at a minimum of one time per year

9
Edits Checks
Local-level Requirement Part 210.8
(a)(2) ---compare each schools daily counts of
free, reduced price, and paid lunches against the
number of children in the school currently
eligible for free, reduced-price and
paidcomparison must be made for each days count.