Editing Food and Nutrition Service (section)

{{Short description|U.S. federal anti-hunger agency}}
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| chief1_name     = Tameka Owens<ref>{{cite web |title=FNS National Office |url=https://www.fns.usda.gov/fns-national-office |website=U.S. Department of Agriculture |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref>
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| parent_agency   = [[United States Department of Agriculture]]
| child1_agency   = [[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]] (SNAP), <br /> [[National School Lunch Program]] (NSLP), <br /> [[School Breakfast Program]] (SBP), <br /> [[Special Milk Program]] (SMP), <br /> [[Summer Food Service Program]] (SFSP), <br /> [[Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children]] (WIC), <br /> Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), <br /> Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP), <br /> [[Child and Adult Care Food Program]] (CACFP), <br /> Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), <br /> [[The Emergency Food Assistance Program]] (TEFAP), <br /> Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), <br /> Food Assistance for Disaster Relief (FADR), <br /> Nutrition Assistance Block Grants, including [[Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico]], [[Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program]] (FFVP)
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The '''Food and Nutrition Service''' ('''FNS''') is an agency of the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA). The FNS is the federal agency responsible for administering the nation’s domestic nutrition assistance programs. The service helps to address the issue of [[hunger in the United States]].

FNS administers the programs through its headquarters in [[Alexandria, VA]]; regional offices in [[San Francisco]], [[Denver]], [[Dallas]], [[Chicago]], [[Atlanta]], [[Boston]], and [[Robbinsville Township, New Jersey|Robbinsville]] (NJ); and field offices throughout the US. While its staff number is among the USDA's fewest, its budget is by far the largest.

The Food and Nutrition Service is funded under the umbrella of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the annual Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naco.org/resources/maintain-funding-usda-rural-development-programs-3|title=Maintain Funding for USDA Rural Development Programs|date=February 28, 2019|first=Arthur|last=Scott|website=NACo|language=en|access-date=2019-10-09}}</ref> In 2019, $27 billion was allocated for discretionary funding for USDA, which is spread out over many services including WIC, food safety, and other services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.obpa.usda.gov/budsum/fy2020budsum.pdf|title=FY 2020 Budget Summary}}</ref> Of the expected people to be served in 2019, the estimate for SNAP recipients is 40.8 million, 30 million to have received school lunches, 15 million to have received school breakfast, 6.6 million participating in WIC, and 690,000 elderly people receiving Commodity Supplemental Food Program.