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Report

2026 SUN Bucks Universal Benefits Applications
Processing and Verification Report

Nutrition Services Division

This report is for local educational agencies (LEA) to submit the required information regarding the processing and verification of Universal Benefits Applications (UBA) used to establish 2026 SUN Bucks eligibility. Reporting elements are essential to ensuring compliance with the oversight of the federal SUN Bucks program and determining LEA funding apportionments.

This report is only applicable to LEAs with sites participating in the National School Lunch (NSLP) and/or School Breakfast Program (SBP) and operating the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and/or Provision 2 (P2) in a non-base year.
LEAs with all NSLP/SBP-participating sites operating on Standard Counting and Claiming do not collect UBAs and therefore must not complete this UBA processing and verification report and will only complete the school food authority (SFA) Verification Collection Report in the Child Nutrition Information and Payment System (CNIPS) as part of the NSLP Meal Application verification reporting requirements.
Information submitted in this SUN Bucks Verification Report must only reflect UBAs processed and verified during the 2026 SUN Bucks eligibility period (July 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026), and must not include any data derived from Alternative Income Forms or NSLP meal applications.
Note: LEAs completing this report must still complete the SFA Verification Collection Report for the NSLP in CNIPS when the report opens in November 2026.
Duration:

The 2026 SUN Bucks UBA Processing and Verification Report will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Before beginning, please ensure that you have the following data available:
  • Total number of UBAs received, processed, and denied between July 1, 2025, and August 31, 2026, including the number of individual students represented in these UBAs.
  • Data from 2026 verification activities including:

      • sample size
      • verification results
      • UBAs verified for cause
      • UBAs directly verified
    Important Note: If you or your LEA were responsible for submitting 2026 UBA data to the Education Data Collection System for more than one district or charter school, you will complete separate reports for each LEA.

    All fields in this report must be completed unless noted otherwise.
    Questions:

    If you have questions regarding this report, please contact the SUN Bucks Team by email at SummerEBT@cde.ca.gov.
    To continue, select the Next button at the bottom of this screen.