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The '''Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)''' provides supplementary [[United States Department of Agriculture|United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)]] food packages to the low-income elderly of at least 60 years of age.<ref name="factsheet">{{cite web|url=http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/csfp/programFactSheet-csfp.pdf|title=Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Fact Sheet|website=Food and Nutrition Service|accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/32850/PDF|title=The Role of the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) in Nutritional Assistance to Mothers, Infants, Children, and Seniors|website=The Urban Institute|accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref> It is one of the fifteen federally-funded nutrition assistance programs of the [[Food and Nutrition Service|Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)]], a USDA agency.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncsfpa.org/about/|title=What Is CSFP?|website=National CSFP Association|date=March 27, 2012 |accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref> The CSFP currently serves about 600,000 low‐income people every month.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.feedingamerica.org/take-action/advocate/federal-hunger-relief-programs/csfp-program-overview.pdf|title=Commodity Supplemental Food Program|website=Feeding America|accessdate=19 August 2016}}</ref> | The '''Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)''' provides supplementary [[United States Department of Agriculture|United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)]] food packages to the low-income elderly of at least 60 years of age.<ref name="factsheet">{{cite web|url=http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/csfp/programFactSheet-csfp.pdf|title=Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Fact Sheet|website=Food and Nutrition Service|accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/32850/PDF|title=The Role of the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) in Nutritional Assistance to Mothers, Infants, Children, and Seniors|website=The Urban Institute|accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref> It is one of the fifteen federally-funded nutrition assistance programs of the [[Food and Nutrition Service|Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)]], a USDA agency.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncsfpa.org/about/|title=What Is CSFP?|website=National CSFP Association|date=March 27, 2012 |accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref> The CSFP currently serves about 600,000 low‐income people every month.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.feedingamerica.org/take-action/advocate/federal-hunger-relief-programs/csfp-program-overview.pdf|title=Commodity Supplemental Food Program|website=Feeding America|accessdate=19 August 2016}}</ref> | ||