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As of October 2024, states in the contiguous United States which serve lunches through the NSLP receive federal reimbursements at rates of $0.42 per full price meal, $4.03 per reduced price meal (meals which for which students cannot be charged more than 40 cents), [24] and $4.43 per free meal. An additional $0.02 per meal served in a school ...
The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 United States federal law that created the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to provide low-cost or free school lunch meals to qualified students through subsidies to schools. [1]
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–296 (text)) is a federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 13, 2010. The law is part of the reauthorization of funding for child nutrition (see the original Child Nutrition Act). It funded child nutrition programs and free lunch programs in schools for 5 years. [1]
As a result, the expanded funding for free school lunches was not included in the latest $1.5 trillion government spending bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11.
Before March 2020, children in families whose incomes were at or below 130% of the federal poverty level were eligible for free school meals, while those in families whose incomes were 130% to 185 ...
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Since January 2015, the Scottish government has provided free school meals for all children in Primary One to Three. [98] Similar schemes are in place for Wales and Northern Ireland. The British government uses entitlement to free school meals as a measure of deprivation. For the financial year 2014–2015, the government paid schools a premium ...
A federal waiver that made school breakfasts and lunches free to students regardless of their family’s income is set to expire June 30.