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Free School Meals

Qualifying benefits

Free school meals are available to pupils in receipt of, or whose parents are in receipt of, one or more of the qualifying benefits:

• Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earning from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)
• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (with no Working Tax Credit) with an annual gross income of no more than £16,190
• Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for the four weeks after the person stops qualifying for Working Tax Credit)

Free School Meals links:

• Financial support (https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/education/financial-support/financial-support)
• Information about free school meals and milk (https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/education/school-meals/free-school-meals-and-milk)
• Changes to free school meal entitlement - universal credit rollout (https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/education/school-meals/free-school-meals-and-milk/changes-to-free-school-meal-entitlement)

Registering for free school meals

• Application Form (freeschoolmealsapplicationform.pdf (nottinghamshire.gov.uk)

Notts County Council Telephone: 0300 500 80 80 - Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm