Expanding Free School Meals for Children in Foster and Kinship Care.
This law expands the list of children who automatically qualify for free or reduced-price school meals without requiring a separate application. The changes primarily benefit children in foster care, those receiving adoption or guardianship assistance, and children being raised by grandparents or other relatives. Furthermore, eligibility for these meals will be transferred and extended by one year when a child in kinship care switches schools, providing crucial stability.
Key points
Automatic eligibility for free school meals is expanded to include more children in the welfare system and those receiving adoption subsidies.
Children living with grandparents or other relatives (kinship care) now qualify automatically for meal benefits.
Meal eligibility transfers seamlessly when a child moves to a new school district, and is extended by one year for children recently placed with a caregiver.
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