free school meals for your children if you are in the UK. For low income families it has been a life saver. However recent news headlines suggest in 2019 312 MP’s voted and want free meals scrapped from 1 million children.
Strange how UK MP’s salaries increase in April 2019 and go up from £74,962 to £76,011. The money has to come from somewhere to pay MP’s. yet are they out of touch with real families and single parents struggling to cope with poverty. Only this week news on Facebook stated schools noticed more dirty and hungry children coming to school.
What impact will this have on these hungry children if the school meals they get free will be abolished full stop. full article can be seen here on this link lets stop free school meals
Can you claim free dinners
So Do you think you are entitled to free school meals ? lets see how to claim them whilst you still can?
Have you ever applied ? if not lets talk you through what you need to do to qualify.
Your child may be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following:
Income Support
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
income-related Employment and Support Allowance
support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
Universal Credit – if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)
free for Infants – school Reception, Years 1 and 2
All children get free school meals if they are in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.
1.Getting started .. if you don’t have access to the internet your local library can assist you. To claim go on the government website and put in your postcode to bring up your local gov website.
2. fill in the form online.
what type of meals do they offer
after studying the online menus for Nursery infant and junior . especially children’s school dinners here is a list of a typical menu they offer
1.jacket potato beans salad cake and custard.
2.Beef chilli, vegetable biryani or shepherds pie apple crumble custard
3.chicken wraps cheesecake shortbread biscuits
4. lamb and mint pie potato wedges jelly cream
5.jacket tuna banana mouse
Teenagers at high school
teenagers that get free school meals get a rough deal. by the way they have an allowance of £2.25 a day. next they use a finger print system to get the free school dinners. furthermore they find they cannot get a lot. So parents subsidies an extra 10-15 pound a week so they get something more substantial. Or take in a packed lunch and use the allowance to get a snack or breakfast instead.