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This website provides information on the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), which provides funding for free meals to students during the summer months when school is out.
This June 2014 memo (USDA Memo SP 51-2014) provides information about the date of eligibility for free school meal or milk benefits for students in temporary housing as well as details about forgiveness of meal/milk debts.
Hunger Solutions New York has useful links and information about emergency food programs in all areas of New York State.
This guidance memo from the USDA makes it clear that many students have “categorical eligibility” for free meals, including homeless children and youth.
The Food and Nutrition Service issued this memo (USDA Memo SP 11-2014) on December 3, 2013, to explain how school districts can pinpoint the date on which a student is eligible for free school meals.
To help students in temporary housing get free school meals, the McKinney-Vento liaison may fill out the Free and Reduced Price School Meals Application on behalf of the family.
FRAC is a national organization with information about free school meals, SNAP, and other nutrition support programs for low-income families and children.
In New York, the Summer Food Service Program is administered in New York by the State Education Department (NYSED). It funds free meals for students during the summer months when school is out.
