Question: How much money do you have to make per year to be eligible for free school lunches?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): temporary extension of free school meals eligibility to NRPF groups
section_headers: Who is eligible
Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights
section_content: Article 8 states that everyone has the right to respect for his private and
family life, his home and his correspondence.
Carers with leave to remain under article 8 are able to work, and as such are
subject to a maximum annual household earnings threshold of £7,400 in order
for their child to be eligible to receive free school meals.
See confirming household income for further guidance on assessing this.
Suggested evidence
You should ask families to sign a self-declaration form as part of their
application for free school meals. A sample application
form including a self-declaration is available, but you can use an
alternative if you prefer.
Carers who have leave to remain under article 8 will be able to provide a
letter from the Home Office granting them leave to remain in the UK and/or a
biometric residence card.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Clearly states the maximize earnings threshold to be eligible for free lunch.
This answer satisfies the question because it talks abuot the cut off limit for how much you can make before you are deemed inelligible.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
section_headers: National voucher scheme
section_content: As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to
make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that
are eligible for free school meals who are staying at home.
Arranging food parcels helps ensure that eligible children have access to a
healthy free meal, and can also help the school to stay in contact with those
families. We know that many schools have made excellent food parcel
arrangements throughout this period.
If your school catering service cannot provide meals or food parcels for
children who are at home, you can continue to offer vouchers to families of
eligible pupils.
Before ordering vouchers, check which pupils are eligible and would be
receiving benefits-related free school meals.
We are monitoring voucher orders at school level to broadly check if they are
ordering in line with our estimates of the number of eligible children,
recognising that for some schools this will be lower if they are providing
food parcels, or using a local arrangement. If a school’s orders are higher
than expected, we may speak to the school about why this has occurred and will
take forward any necessary action to rectify the position. A cross check will
also be done for those making a claim for free school meals funding via the
financial support available for
schools.
For any voucher queries, please email:

freeschoolmeals@edenred.com for schools
freeschoolmealsparentscarers@edenred.com for parents and carers


Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has general information about school lunch vouchers but doesn't specify the income cutoff.
This answer is bad because it talks about school re-openings and monitoring food vouchers.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
section_headers: Free school meal eligibility
section_content: You should continue to accept and verify free school meal applications. The
eligibility criteria for free school meals can be found at apply for free
school meals.
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we are temporarily extending free
school meals eligibility to include some groups who have no recourse to public
funds (NRPF).
This temporary extension covers both children who are attending school and who
are at home.
See guidance for the temporary extension of free school meals eligibility to
NRPF groups for more information.
Pupils who attend a breakfast provision
We are committed to supporting schools and their pupils who would usually
benefit from the DfE breakfast programme.
If you’re on the programme, you will have received an email from the National
School Breakfast Programme about children who would normally receive a healthy
breakfast at school.
You can choose to support eligible children in the way which works best for
them, this could include:

running breakfast provision in school for children who are attending
families collecting food parcels
delivering breakfast food parcels to families

The breakfast food parcels should be arranged alongside the school’s wider
support for children on benefits-related free school meals, and schools must
follow Public Health England’s advice on social distancing at all times.
[NRPF]: no recourse to public funds
  [DfE]: Department for Education

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has information about the free lunch program, but doesn't give a specific income threshold.
This answer is bad because it talks about guidelines to follow giving the free meals.

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