State support and coronavirus - a trade union guide (June 2020)

Chapter 4

Universal Credit and free school meals

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The government introduced means testing for free school meal entitlement for children in Year 3 and above from April 2018. Families on Universal Credit are no longer entitled to free school meals if their parents earn more than £7,400 a year from work (after tax and not including any benefits).


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