LRD guides and handbook June 2020

State support and coronavirus - a trade union guide

Chapter 4

Universal Credit and free school meals

[ch 4: page 43]

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).