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Children in households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), and foster, homeless, migrant and runaway children can get free school meals without reporting household income. Or children can get free school meals if their household income is within the maximum income shown for their household size on the instructions.

Children in households participating in WIC may be eligible for free meals. Please fill out an application.

Do not fill out an Application for Educational Benefits if all of your children have been directly certified for Free School Meals. If only some of your children were directly certified, you can add your students to the letter that you receive from Nutrition Services and send a copy back to the District Service Center to apply for your children who were not directly certified.

Include yourself and all other people living in the household, related or not (such as grandparents, other relatives, or friends).

Yes. You or your children do not have to be U.S. citizens for your children to qualify for free meals.

List the amount that you normally get. If you normally get overtime, include it, but not if you get overtime only sometimes.

Yes, and we may ask you to send written proof.

Information you provide on the form, and your child’s approval status for school meal benefits, will be protected as private data. For more information see the back page of the Application for Educational Benefits.

Yes. Please complete an application at any time if your income goes down, your household size goes up, or you start getting SNAP, MFIP or FDPIR benefits.

You should talk to a school official at 952-401-5048. You may ask for a hearing.