According to the article that I've posted, an estimated 40,000 children will lose the reduced or free lunch program due to the income in the home becoming too much for the parent's (legal guardian, too) to qualify.
This income can include assets...and things that are accessible for potential income to come into the home.
IOW, if their parent's and I assume this could be (for example) a single parent working two minimum wage or barely above minimum wage jobs could find themselves removed from the program for earning too much income into the home.
So while yes, those with dependents in the home--children--may not see any change, others can due to the income of the able-bodied adult family members.
And they count all sources of income, too.
BionicBunny wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:33 am
Maybe you can shed some light on my confusion, AZ. I’m a little confused with conflicting information. I read your link and I’m wondering what was proposed to make changes in homes with children. The other links says the changes are for able bodied adults without dependent children.
Edit: I notice your article mentions public pushback and it reopened the comment period for the proposed rule to November 1st. Then they will review before making a final decision.
The other article is from Dec. Is it possible my confusion and the conflicting information is due to a final decision that didn’t include rules that would affect school Lunches or households with dependent children, as the other article says able bodied adults without dependent children.
AZLizardLady wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:05 pm
Just-mom wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:49 pm
How would this affect free/ reduced lunch. The application asks if you get food stamps/Medicaid. If the answer is yes you automatically qualify. Now because it is a separate program, you can still qualify if you don't get food stamps you just have to fill out the financial information, there is NOT a work requirement so how would this affect the kids?
There are many "working poor" who actually make MORE than the income limits for food stamps or other entitlement programs, and this can include the reduced/free lunch program offered at public schools.
These same folks often make too much money (again) to qualify for low-income programs yet don't have enough money to afford health care, medication, a car, and so on.
Here's some information from a website I personally trust:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how ... ds-in-need
And from the above story on that same website:
"If the proposed rule goes into effect, USDA analysis says 982,000 school children could see disruption in their access to free-or-reduced school meals. When it revised its proposal due to pushback, the federal government pointed out that most children would still have access to free-or-reduced school breakfast and lunch under the change.
However, the government said an estimated 40,000 children — roughly the size of all public school children enrolled in Lincoln, Nebraska, would lose those meals because they lived in homes that reported too much in income and assets."
An estimated 40,000 children is still too many children, in my book, who could very easily be affected by this.