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Lunch menu and free school meals

If you are the parent/carer of a child in a County Durham school they may qualify for free school meals.

 

Any child may qualify for a free school meal if you receive one of the following benefits:

  • Universal Credit with an annual earnings threshold that does not exceed £7,400. 
  • Income Support.
  • Income Based Jobseekers Allowance.
  • Income-related Employment and Support Allowance.
  • Child Tax Credit (provided a parent is not entitled to Working Tax Credit) and have an annual income, as assessed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, that does not exceed £16,190.
  • Working Tax Credit run on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit.
  • Guaranteed Element of State Pension Credit.
  • Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

You can register your child for free school meals here.