The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. The program is administered locally by the Department's School Food Services Branch.
The Department's School Food Services Branch uses the EZMealApp website to provide families with the option to submit applications for Free and Reduced-Price Meal Benefits online. The online program will walk parents and guardians through an easy step-by-step application process. Schools will continue to forward eligibility notifications to households.
**The Hawaii online application for Free/Reduced Lunch for the school year 2020-21 will re-open in mid-July 2020. If you had Free or Reduced lunch in the 2019-20SY it will carry over until September 30, 2020.
Other benefits of qualifying for this federally assisted meal program often include:
Children from households with income at or below the following levels are eligible for free or reduced-price meals, effective July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020:
Yearly
Monthly
Twice per Month
Every 2 Weeks
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
For each additional household member add:
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Please direct inquiries regarding Department nondiscrimination policies to: Civil Rights Compliance Branch Hawaii State Department of Education P.O. Box 2360 Honolulu, Hawaii 96804 (808) 586-3322 or relay CRCB@k12.hi.us
Beth Schimmelfennig, Director Rhonda Wong, Compliance Aaron Oandasan, Title VI Toby Yamashiro, Title VII Nicole Isa-Iijima, Title IX Krysti Sukita, ADA/504 Inquiries concerning discrimination and/or harassment may also be referred to the Office for Civil Rights, United States Department of Education.
