You can claim free school lunches for your nursery aged children if you are receiving:
- Income Support (IS)
- Income-based Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Any income related element of Employment and Support Allowance
- Child Tax Credit (CTC), but not Working Tax Credit, and your income is less than £16,105
- Both maximum Child Tax Credit and maximum Working Tax Credit and your income is under £6,900
- Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- Universal Credit (where the monthly earned income does not exceed £610)
- Incapacity or Severe Disablement Allowance
- State Pension Credit
- Those aged two or over who are (or have been at any point since turning two) either looked after by a Local Authority, the subject of a Kinship Care Order or a child with a Parent or Appointed Guardian.