Sentences with phrase «meals under the new system»

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«Children will be recorded as eligible for free school meals who wouldn't have been under the old system, but then they will not be eligible when the new system is introduced next year,» he said.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that although 210,000 children previously ineligible for free meals stand to gain under the new system, 160,000 pupils who would have been entitled to free meals under the old system will lose out.

The government claims the changes in eligibility will mean that 50,000 more pupils will become eligible for free school meals, while Labour and the Children's Society say around a million children who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes into force.

New analysis by the IfS, funded by the Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield, looks at the potential long - term impact of the government's new # 7,400 earnings threshold for free school meals under the new universal credit benefits systNew analysis by the IfS, funded by the Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield, looks at the potential long - term impact of the government's new # 7,400 earnings threshold for free school meals under the new universal credit benefits systnew # 7,400 earnings threshold for free school meals under the new universal credit benefits systnew universal credit benefits system.

Schools Week revealed at the weekend that pupils with a household income of up to # 55,000 would become eligible to claim free meals under universal credit, because of the complex way the new system works.