Free School Meals (FSM)
Important notice
Northumberland Park community school and Noel Park primary school are administering free school meals themselves. Parents should take their application forms and recent benefit evidence to the school. This change does not affect any other school in the borough. If you have children at other schools in Haringey, you will need to make a fresh application for those schools.
- Guidance notes
- Support benefit evidence
- Additional guidance points
- Submitting your application form.
Guidance Notes
The form in the attached files section below should be completed if you are applying for the first time or renewing your entitlement.
Take this form to your nearest customer service centre with your support benefit evidence or post the form to the address below with photocopies of your support benefit evidence.
You cannot receive free school meals if you receive one of the following benefits
- contribution based job seekers allowance
- working tax credit
- incapacity benefit
- state pension credit where you do not receive the ‘guaranteed element’.
Support Benefit Evidence
Complete the application form in the attached files section below and submit one of the following support benefit evidence. The evidence must be no more than two months old.
- If you get income support, we need a letter dated within the last two months from jobcentre plus or the DWP showing you are entitled to this benefit or a bank statement dated within the last two months. You can only use this evidence if it details the exact type of benefit payment being credited to you. The bank statement must also show your national insurance number, name, and address.
- If you get income based job seekers allowance, we need a letter dated within the last two months from jobcentre plus or the DWP showing you are entitled to this benefit or a bank statement dated within the last two months. You can only use this evidence if it details the exact type of benefit payment being credited to you. The bank statement must also show your national insurance number, name and address.
- If you only get child tax credit, providing you are not entitled to working tax credit and have an annual income (as assessed by Revenues and Customs) as of 6 April 2008 that does not exceed £15575, submit your current form TC602 Final Award Notice 2008/09. We need to see all four pages.
- We do not accept child tax credit award notices as proof of income support or income based job seekers allowance
- If you get the guaranteed element of state pension credit, we need a pension credit notice (M1000) dated within the last two months. The letter must state clearly ‘guaranteed element’. Submit all pages.
- If you are supported by NASS or social services asylum team, we need a letter from them dated within the last two months showing you are supported under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. Your child(ren’s) names must be on the letter.
Submit one of the following as proof of relationship to your child if this is your first application.
- A letter from the child benefit agency. The letter must give the child(ren’s) names.
- A long / full birth certificate showing child’s name and parent(s) names.
Additional Guidance Points
Children at a state nursery school: Submit a letter from the school showing your child is receiving nursery education before and after the lunch period.
Children who receive income support or income based job seekers allowance in their own right can apply.
You must re-apply each year. Approval is given for 12 months only, providing you remain on the above support benefit. If your support payments stops, or you move, you must tell us immediately.
School transfers: You must complete a fresh application form and submit up to date supporting evidence if your child transfers schools. The entitlement does not transfer with the child.
|back to topSubmitting your Application Form
Take the completed form with your benefits support evidence to the nearest customer service centre.
Postal address
Student Finance and Entitlements
48 Station Road
London
N22 7TY
Contact Details
Tel 020 8489 0000
Fax 020 8489 1945
Minicom 020 8489 3326
Email Student.finance@haringey.gov.uk.
| Filename | Filetype | Size |
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first application and renewal for free school meals.pdf  | 69K | |
| free school meals guidance notes.pdf | 32K | |
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Update MePage Last Updated: 3 September 2008
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