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Accuracy of SFA Processing of School Lunch Applications – Regional Office Review of Applications (RORA) 2006

Resource type
Research
Research type
Payment Accuracy and Program Integrity
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PDF Icon Final Report (50.90 KB)

This is the second in a series of annual reports assessing administrative errors associated with school food authorities’ (SFAs) approval of applications for free and reduced-price school meals. In school year 2005/06, more than 96 percent of students who were approved for meal benefits on the basis of an application were receiving the correct level of meal benefits, based on the information in the application files. Three percent of all students who submitted an application for meal benefits had an administrative error in the processing of their applications, down slightly from 3.5 percent in the previous school year, although not statistically significant.

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