Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025 increases reimbursement rates for school meals.
The Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025 amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase reimbursement rates for school meals. Specifically, it adds an additional 28 cents to the reimbursement for each free breakfast, reduced price breakfast, and breakfast served to children not eligible for free or reduced price meals, and an additional 45 cents for each lunch served in school food authorities. These increases begin on November 1, 2025, and are subject to adjustment starting July 1, 2026.
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