Income Guidelines for Free and Reduced Price Meals
School Year 2026 Income Guidelines
School Year 2026 Reimbursement Rates and Income Guidelines
| Federal Nutrition Programs Reimbursement Rates SY 2025 | |||||||
| Severe Need | Severe Need | ||||||
| Lunch | Lunch | Breakfast | Breakfast | Snack | |||
| Includes PBR* | |||||||
| PAID | $0.51 | $0.53 | $0.39 | $0.39 | $0.11 | ||
| REDUCED | $4.12 | $4.14 | $2.07 | $2.54 | $0.60 | ||
| FREE | $4.52 | $4.54 | $2.37 | $2.84 | $1.21 | ||
*For more information on PBR contact child.nutrition@maine.gov
Chart of Accounts
For more information about Chart of Accounts and Department of Education, contact Denise Towers.
Indirect Costs
Maine currently does not have a delegation agreement in place with US Department of Education which allows school district to charge the National School Lunch Program or any other federal program indirect costs. Indirect costs rates must be approved by the Department of Education and no such costs have been approved or a method in place to do so. Therefore no food service program should be charged indirect costs. If so that must be ended and the indirect costs charged to the program must be reversed.