Direct Certification with Medicaid for Free and Reduced-Price Meals (DCM-F/RP) Demonstration, Year 2

This report examines the impact of using Medicaid data to directly certify students for free and reduced-price school meals in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs in fifteen states in School Year 2017-18. Unlike other direct certification methods with programs that confer eligibi...

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Published in:Policy File 2020
Main Authors: Hulsey, Lara, Gothro, Andrew, Leftin, Joshua, Washburn, Liana, Estes, Brian, Wroblewska, Kathy, Wagner, Hilary, Lee, Amanda, Wulsin, Claire Smither, Chestnut, Kelsey
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Education
Food
Mathematica Policy Research
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Summary:This report examines the impact of using Medicaid data to directly certify students for free and reduced-price school meals in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs in fifteen states in School Year 2017-18. Unlike other direct certification methods with programs that confer eligibility for free school meals (e.g., with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) administrative data), Medicaid participation does not confer categorical eligibility. Rather, income data from the state Medicaid agency must be matched to student records to determine eligibility. Medicaid comes last in the hierarchy of direct certification. Students are only directly certified with Medicaid if they are not identified using another program.