Short Text: The student is identified as homeless and/or migrant but lacks the 'Free' eligibility status for the food service program.
Long Text: The student is identified as homeless and/or migrant but lacks the 'Free' eligibility status for the food service program. Students experiencing homelessness or classified as migratory students are automatically eligible for free lunch benefits.
LEAs need to review their data carefully and ensure its accuracy. The eligibility status for the food service program must align correctly with the specific circumstances of students experiencing homelessness or being identified as migrants.
How to Fix, Scenario 1: This Warning displays when a student identified as either homeless or migrant is associated with a food service eligibility status other than ‘Free.’ Students experiencing homelessness or classified as migratory students are automatically eligible for free lunch benefits.
To fix:
First, confirm the correct status of the student: Migrant or Not Migrant, Homeless or Not Homeless.
Check the status of the student’s food service eligibility status: Free, Reduced, or Full Priced.
If either indicator (migrant/homeless or food service eligibility) is incorrect, set it to the correct value in your SIS.
How to Fix, Scenario 2: This warning displays when a new status is submitted (e.g., a change in status from full price to free). This may occur for LEAs who use a vendor tool/food service software that creates a default record for each student as ‘full priced’. The begin date for the ‘full priced’ record is dated prior to the LEA’s school nutrition team updating lunch status. Once the LEA’s school nutrition team completes their updates, a new ‘free’ lunch record is created in the LEA’s student information system (SIS) vendor tool. Since the correct ‘free’ lunch record has a different (i.e., later) start date than the default, food service software record, this date discrepancy can trigger Warning 7483 to throw during the carryover period (the time between the original/default ‘full priced’ status and the new/correct ‘free’ status)
To fix:
First, confirm the correct status of the ‘non-full price’ (i.e., free or reduced) record.
** Ensure it is for the correct student, with the correct status, as was assigned on the correct date for the correct school year.Do not back-date the status records.
When everything is confirmed to be correct, acknowledge the warning.
Technical Details:
Business Rule Logic: Throw for public schools, charter schools, schools for the blind, and schools for the deaf. Exclude CCDEB, DOC, DHS, and choice schools.
Throw on /studentSchoolFoodServiceProgramAssociation endpoint, if Food Service=Reduced/Full/Unknown AND Overlaps with Migrant Program
OR
If Food Service=Reduced/Full/Unknown AND Overlaps with Homeless Program
Additional Comments
For more info, see the Food Services Eligibility data element page.
For more info, see the Homeless Status data element page.
For more info, see the Migrant Status data element page.
10/03/2024