Paul McDonogh
28:08 - 28:54
“So some of the changes at the federal level have really impacted student eligibility. As there were some changes to the SNAP programs, to TANF, to Medicaid program. All of those do provide some automatic eligibility for National School Lunch Program and being able to access free or reduced reimbursable meals.”
- Speaker
- Paul McDonogh
- Timestamp
- 28:08 – 28:54
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- November 2, 2026
From the transcript
So some of the changes at the federal level have really impacted student eligibility. As there were some changes to the SNAP programs, to TANF, to Medicaid program. All of those do provide some automatic eligibility for National School Lunch Program and being able to access free or reduced reimbursable meals. And so some of those changes we suspect had something to do with some of that, as well as really just very optimistic that the amount of meals that we were providing was going to translate to reimbursable dollars, and that just didn't happen. Costs are up in several areas.
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