{"id":287797,"date":"2026-07-06T06:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287797\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:10:38","slug":"eligible-new-yorkers-can-receive-free-meals-through-state-food-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287797\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligible New Yorkers can receive free meals through state food assistance program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WBNG) &#8212; Children and Adults who attend certain programs throughout the summer may be eligible for free meals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Participating programs with the Child and Adult Care Food Program provide access to free meals across New York State. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Currently, 1,258 organizations and 13,441 licensed day care sites participate in the program, including:<\/p>\n<p>Childcare centers, including Head Start centersCommunity-based adult day cares for adults with disabilitiesAfter-school programsHomeless sheltersFamily day care programs<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The level of support for free or reduced-price meals received by all eligible participants is based on household income as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Eligible New Yorkers can receive free meals through state food assistance program\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/UEL7IDRYMZC27PLZDYN5FAT6YU.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"465\" \/>Eligible New Yorkers can receive free meals through state food assistance program(WBNG)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a <a href=\"https:\/\/health.data.ny.gov\/Health\/Child-and-Adult-Care-Food-Program-Participation-Ma\/g24e-5m2r\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/health.data.ny.gov\/Health\/Child-and-Adult-Care-Food-Program-Participation-Ma\/g24e-5m2r\">map of participating locations here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WBNG) &#8212; Children and Adults who attend certain programs throughout the summer may be eligible for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-287797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}