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- The pilot program aimed to enhance the accuracy of certifying students for free or reduced-price meals by requiring income documentation from households.
- Despite the added requirement, the proportion of ineligible households receiving benefits did not decrease.
- However, this requirement led to reduced access for eligible households, highlighting the trade-off between access and integrity in means-tested programs.
Article Abstract
Programs using means tests to identify low-income households face a trade-off between promoting access and ensuring program integrity. The authors use a comparison-district design to estimate the effects of a pilot program to improve the accuracy of the process of certifying students for free or reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program. This pilot program required households to provide income documentation with their applications for these benefits. Requiring income documentation did not reduce the proportion of ineligible households getting free or reduced-price meals. Furthermore, this requirement did reduce access to the program among eligible households.
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