What if a student has a credit or negative balance on POS?
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Negative balance letters are sent out by the Food Service Department at least once monthly. We would request that you send payment as soon as possible for any negative balances on your child’s meal accounts. Please feel free to contact us at (215) 723-6061 extension 10213 to discuss payment plan options. We can also answer any questions you may have with regard to completing a Free and Reduced Price School Meal Application. Applications can be found on the District website at www.soudertonsd.org/Services/Food Service/Free and Reduced Meal Application or by contacting us at the above phone number. Please be advised a Free and Reduced Price School Meal Application must be completed each school year.
A credit or negative balance will be transferred with the student into the next school year.
Meal charges are for emergency use only and are designed to cover situations when parents or students forget to bring or provide funds for meals. Meals provided when a student’s account is negative will continue to accrue until paid. Students will not be allowed to charge a la carte or milk when the account is negative.
Adults: No purchases will be allowed without proper payment.
No Sharing: Children may not use another child’s (including sibling’s) account to make purchases.
Payments: Payments may made be made on www.myschoolbucks.com. There is $2.49 charge per transaction.
Application of Payments: All funds that come into the account will first be deposited toward the outstanding balance.
Low and Negative Balance Notification and Collection Procedures: The following notification procedures may be undertaken in various combinations in an effort to inform parents when a student’s account is low or negative. Parents are strongly encouraged to enroll in the automatic notifications to receive the most current information.
- Students will be verbally notified by the cashier when accounts are getting low.
- Building Food Service Managers or the Supervisor of Food Service may inform the building principal when a student’s account is low or negative.
- Parents subscribing to www.myschoolbucks.com will receive low balance emails through this website.
- Text messages and emails will be sent automatically every Sunday evening to the parents/guardians of all students with a negative account balance.
- The Superintendent or designee is authorized to negotiate a mutually agreed upon payment plan until an account is paid in full.
- The District may also take necessary and permissible steps to collect on this overdue balance if the balance is not paid voluntarily. This may include obtaining a judgment through the local Magisterial District Court or utilizing a third party collection agency. Additional court costs and/or collection fees will be the parent’s/guardian’s responsibility, and will be added to the overdue meal charges.
Application of Payments: Revisions to this AR may be made by the Superintendent or designee at their discretion and
without notice. The current version of this AR will always be posted on the SASD website
(www.soudertonsd.org).
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