2025 Summer EBT Nonpublic School Guidance

If your school is not an approved 2025 National School Lunch Program school there is nothing you need to do because this collection is only for religious or independent schools who are approved for the 2025 National School Lunch Program. 

If your school is an approved 2025 National School Lunch Program School, you MUST complete the 2025 Summer EBT data collection in the IDEx application on the New York State Education Department Application Business Portal. 

If you are unsure of you school's approval status for the 2024-2025 National School Lunch Program, all of the following must apply:

 

1. The CEO would have completed and submitted the annual application for the 2024-2025 National School Lunch Program. And,

2. The CEO received approval from the Office of Child Nutrition for the 2024-2025 National School Lunch Program. And,

3. The CEO are actively submitting monthly claims for reimbursement for the 2024-2025 National School Lunch Program.

 

If you did not apply, were not approved, and are not sending in monthly claim forms, you are not an approved 2024-2025 National School Lunch Program school.

If you are an approved 2024-2025 National School Lunch Program school, and you cannot see or access the form in the IDEx application on the NYSED Application Business Portal, you need to request entitlements. To do so, follow the directions from the guidance document: SEBT Program Guidance

Please send a new email to Datasupport@nysed.gov with your full name, 12-digit BEDS Code, work email address, work phone number, and your request for access to the “2025 SEBT Data Collection” in the subject field so your ticket will be directly assigned to the correct support group who can update your entitlements in SEDDAS.

SEDDAS refreshes overnight, and it should be in your portal account the following day. You will receive an automatic notification when you receive the entitlements. Once you have entitlements for the form, it will appear in the IDEx Application on your NYSED Application Business Portal Account.