During the COVID pandemic, all students were provided free and reduced priced lunch, regardless of individual applications. Will students in this situation be automatically eligible for FAST (assuming all other criteria is met)?

Maybe. If a student participated in the National School Lunch Program and was coded as participating by any Texas public school or open-enrollment charter using Economic-Disadvantage-Code (table C054) ‘01,’ ‘02,’ or ‘99’ in any of the four school years prior to the academic year in which the student is enrolled in the dual credit course, then the student is eligible for FAST, if all other requirements are met. The institution may receive students’ eligibility statuses from the THECB if they submit a roster of students registered for current dual credit courses using their TEA-issued Texas Student Data System (TSDS) Unique ID.