6 NJ Public Employees Charged With Stealing Thousands From Free Lunch Program

6 NJ Public Employees Charged With Stealing Thousands From Free Lunch Program

TRENTON, NJ (CBS) – Six public employees have been charged with stealing from the free and reduced price school lunch program.

The six employees, who are all women, are accused of filing fake applications for their children. Four of them are from the Philadelphia area.

Some of the six are accused of filing false applications for as many as six school years, resulting in up to $4,000 of free breakfasts and lunches their children were not entitled to.

According to police, the following are facing charges:
1. Nona Daily, 45, of Pennsauken, a teacher’s aide in the Camden School District, allegedly filed false applications for five school years beginning with 2009-2010 and continuing through the current school year, which resulted in her two children receiving $4,016 in free breakfasts and lunches to which they were not entitled. Daily reported only her income in the applications, failing to report that her husband, who is a member of the household, earned between $63,000 and $73,000 in each of those years as an employee of New Jersey Transit. Daily earned between $18,000 and $22,000 annually.

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