Wolf Administration Receives $224 Million in Food Assistance for Pennsylvania Families with Young Children
04/27/2021
Harrisburg, PA - The Wolf Administration has received approval from the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to extend Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) benefit eligibility to families of Pennsylvania SNAP eligible children who are child care aged. This federally-funded program helps families cover the cost of breakfasts and lunches for their children and is designed to bridge the gap left by child care centers closing and to help families who may have strained resources due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic downturn has stretched thousands of families to a breaking point, so we are incredibly grateful that the USDA will allow us to provide some relief and offer more food security to SNAP families with children who are child care aged,” said DHS Acting Secretary Meg Snead. “G
The federal government plans to send $103 million to Iowa to help families buy groceries this summer.
The funds are expected to help feed 276,000 Iowa children from low- and moderate-income families in the state, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture news release Monday. The money will come from the recently passed $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program, or P-EBT was established in March 2020 to provide food dollars to families to make up for meals missed when schools have closed due to COVID-19.
EBT cards, which can be used at grocery stores, are part of the program formerly known as food stamps. A similar special version of the program was offered to Iowa families last summer. Authorities have not announced details, such as how the cards will be distributed.
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The Biden administration announced Monday the expansion of a nutrition program, born amid the start of the pandemic, that could provide more food to nearly 2 million children throughout Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia this summer.
The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer, or P-EBT, program started last March to provide money to low-income families whose children were missing meals normally received at school, programs that were disrupted by the pandemic. Funds are loaded onto a card for individual families to purchase food for their children. The program is now being expanded through the summer, providing food dollars for families alongside the existing food distribution programs run by districts.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a new effort Monday to feed millions of children this summer, when free school meals traditionally reach just a small minority of the kids who rely on them the rest of the year. The move expands what s known as the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer, or P-EBT, program into the summer months, and USDA estimates it will reach more than 30 million children. If children and children s learning and children s health is a priority for us in this country, then we need to fund our priorities, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a Monday interview with NPR s
Warrick Co. School Corporation reacts to Biden Administrationâs summer food program launch
Warrick Co. School Corporation reacts to Biden Administrationâs summer food program launch By Jessica Costello | April 26, 2021 at 4:40 PM CDT - Updated April 26 at 6:48 PM
WARRICK Co., Ind. (WFIE) - The Biden Administration is set to launch the largest summer food program in U.S. history.
According to the Biden Administration, the plan is to help around 34 million low-income children.
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The plans include providing qualifying students about $375 to buy food for the roughly ten weeks that theyâre out of school.
Students who already get free or reduced-price meals, or those children under six years old in a household that qualifies for SNAP benefits, will be eligible.