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NCDHHS to expand EBT benefits to families with children Mansur Shaheen | Feb 18, 2021
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) will issue additional benefits to families with children starting on Friday as a part of their Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program.
Families with school aged children who are eligible for free or reduced price lunches at their public school will be eligible for the benefit. Funds will be available on an EBT card that can be used at approved grocery and retail chains throughout the state.
Tara Myers, deputy secretary of the NCDHHS, believes the change will allow families to purchase healthier food for their children, as she said in a statement:
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Pandemic-EBT providing Marylanders with food security
February 12, 2021
MARYLAND – The Maryland Department of Human Services and the Maryland State Department of Education received approval from the USDA to operate a Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Program. State officials say about 467,000 children in Maryland will benefit from it.
These benefits called P-EBT will help families in Maryland purchase food while schools are closed due to COVID-19. Compared to regular EBT cards where you usually have to apply for, some families will automatically qualify.
Mark Thompson with Emmanuel Wesleyan says, “People still need a lot of food so they’re still managing, do they pay their bills or do they buy food.” The P-EBT gives families an opportunity to purchase groceries. However, as much as it’s providing, some local food distribution directors are seeing a decline for the need of their services. “We started seeing that sort of decline. I started noticing that the lunches a
Experts say the hunger crisis has increased in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
They say a lack of healthy food can exacerbate health issues, including heart disease and high blood pressure, in people of all ages.
They note that hunger can also affect children’s performance in school as well as cause developmental delays.
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“As soon as I get the box, I start thinking: I can put the mixed vegetables with the ground meat. I can make soup and beef stew, rice and beans and pasta. I have stuff for salads. They’re even giving me eggs I can make for breakfast.”