P-EBT program returning to help families pay for food
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HEBBRONVILLE, Texas â For the second year, the federal government is providing relief for families in the form of the Pandemic Eligibility Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) program. The program provides benefits for families who temporarily lost access to free or reduced-price meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Not everyone is eligible.
The program covers students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), kids born after Aug. 1, 2014, whose families received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for at least one month between October 2020 and June 2021, and students who attend a Community Eligible Provision (CEP) or Provision 2 (P2) school.
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Grocery stores in Texas are preparing for a big week. More than $2 billion in pandemic food benefits for Texas families with kids in school will get loaded onto Lone Star Cards this week, starting Monday. It will start Monday night, and it will be about $300 million loaded onto Lone Star Cards per night the balance of the month. And that will be large business for our supermarkets, said Gary Huddleston, a grocery industry consultant with the Texas Retailers Association. We ve been preparing for this in our supermarkets and ordering more product, beefing up staffing because this will be, in the state of Texas, big business for our supermarkets and benefits for the families.