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WA families lose safety nets as pandemic, inflation persist

Universal free school meals, child tax credits and food assistance aid are sunsetting as relief funding dries up. ....

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Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund opens for new applications - State of Reform


Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund opens for new applications
Sydney Kurle | Apr 21, 2021
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The additional $65 million allocated by the Legislature this year will provide additional relief to support new applicants. The fund will rely on the continued partnership between the state and community organizations, including Scholarship Junkies and the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network, with the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) providing oversight.
Babs Roberts, director of DSHS’ Community Services Division in its Economic Services Administration, said:
“DSHS is honored to be a part of this project that is centering the needs and voices of a community that has largely been left out of basic needs assistance programs. Working with immigrant-led organizations to administer this fund has been crucial to earning the trust of the community and to removing barriers for people to be able to receive the grant ....

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Low-income children wait months for USDA food aid to replace school meals


Low-income children wait months for USDA food aid to replace school meals
POLITICO
12/20/2020
By Helena Bottemiller Evich
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A sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer s market in Topsham, Maine.
Millions of low-income schoolchildren have gone almost an entire semester without receiving federal payments to help their families buy groceries months after Congress authorized the aid even as child hunger reaches record highs in the U.S.
Congress first established the payments in March to replace the free or subsidized meals that students are missing while schools are closed or virtual during the pandemic. But lawmakers waited until the program was set to expire Oct. 1 to extend the aid for the current school year. The USDA then took several weeks to write guidelines for states to hand out the money. ....

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