Thousands of NYC pandemic food benefits have gone unspent. How to use them
State data shared with Chalkbeat showed more than 90,000 NYC students haven’t spent recent allotments of P-EBT funds.
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State data shared with Chalkbeat showed more than 90,000 NYC students haven’t spent recent allotments of P-EBT funds.
The pandemic food benefits aim to help families cover summer meal costs or those incurred when their children missed school due to COVID-19. It’s the latest round to be doled out.
The state began sending New York families $375 per child for food benefits, a retroactive move to cover meal costs from last summer.
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