U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Louisiana and Indiana have been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
Louisiana and Indiana will be able to operate Pandemic EBT, a supplemental food purchasing benefit to current SNAP participants and as a new EBT benefit to other eligible households to offset the cost of meals that would have otherwise been consumed at school. For the 2019-2020 school year, Louisiana had approximately 603,000 children eligible for free and reduced-priced lunch, or approximately 78% of children in participating schools. For the 2019-2020 school year, Indiana had approximately 588,127 children eligible for free and reduced-priced lunch, or approximately 53% of children in participating schools. Previous announcements of approvals for Pandemic EBT include: Michigan , Rhode Island , North Carolina, Massachusetts , Arizona, Illinois , Alabama , Wisconsin , California, Connecticut, Kansas, Virginia , Maryland, New Mexico, Delaware, Oregon, Maine, North Dakota, West Virginia, Vermont , New York, Pennsylvania , Texas, New Jersey , Ohio , and New Hampshire .
Under FFCRA, States have the option to submit a plan to the Secretary of Agriculture for providing these benefits to SNAP and non-SNAP households with children who have temporarily lost access to free or reduced-price school meals due to pandemic-related school closures. State agencies may operate Pandemic EBT when a school is closed for at least five consecutive days during a public health emergency designation during which the school would otherwise be in session.
The implementation of Pandemic EBT is in line with USDA?s commitment to keep Americans safe, secure, and healthy during this national emergency and to keep kids fed when schools are closed. USDA is working with states and local authorities to ensure schools and other program operators can continue to feed children. This latest action complements previously-announced flexibilities for the Child Nutrition programs that:
Today?s announcement is the latest in a series of actions that USDA?s Food and Nutrition Service has taken to uphold the USDA?s commitment to ?Do Right and Feed Everyone? during this national emergency. Other actions include:
These actions and more are part of USDA?s focus on service during the COVID-19 outbreak. To learn more about FNS?s response to COVID-19, visit www.fns.usda.gov/coronavirus .
USDA?s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers 15 nutrition assistance programs that leverage American?s agricultural abundance to ensure children and low-income individuals and families have nutritious food to eat. FNS also co-develops the Dietary Guidelines for Americans , which provide science-based nutrition recommendations and serve as the cornerstone of federal nutrition policy.
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