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What is the Community Eligibility Provision? Community Eligibility Provision The Community Eligibility Provision allows high-need schools to offer breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge and use significant administrative savings to offset any additional costs, over and above federal reimbursements, of serving free meals to all. Community eligibility increases participation in school breakfast and lunch, allowing [...]

Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) provides nutritional resources to families who have lost access to free or reduced-price school meals due to school or childcare closures. Families receive money on a new or existing EBT card to help fill the school and childcare meals gap. P-EBT Frequently Asked Questions Q1: What is Pandemic EBT?A1: Pandemic [...]

UPDATED May 19, 2020 The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program, authorized through the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, provides states a critical opportunity to provide support, efficiently and comprehensively, to families that rely on free or reduced-price school meals when school is open. Through P-EBT, states can issue eligible households an EBT card with […]

A new research brief from Healthy Eating Research (HER), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, underscores why it is urgent for policymakers to enact SNAP benefit increases in the next COVID-19 emergency relief package. Steps taken in prior packages are providing a modest measure of help, but, given the magnitude of the crisis, […]

April 13, 2020 The anti-hunger community’s work is more critical than ever as the COVID-19 pandemic presents a twin threat to public health and the economy. Even before the crisis, 37 million people across the country lived in food-insecure households, and an untold number more are expected to struggle to put food on the table as the pandemic […]