Pandemic ebt georgia june 2020. Additionally medicaid and peachcare for kids benefits due for renewal in march april may june july august september and october 2020 have been extended by 6 months. Fns is allowing states to provide benefits similar to snap or food stamps to children who normally receive free or reduced price school meals. Pandemic electronic benefit transfer p ebt is a new program authorized by the families first coronavirus response act ffcra which provides assistance to families with children who have temporarily lost access to free or reduced price school meals due to the covid 19 pandemic.
Responding to the economic upheaval caused by covid 19 congress passed families first in march 2020. The family first coronavirus response act of 2020 allows the food and nutrition service fns to facilitate the distribution of the pandemic electronic benefit. Pandemic ebt is a new program authorized by the families first coronavirus response act of 2020.
The georgia division of family children services dfcs partnered with the georgia department of education gadoe to provide food benefits to families with children who receive free or reduced school lunch. Washington dc june 5 2020 us. The p ebt program is a collaboration between the georgia.
P ebtea reporting questions answers the families first coronavirus response act of 2020 provides the secretary of agriculture authority to approve state agency plans for temporary emergency standards of eligibility and levels of benefits under the food and nutrition act of 2008. If you are currently receiving food stamps as of march 2020 you will receive additional benefits. Georgia officials slowly roll out pandemic food stamp.
Changes made to georgia food stamps due to coronavirus. Fns rapidly expanded snap online purchasing to support social distancing bringing access to nearly three quarters of the states covering 90 of snap. The state of georgia has been granted a waiver from the federal government to allow all food stamps recipients to get the maximum allotment based on their household size.
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