FNS - Food and Nutrition Service
01/18/2023 | News release | Distributed by Public on 01/18/2023 11:07
State Guidance on Coronavirus P-EBT
Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) is part of the U.S. government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 (PL 116-127), as amended by the Continuing Appropriation ed Appropriations Act 2021 (PL 116-260), and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (PL 117-2) provides the Secretary of Agriculture authority to approve state agency plans to administer P-EBT.
Through P-EBT, eligible school children receive temporary emergency nutrition benefits loaded on EBT cards that are used to purchase food. Children who would have received free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Act if their schools were not closed or operating with reduced hours or attendance for at least 5 consecutive days are eligible to receive P-EBT benefits. P-EBT also provides benefits to younger children in households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) whose covered child care facility is closed or operating with reduced hours or attendance, or who live in the area of schools that are closed or operating with reduced hours or attendance.
Resources for School Year 2022-23
Resources for Summer 2023
State Participation for School Year 2022-23
The following states and territories have been approved to operate a Pandemic EBT program during school year 2022-23:
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Alabama Minnesota |
New Jersey North Carolina |
Rhode Island Vermont |
Wisconsin |
Prior Year P-EBT Approvals and Resources
Summer 2022
The following states and territories have been approved to operate a Pandemic EBT program during summer 2022.
Resources for Summer 2022
- P-EBT Summer 2022 Cover Memo
- P-EBT Summer 2022 Questions and Answers
- P-EBT State Plan Template Summer 2022
The following states and territories have been approved to operate a Pandemic EBT program during SY 2021-22:
Resources for School Year 2021-22
- P-EBT SY 2021-22 Cover Memo
- P-EBT Questions and Answers SY 2021-22
- P-EBT State Plan Template SY 2021-22
- P-EBT Q&A Addendum SY 2021-22
The following states have been approved to operate a Pandemic EBT program during SY 2020-21.
Resources for Summer 2021
- P-EBT Summer 2021 Cover Memo
- P-EBT Summer 2021 Questions and Answers
- P-EBT State Plan Template Summer 2021
- USDA Press Release
The following states have been approved to operate a Pandemic EBT program during SY 2020-21.
Resources for School Year 2020-21
- P-EBT SY 2020-21 State Plans Policy Memo
- P-EBT SY 2020-21 Cover Memo
- P-EBT Questions and Answers SY 2020-21
- P-EBT State Plan Template SY 2020-21
The following states have been approved to operate a Pandemic EBT program during School Year 2019-20.
Resources for School Year 2019-20