Thursday, October 15, 2020

EBT cards available at schools
The Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS) is working with local schools to give eligible families who missed the deadline to apply for the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program another chance to receive food assistance. The department is sending a P-EBT card to the last school those qualifying students attended for their parents to pick up. P-EBT provides parents with $5.70 in benefits per student for each day that child qualifies. These benefits can be used to purchase food at any establishment that accepts EBT cards or online with Amazon and Walmart. To be eligible, students must have received free or reduced meals at school or attended a Community Eligibility Provision school during the months of March, April and/or May. The program is designed to replace meals lost due to COVID-19 school closures. This second opportunity for parents to receive P-EBT follows a successful application process that wrapped up in August with more than 500,000 children receiving benefits. Qualifying families will need to provide a valid ID to the school to pick up the cards. Any cards that aren’t picked up after thirty days will be returned to TDHS for disposal.


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