State to Provide Food Benefits for Children in FoodShare Households Not Enrolled in New Program

Thursday, June 3rd, 2021 -- 1:00 PM

(Wisconsin Ag Connection) As it did last year, the state will provide food benefits for children under the age of 6 in FoodShare households who are not yet enrolled in school as part of a new federal program.

It's part of the Pre-6 Pandemic-EBT program, which helps families with young children that may have been at home more often since last fall due to closures of child care facilities during the pandemic.

Benefits were released last week covering the months of October through December 2020. FoodShare recipients do not need to do anything to receive these benefits.

The amount of benefits will be calculated based on a regional basis, using information submitted by schools for the regular P-EBT program about how often students learned from home during this school year.

Households are only eligible to receive Pre-6 P-EBT benefits for months in which they were active in the FoodShare program, and children must be under the age of 6 as of October 1, 2020.

If a child is under the age of 6, but goes to a K-12 school where they are enrolled in free or reduced-price meals, they are eligible for the School P-EBT program and will not receive Pre-6 P-EBT benefits.

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