Policy Memo SY 2021-22 (141.20 KB)
Q&A SY 2021-22 (411.35 KB)
State Plan SY 2021-22 (648.59 KB)
Q&A Addendum SY 2021-22 (304.57 KB)
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 Appropriations Act 2021 and Other Extensions Act (PL 116-159), the Consolidated 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.
Summer 2022
The following states and territories have been approved to operate a Pandemic EBT program during summer 2022:
School Year 2021-22
The following states and territories have been approved to operate a Pandemic EBT program during SY 2021-22:
- P-EBT Guidance - Assistance for Children in Schools and Child Care SY 2021-22
- P-EBT Q&A Addendum - Assistance for Children in Schools SY 2021-22
- P-EBT Q&A – SY 2021-22
- P-EBT State Plan Template - Children in Schools and Child Care SY 2021-22
- SY 2020-21 P-EBT and Summer 2021 P-EBT State Participation
- SY 2019-20 P-EBT State Participation
- P-EBT Guidance - Summer 2022
- P-EBT Q&A - Summer 2022
- P-EBT State Plan Template - Summer 2022