Pandemic EBT available

Families with school-age children may now apply for the Pandemic EBT food aid that Congress provided the Marianas in the continuing resolution last October. The estimated $11.1 million for pandemic EBT will help pay the cost of meals that students would have received, if they had been attending school in-person. The rate of reimbursement is $7.97 per day. Some 11,671 students are expected to be eligible.

According to the Public School System, students were given applications last week to bring home. All completed applications must be turned in to the PSS Child Nutrition Program Office on Capital Hill or the CNMI Nutrition Assistance Program in As Lito by June 11, 2021 4:30 p.m. ChST. Read the Commonwealth’s State Plan here. More information and answers to frequently asked questions are available here.