Crystal Lake Community Consolidated School District 47 recently issued the following announcement.
The state of Illinois is offering a new temporary food assistance program called Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer Program (P-EBT) for qualifying students and families. Please see below for information about the program.
What is P-EBT?
- The P-EBT program provides compensation benefits for in-school meals missed due to school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Benefits will be retroactive to the start of the 2020-21 school year and will be provided through the end of the school year (June 2021). For qualifying families, each student will receive compensation ($6.82 per day) for days that school was closed due to remote learning during the 2020-21 school year.
- Students currently enrolled in District 47’s 2020-21 free and reduced school lunch program or are currently receiving SNAP, TANF or Medicaid benefits automatically qualify for the P-EBT program. A debit card will be mailed to each student in the household to purchase food at SNAP-authorized grocery stores. The card will arrive in an unmarked envelope sometime in March. Please ensure your address is up-to-date in ParentVue and keep the card so it can be reused when new funds are added.
- Students new to the district or those who wish to receive P-EBT benefits need to apply for and be accepted into the free and reduced lunch program to qualify for the program. Free and reduced lunch applications can be found on the District 47 website at https://www.d47.org/Page/309.
- Note: Citizenship status does not affect eligibility nor does it impact the public charge test.
- No. These are two separate programs. Regardless of your child’s status with the P-EBT program, all students are entitled to receive the free grab-and-go breakfast and lunch meals provided daily during dismissal and weekly for remote families.
Original source can be found here.
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