EBT card

[Anonymous]

Just got one in the mail and we don’t qualify. Our North Arlington school wouldn’t likely qualify either and no one told us to expect it. Anyone else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just got one in the mail and we don’t qualify. Our North Arlington school wouldn’t likely qualify either and no one told us to expect it. Anyone else?

I got one too — very confused. We definitely don’t qualify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got one in the mail and we don’t qualify. Our North Arlington school wouldn’t likely qualify either and no one told us to expect it. Anyone else?

I got one too — very confused. We definitely don’t qualify.

+1 we are also in N Arlington and got one. We don’t qualify, either.

[Anonymous]

+1. North Arlington. Is it because everyone got free lunch last year so that automatically signs us all up for the benefit though none of us are eligible?

[Anonymous]

It’s not based on your income. It’s based on if your school qualified (how did WMS qualify ??) and how many days of school your kid missed.

[Anonymous]

It’s PEBT it’s for the kids
Just enjoy some free food!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not based on your income. It’s based on if your school qualified (how did WMS qualify ??) and how many days of school your kid missed.

Did all APS schools qualify? That’s the only way this makes sense. Does anyone know what the card “does”? Is it loaded with a certain amount of money?

[Anonymous]

Is the pandemic Benefit continued this year?

[Anonymous]

If you get funds on the card you can use them to buy groceries for one if the free food pantries. The one at central library and the one at 2bd S and Walter Reed are both used a lot and can use donations. I feel guilty using EBT (high income household), so I donate food I buy with my funds.

[Anonymous]

The cars will be loaded with almost $400 on Thursday

[Anonymous]

Looks like it’s the summer P-EBT benefit and based on free school lunch eligibility for the last school year.

[Anonymous]

My kid is at a title 1 school and we didn’t get one.

[Anonymous]

We got one too and I just researched why. They are Pandemic EBT benefits for this past school year. All of the APS schools appear to have qualified. If you got benefits, it was because you had a kid who had a covid-related absence last school year while they qualified for free/reduced meals. But since everyone qualified for free/reduced meals last year, everyone who had a covid-related school absence qualifies for some level of benefits.

Here are the tiers of benefits, which appear to be based on number of consecutive days absent and with separate benefits allocations for each period of absence:

Tier A (1-5 days): $21.30
Tier B (6-15 days): $71.00
Tier C (16 or more days): $127.80

In our case, one of our kids missed 7 days of school due to covid, and also missed three days of school for a non-covid illness that required a negative covid test to return to school before the end of the quarantine period. We got benefits totaling $92.30, which equals one Tier A absence plus one Tier B absence.

I cannot find anything to suggest we are not entitled to this money under the program (even though we would never qualify for FARMS based on income), so we are planning to use it to buy food to donate to AFAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you get funds on the card you can use them to buy groceries for one if the free food pantries. The one at central library and the one at 2bd S and Walter Reed are both used a lot and can use donations. I feel guilty using EBT (high income household), so I donate food I buy with my funds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cars will be loaded with almost $400 on Thursday

thanks for the heads up