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Frequently Asked Questions for the Pandemic Electronic Do good Transfer (P-EBT) Nutrient Benefits

Answers to many commonly asked questions virtually the P-EBT food benefits for New York State residents:

What are P-EBT food benefits?

The Standing Appropriations Act of 2021 and Other Extensions Act reauthorized the payment of P-EBT food benefits to households with children who would have received free school lunches nether the National School Tiffin Act, if not for a reduction in in-person learning due to the pandemic. These temporary food benefits are existence provided to help cover the cost of meals children would have otherwise received at school during the 2020-21 bookish year.

P-EBT food benefits are not SNAP benefits. They can only be used to purchase the same food items that can be purchased with SNAP benefits. A list of food items that may be purchased with food benefits can be found at http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligible-food-items/.

Are my child/children eligible for P-EBT food benefits?

Children who receive gratuitous school lunches through the National School Lunch Program are eligible for P-EBT food benefits if their school has been operating with reduced in-person attendance due to COVID-nineteen during the 2020-21 schoolhouse twelvemonth. This includes children who attend Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) schools and any private, prekindergarten, parochial and charter schools that participate in the National School Lunch Plan. Please contact your child/children's school or school district with questions concerning their participation in the National Schoolhouse Lunch Program.

You lot do non (and cannot) apply for P-EBT nutrient benefits. P-EBT food benefits will automatically be issued to eligible children.

How much volition my child/children receive in P-EBT nutrient benefits?

Eligible children will receive P-EBT nutrient benefits based on the number of days their school has reported that it was closed, or that in-person attendance was reduced due to COVID-19. There are two unlike amounts that an eligible child may receive:

• Children whose schools reported that their in-person schoolhouse omnipresence was reduced by 1 to 12 days during a month, will receive $82 in P-EBT food benefits for that calendar month.
• Children whose schools reported that their in-person school attendance was reduced for more than than 12 days during a calendar month, will receive $132 in P-EBT food benefits for that month
• Children whose schools reported that their in-person attendance was not reduced during a month due to COVID volition not receive a benefit for that month.

Delight note, the P-EBT food do good amount that eligible children receive is based on the availability of monthly in-person school attendance information provided by schools and school districts.

How will I receive P-EBT food benefits for my qualified kid/children?

• Eligible children currently receiving SNAP or Temporary Assistance (cash) will take their P- EBT food benefits issued to their household's EBT card.
• Eligible children who are currently enrolled in Medicaid and successfully accessed and redeemed their P-EBT food benefits for the 2019-20 school year on a NYS Medicaid card will receive their P-EBT nutrient benefits for the 2020-21 schoolhouse year on the same NYS Medicaid card.
• Eligible children who successfully accessed their food benefits for the 2019-twenty school year on a P-EBT Food Benefit card will receive their food benefits for the 2020-21 schoolhouse twelvemonth on the same P-EBT Food Benefit card.
• All other eligible children will be mailed a P-EBT Food Benefit card with instructions explaining how to activate the menu and access the food benefits.

If the NYS Medicaid bill of fare or P-EBT Nutrient Benefit menu you used to access your kid'south P-EBT food benefits for the 2019-20 school year has been lost, stolen or damaged, the data below explains how you lot can order a replacement card.

Of import: Please exist sure to concord on to your EBT carte du jour, NYS Medicaid card or P-EBT Nutrient Benefit carte in the event that additional P-EBT food benefits are issued to your child in the future.

When volition my qualified child/children receive the P-EBT food benefits?

• Eligible children who attend public school in New York Urban center volition receive their P-EBT food benefits for the 2020-21 schoolhouse year in 2 payments:
  • The first payment will be issued to NYC public school children beginning in June and volition include the total do good corporeality for each month between September 2020 and March 2021 that a child qualified for P-EBT food benefits.
  • The 2nd payment of P-EBT food benefits volition begin to be issued to NYC public school children afterwards the first payments have been issued. This payment volition include the total benefit amount for each month betwixt April and June 2021 that a child qualified for P-EBT food benefits.
• Eligible children who attend public school in the rest of the country (all areas exterior of the 5 boroughs of NYC) will receive their P-E BT food benefits for the 2020-21 schoolhouse yr in a unmarried payment, which will include the total benefit corporeality for each month between September 2020 and June 2021 that a child qualified for P-EBT food benefits. These payments will start being issued in late August.
• Eligible children who attend non-public school throughout NYS will receive their P-E BT nutrient benefits for the 2020-21 school yr in a single payment, which will include the total benefit corporeality for each month betwixt September 2020 and June 2021 that a child qualified for P-EBT food benefits. Payments to not-public schoolhouse children will begin once public schoolhouse do good distribution has concluded.

P-EBT nutrient benefits will be issued every bit monthly in-person school attendance data provided past schools and school districts is reviewed and processed. You tin check the condition of your kid(ren)'due south school in the NYS P-EBT School List at otda.ny.gov/nys-schools. The Payment Status describes the status of a school'due south file of eligible students for payment processing and volition be 1 of the following types:

• In Review: The school's student file has been received and is being evaluated.
• Issuing: The school'due south student file has been received and NYS is in the process of distributing benefits to the school'southward eligible children. It can take several weeks to distribute P-EBT food benefits to all of the eligible children in a school.
• Pending: The school's student file is awaiting review or has not yet been received. Please check back at a later date equally the information is updated.

We will continue to update this website and the NYS School Listing every bit additional information on P-EBT food benefit distribution becomes available.

IMPORTANT: Please exist sure to concur on to your EBT card, NYS Medicaid menu or P-EBT Food Benefit card in the event that additional P-EBT nutrient benefits are issued to your child in the time to come.

How do I access the P-EBT food benefits if they are on a P-EBT Food Benefit card?

To access your P-EBT food benefits using a P-EBT Food Do good card, you must take a Personal Identification Number (Pin). It is important that you follow the directions for selecting a PIN to exist able to admission your food benefits.

• You lot tin can select ane over the phone past calling 1-888-328-6399. Delight be prepared to provide security data, including your zip code and the calendar month and day of the cardholder'south birthday (MM/DD), to consummate this process.
  

  

  Instance of a P-EBT card. All P-EBT cards will have an ID number that starts with the letter "I". All P-EBT cards will have a 01/01/1900 DOB.

• For detailed instructions on how to select a PIN for your P-EBT Food Benefit card view the Activating a P-EBT 2020 Food Benefit video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvWV-FvyA5Y&characteristic=youtu.be
• For written instructions on how to select a Pin for your P-EBT Food Benefit carte visit: https://otda.ny.gov/SNAP-COVID-xix/P-EBT-Card-PIN-Instructions.asp

IMPORTANT: Delight be sure to hold on to your P-EBT Food Benefit card in the upshot that additional P-EBT food benefits are issued to your child in the time to come.

How do I gild a replacement P-EBT Food Benefit card?

Important: Replacement P-EBT Food Benefit cards should merely be requested when the previously issued bill of fare has been lost, stolen or damaged. Food benefits will be issued as monthly in-person schoolhouse attendance information provided by schools and school districts is reviewed and processed. Ordering a replacement bill of fare volition non event in receiving your child(ren)'due south P-EBT food benefits faster and, in some cases, may delay access to your child(ren)'s benefits.

• You lot tin can order a replacement P-EBT Food Do good card by calling 1-888-328-6399. Please exist prepared to provide security data, including the 19-digit card number that was printed on the front of the P-EBT Food Benefit card you are replacing.
  • If you lot exercise non have that number, yous will be asked for the cardholder'due south Social Security number; however, when ordering a replacement P-EBT Food Do good card (and merely when ordering a P-EBT Food Benefit card), you must enter 999-99 and then the 2-digit calendar month and two-digit day (MM/DD) of the cardholder's birthday.
    For example, if your child's appointment of birth is July four, you would enter 999-99-0704 when asked for the child's Social Security number.
• Yous will then be asked to verify the cardholder's 8-digit birthday (MM/DD/YYYY) and to enter the iv-digit Personal Identification Number (Pivot) yous selected for the P-EBT nutrient benefit menu that you are replacing. If you did not previously create a PIN, you will still exist able to gild a replacement card by following the prompts.

Please note that P-EBT nutrient benefits will remain available and accessible on your P-EBT Food Do good carte du jour for at least 274 days from the date they were issued. Once you have ready a PIN to admission your P-EBT food benefits, you can cheque your family's P-EBT food do good residue by visiting www.connectebt.com or by calling 1-888-328-6399.

How do I admission the P-EBT food benefits if they are on a NYS Medicaid card?

To access your P-EBT food benefits using your NYS Medicaid carte, you lot must accept a Personal Identification Number (PIN).

• If you do non already have a Pin, you can select 1 over the phone past calling ane-888-328-6399. Please be prepared to provide security information, including your nix code and the final four digits of the cardholder'south Social Security number, to complete this process.
• For detailed instructions on how to select a PIN for your NYS Medicaid card view the Activating a NYS Medicaid Card for P-EBT Nutrient Benefits video at: https://youtu.exist/EwwFPUDLX8o.
• For written instructions on how to select a PIN for your NYS Medicaid card visit: otda.ny.gov/SNAP-COVID-19/P-EBT-Medicaid-Card-PIN-Instructions.asp.

IMPORTANT: Please be certain to hold on to your NYS Medicaid card in the issue that boosted P-EBT food benefits are issued to your kid in the future.

How do I order a replacement NYS Medicaid Bill of fare?

• If the cardholder receives Medicaid through your local department of social services, you lot tin can order a replacement NYS Medicaid Carte past calling 1-888-328-6399. Please be prepared to provide security information, including the cardholder's date of birth and Social Security number.
• If the cardholder receives Medicaid through the New York Land of Wellness: Wellness Plan Market place, yous can order a replacement NYS Medicaid menu past calling 1-855-355-5777. Please be prepared to provide security information, including the business relationship holder's name, Social Security number, business relationship number or health care exchange identification number.

Please note that P-EBT food benefits will remain bachelor and accessible on your NYS Medicaid card for at least 274 days from the date they were issued. One time you accept gear up a Pin to access your P-EBT food benefits, y'all can check your family'southward P-EBT nutrient do good balance by visiting www.connectebt.com or by calling 1-888-328-6399.

How exercise I utilize an EBT bill of fare (NYS Medicaid card or P-EBT Nutrient Benefit carte)?

An EBT card looks and is used similar a banking concern debit card to buy food at authorized retail food stores. For more information on how to use an EBT card visit: http://otda.ny.gov/workingfamilies/ebt/.

To detect authorized retail nutrient stores near y'all, the SNAP Retailer Locator tin can be found at https://world wide web.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator.

What can I purchase with my child/children'due south P-EBT nutrient benefits?

While P-EBT food benefits are not SNAP benefits, they can just exist used to buy the same nutrient items that can be purchased with SNAP benefits at authorized retail food stores. A detailed list of food items that may exist purchased with food benefits can exist establish at http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligible-food-items/.

Will I need to pay back my child/children's P-EBT food benefits?

No. Families who receive P-EBT nutrient benefits will non have to pay back the benefits.

Do I have to use my child/children's P-EBT food benefits correct abroad?

No. P-EBT nutrient benefits will remain available and attainable on your NYS Medicaid card or P-EBT Food Benefit menu for at least 274 days from the appointment they are issued. You lot can check your family unit's P-EBT nutrient do good balance by visiting www.connectebt.com or past calling ane-888-328-6399.

Volition receiving P-EBT food benefits touch my family's 'public charge' condition?

Receiving P-EBT food benefits will not bear upon the 'public charge' status for non-citizen households.

Should I contact my local department of social services if I have questions about P-EBT food benefits?

No. P-EBT food benefits are existence issued by the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance. They are not SNAP benefits, and your local section of social services has no information about your eligibility for these benefits, and no information nearly when you will receive these benefits if you are eligible.

Do my homeschooled child/children qualify for P-EBT food benefits?

Only children who receive free lunch at school are eligible for P-EBT food benefits. Households with homeschooled children practise non usually receive gratuitous school lunches and therefore are not eligible for P-EBT nutrient benefits. Homeschooling is not the same equally attending school remotely. Please contact your schoolhouse commune with questions concerning access to the National School Luncheon Program.

What if I get P-EBT nutrient benefits for my children only practice not desire or need the benefits? Can I give them to somebody who does need them or donate them to my local nutrient banking company?

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has advised that P-EBT food benefits are not transferable and cannot be donated. The P-EBT food benefits are intended for you to use to buy food for yous and your kid[ren]. USDA advises that if you and your family accept received a P-EBT Food Do good card and do not want to use the benefits to buy food, you lot should dispose of the card by cutting through the magnetic stripe on the card or shredding the card and discarding it in a secure manner. If your kid[ren]'s P-EBT food benefits were issued to a NYS Medicaid card do Not dispose of the bill of fare—you are required to keep this card while enrolled in Medicaid.

P-EBT nutrient benefits volition remain available and attainable on your NYS Medicaid card or P-EBT Food Do good bill of fare for at least 274 days from the appointment they are issued.

We appreciate your interest in supporting the diet needs of those in your customs during these hard times. In nearly communities, there are a number of nonprofit organizations that accept donations—including donations of non-perishable food items and/or donations of money they can apply to buy food—to assist those in your customs who do not have plenty nutrient. For more information delight visit: coronavirus.wellness.ny.gov/food-pantries

What well-nigh P-EBT food benefits for the 2019-20 school yr?

New York State has completed issuing P-EBT food benefits payments for the 2019-20 schoolhouse year. Nosotros are therefore no longer accepting inquiries almost eligibility for P-EBT food benefits for the 2019-20 schoolhouse year. Nevertheless, if you have already sent us your information, your inquiry is in procedure and you will be notified by OTDA of the result of our review.

Are there other food benefits or programs besides P-EBT food benefits that tin help my family?

Yep. If your family does not already receive SNAP, you can meet if you lot are eligible for and apply for SNAP past visiting www.mybenefits.ny.gov.

To locate a food pantry in your expanse visit coronavirus.health.ny.gov/food-pantries

To discover a location where you tin pick up complimentary meals for your kid/children:

• Visit the USDA Meals for Kids Site Finder at www.fns.usda.gov/meals4kids
• Text "Food" or "Comida" to 877-877
• Call the USDA National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-HUNGRY or 1-877-viii-HAMBRE (Spanish)
• Phone call 211 for New York State Residents
• Call 311 if you live in New York Metropolis

Where do I go if I take questions near P-EBT nutrient benefits?

If you accept questions, you may call the P-EBT Food Benefits Helpline: 1-833-452-0096 or visit: P-EBT Information Grade to submit a question in writing.

Preguntas Frecuentes sobre los Subsidios de Transferencia Electrónica de Beneficios (P-EBT, por sus siglas en inglés) a Raíz de la Pandemia

Final updated: August 20, 2021, 3:00PM

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Source: https://otda.ny.gov/SNAP-COVID-19/Frequently-Asked-Questions-Pandemic-EBT.asp

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