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DHS seeks $50 million to continue summer EBT; officials say funding is mostly federal with small state match
Summary
The Department of Human Services told the Joint Budget Committee that Governor’s letter No. 7 would add roughly $50 million in appropriation authority to continue the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer program across the fiscal-year boundary so children can receive benefits through summer 2025.
The Department of Human Services told the Joint Budget Committee that Governor’s letter No. 7 would add roughly $50 million in appropriation authority to continue the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program across the fiscal-year boundary so children can receive benefits through summer 2025.
Mary Franklin, director of the Division of County Operations at the Department of Human Services, told the committee that the program served a little over 293,000 children in summer 2024 and that the agency is estimating between about…
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