Today began the second phase established by the Department of the Family on monetary aid to purchase unprepared food for students who benefit from the school canteen service.
The link has already been enabled on the agency’s portal so that tutors of students from the Department of Education, and who do not participate in the Family Card, can apply for help. The initial payment of this aid will reach $ 833.14, covering the period from August 2020 to February 2021, and will continue with a monthly deposit of $ 119.02.
According to the Department of the Family, students from families participating in the PA program are in the first phase and began to deposit the money last Friday, to minors that social insurance ended in the digits from 0 to 2.
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This effort will continue on Tuesday, February 23, depositing minors that their social security ends in numbers 3 to 5, then on Wednesday 24 those ending in 6 and 7, while those ending in 8 and 9 will be disbursed on Thursday, March 25th.
Meanwhile, the third phase aimed at students from eligible private or non-profit institutions, who are participating in the Department of Education’s School Lunch program, begins on Friday, February 26, 2021.
According to data provided by the agency, approximately 330 thousand students in Puerto Rico are eligible for this aid, of which 286,787 are students in the public education system and it is estimated that 50 thousand students belong to private or non-private school entities. eligible profits. Students from families participating in the PA program total 219,222.
P-EBT assistance can be used to purchase unprepared food at the more than 3,000 Nutrition Assistance Program (PA) certified businesses around the island and at Family Markets. Each monthly disbursement can be used for up to a period of six months, so families do not have to make use of the total assistance in a single month. For more information on the calendar, FAQs and P-EBT disbursement dates go to pr.gov/pebt/.