Participants in the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) will be able to use from tomorrow Thursday, December 17, 2020, the four (4) percent reserved for purchases in Family Markets, in all certified trade for transactions of the PAN as a temporary measure.
This authorization is given after approving an expenditure requested by the ADSEF to the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) federal agency that administers the PAN program, under the federal Department of Agriculture.
“This is the second time that this waiver has been approved during the emergency period. The first time that the effect of liberalizing the use of resources for the Family Market moves its temporary closure, “says the Secretary of the Department of the Family (DF), Orlando López Belmonte.
For his part, the ADSEF administrator urged participants to “make use of unused resources and review their balances through the www.ebtpr.com platform where they can see their transactions and the profit available before make your purchases. This speeds up the process and allows you to go with the certainty of the additional resources available. “
The official stated that the beneficiaries do not have to carry out any management to access these benefits of the Family Market, since the balances have been enabled so that they are available for use through their Family Card. “The shops are being oriented so that they do not have inconveniences”, the administrator will emphasize.
Four percent of the PAN benefit allocated to Family Markets must be used by regulation within 180 days. After that period, they revert to a general PAN fund to be redistributed among the beneficiaries. “For the reason of reason we have increased the options of the participants to be able to purchase foods in any trade certified for transactions with the PAN. We will continue to seek to facilitate the use of allocated resources for the benefit of participants, “said Fradera Vázquez.
The PAN program currently has 841,149 families, in which there are 1.5 million people supported in their food supply. These include about 344 thousand children under 18, 375 thousand adults over 60 years, 100 thousand people with disabilities, 216 thousand working individuals and 440 thousand who received Social Security income.