Thousands of families eligible for summer food money haven’t applied

August 9, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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STATEWIDE — TIME IS RUNNING OUT for eligible families to take advantage of the Summer EBT federal food benefits program, which amounts to $120 per child, Chalkbeat reports. Some families are already receiving the summer food benefits, but hundreds of thousands of eligible families still have yet to apply, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday. The deadline is Sept. 3.

“No child should ever, ever go hungry because the cost of living was just too damn high for their parents and their families,” Hochul said Thursday at a press conference on the Lower East Side. Full details at chalkbeat.org.

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