{"id":5503,"date":"2020-04-24T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:00:36","slug":"usda-to-fund-food-assistance-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/2020\/04\/24\/usda-to-fund-food-assistance-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA To Fund Food Assistance For Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Illinois Department of Human Services declared that the United States Department of Agriculture is funding Illinois\u2019 Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer or P-EBT, a program designed to assist families with children during the pandemic. P-EBT is providing $112 million in food benefits to eligible families with children in school. The IDHS measured the\u00a0supplementary benefits\u00a0as $5.70 per child per day. Benefits will\u00a0be added to current family Link card owners automatically\u00a0and\u00a0families who currently\u00a0do not receive SNAP benefits can fill out an application for the P-EBT. Families who are eligible for the P-EBT can expect to receive the supplementary benefits April 20th &#8211; April 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Department of Human Services declared that the United States Department of Agriculture is funding Illinois\u2019 Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer or P-EBT, a program designed to assist families with children during the pandemic. P-EBT is providing $112 million in food benefits to eligible families with children in school. The IDHS measured the\u00a0supplementary benefits\u00a0as $5.70 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5504,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}