ELIGIBILITY
A household that includes at least one eligible child.
What is Eligible household?
The process of verifying eligibility by matching against data sources or other records without needing to externally contact the households for documentation.
What is Direct verification?
The purchasing of a product with Summer EBT benefits with the intent of obtaining cash.
What is Trafficking?
The Act that created the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program
What is the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act?
Which Department in the federal government does programs like SNAP and S-EBT receive directives from?
What is the U.S. Department of Agriculture? (USDA)
A child who meets the requirements to receive Summer EBT benefits
What is Eligible child?
Automatically enrolling an eligible child for Summer EBT, without the need for further application or confirmation of school enrollment.
What is Streamlined certification?
The foods containing nutrients considered necessary for growth in the diets of children as determined by nutritional research
What are Supplemental foods?
This agency administers federal nutrition assistance programs like SNAP and WIC, aiming to end hunger and obesity in the United States.
It prioritizes making nutritious foods accessible, particularly for Native American families and those living on Indian Reservations.
What is the (FNS) or Food and Nutrition Service?
The period from July 1 of the prior year through one day before the summer operational period is set to begin
What is the instructional year?
The household and income standards for determining eligibility for reduced price meals
under the National School Lunch and Breakfast programs. These standards are updated annually.
What are Income Eligibility Guidelines?
Sampling applications for verification on a rolling basis from the beginning of the instructional year right until the summer operational period begins.
What is Rolling verification?
An error resulting from a malfunction at any point in the redemption process.
These adjustments may occur after the availability date and may result in another issuance to the household.
What is a System Error?
The reveal or use of a child's eligibility information, obtained through the S-EBT eligibility process, for a purpose outside of the purpose for which the information was originally obtained.
What is Disclosure?
The document used for public solicitations of competitive proposals from qualified sources
What is Request for Proposal (RFP)?
A foster child, homeless child, a migrant child, a Head Start child and a runaway child are defined as this.
It may also be referred to as "automatic eligibility."
What is "categorically eligible?"
The verification of questionable applications, on a case-by-case basis, for example: when the Summer EBT agency is made aware of conflicting or inconsistent information.
What is Verification for cause?
A method to access EBT benefits issued to a household member or authorized representative.
This method may feature an on-line magnetic stripe card, an off-line smart card, a chip card, a contactless digital wallet with a stored card, or any other similar benefit access technology approved by USDA.
What is an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card?
A brief written plan of action that requests federal financial participation (FFP) to accomplish the planning activities necessary for a S-EBT agency to acquire the information necessary to prepare an Implementation Advance Planning Document (IAPD)
What is a Planning Advanced Planning Document (PAPD)?
S-EBT eligibility is based on the eligibility standards for
What is The National School Lunch Program/School Breakfast Program (based on the Income Eligibility Guidelines)?
Categorically eligible verifies income as eligible for Summer EBT based on documentation that a child is a member of a household and that one or more children in that same household are receiving assistance under one of these federal programs: ____, _____, _____ or another means tested program, as approved by the Secretary.
What is SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and FDPIR (Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations)?
The removal of Summer-EBT benefits from the EBT account to which they were issued.
Can occur if a household does not comply with verification.
What is Expungement?
When a child is simultaneously receiving benefits from more than one State or ITO-administered Summer EBT Program,
or simultaneously receiving multiple allotments from the same State or ITO-administered Summer EBT Program.
What is Dual Participation?
The final ____ must be approved by the Food and Nutrition Service before the S-EBT agency may draw Federal food benefit funds for the fiscal year.
What is Plan for Operations and Management (POM)?
As a condition for the initial and continued ability to claim Federal financial participation (FFP), agencies must adhere to the
What is Advanced Planning Document (APD) process?