The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is expanding food assistance benefits to nearly 1 million children whose access to school meals has been limited due to the pandemic, it aims to support children who attend school virtually.
Beginning March 15 until the end of June, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will automatically issue additional Pandemic-EBT benefits for more than 800-thousand children who don’t have an in-person learning option available to them on a full time basis.
In a statement, Governor Gretchen Whitmer says this expansion helps close the gap for those families struggling financially during this time.
The benefits are retroactive to September and the payments will be disbursed automatically so families don’t need to apply to receive assistance.