Lamar CISD families with enrolled students may be eligible to receive Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT).

P-EBT provides food benefits to families with enrolled students (up to 21 years of age) who temporarily lost access to free or reduced-price school meals for the 2020–2021 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The P-EBT is issued through an EBT card (similar to a debit card) and families will have one year from the date the benefits were issued to use the P-EBT benefits.

The application for the P-EBT opens June 2, 2021, and the deadline to apply is August 13, 2021. The application is now available for families HERE.

NOTE: If your child attends a middle school in Lamar CISD, you must choose their corresponding junior high school for the application. For example, if your child attends Navarro Middle School, please select George Junior High as your child's campus on your application.

Who is Eligible?

• Students who are certified for free or reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
• Students who attend a Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) or Provision 2 (P2) school that offers free meals to all students.
• Children born after August 1, 2014, in families who received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for at least one month between October 2020 and June 2021.

Who Needs to Apply?

Parents/Guardians must apply if the eligible student is:

• Enrolled in K-12 and NOT part of a family that received SNAP benefits for at least one month between August 2020 and June 2021; and/or
• Born on or before August 1, 2014, and is part of a family who received SNAP benefits for the first time during the 2020-21 school year in May or June 2021.

A parent/guardian does not have to apply if eligible student is:

• Born on or before August 1, 2014, and is part of a family that received SNAP benefits for at least one month between August 2020 and April 2021; and/or
• Born after August 1, 2014, and is part of a family that received SNAP benefits for at least one month between October 2020 and June 2021.

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