All NYC public school families will receive $420 per child for food benefits through federal coronavirus relief effort

Every public school student in New York City will soon receive more than $400 to help pay for food while school buildings are shut down, regardless of family income.

Through a federal relief effort, the state was recently approved to disperse the Coronavirus Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer, or P-EBT. The sweeping program will automatically send families the equivalent of about $5.70 per day to make up for meals that each student would have been eligible for while in school.

Because New York City is a universal free lunch district, providing no-cost meals to all 1 million students regardless of need, every child in a city-run public school qualifies. It adds up to about $420 per child — retroactive from the time buildings were shuttered in mid-March, through the end of the academic year in June. Across the state, the program will bring in more than $880 million in federal funds.

Charter and parochial students should also benefit, so long as their school participates in the federal school lunch program...

https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/5/20/21265335/nyc-public-school-food-benefits-coronavirus