The state told the Agriculture Department that it won't participate in the federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children program.

Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out, state officials have announced.

The state has notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it will not participate in the 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children — or Summer EBT — program, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education said in a Friday news release.

“Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families. An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic,” Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said in the news release.

  • @eek2121
    10•9 months ago

    These clowns better be happy i am not a billionaire. I’d be sending a check to every damn household with kids in the state.

    • @LemmyKnowsBest
      5•9 months ago

      Billionaires don’t spend their money. If they did, they wouldn’t be billionaires.

      • @hperrin
        1•9 months ago

        They spend their money on investing in oil and gas companies, then buying lawmakers to write subsidies for oil and gas companies.

        • @LemmyKnowsBest
          2•9 months ago

          with all that going on, not surprising they find it impossible to care about the well-being of citizens.