Application and Eligibility; P-EBT

(b) Children will be eligible for P-EBT in each month from September 2022 to May 2023 based on the following criteria:

(A) Were part of a household that received more than $0 in SNAP for at least one month between September 2022 and May 11, 2023; and

(B) Under six years of age.

(c) Children that were part of a household that applied for SNAP benefits on or after May 12, 2023, are not eligible for P-EBT

(2) Program Period June 2023 through August 2023 (Summer 2023)

(a) There is no application for P-EBT program period June 2023 through August 2023.

(b) NSLP students will be eligible for P-EBT from June 2023 through August 2023 based on the following criteria:

(A) An NSLP student is eligible for P-EBT if, by May 2023, the NSLP student was enrolled at a school that provides meal service as a sponsored NSLP school , and they meet one of the following:

(i) Was determined income eligible based on NSLP eligibility criteria as determined by Oregon Department of Education (ODE), the local education agency, or a state agency that ODE has designated to determine student eligibility for P-EBT;

(ii) Was a SNAP participant or part of a household that received TANF for at least one month between June 2023 and August 2023;

(iii) Enrolled with the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR);

(iv) Was a youth placed in foster care;

(v) Participant in the Migrant Education Program (MEP); or

(vi) Participant in the McKinney-Vento Act's Education of Homeless Children and Youth Program.

(B) P-EBT eligibility is determined by the child’s school designation as a sponsored NSLP school.

(C) NSLP students who submitted a free or reduced price meals application by August 31, 2023 and are determined eligible under federal income limits will receive P-EBT benefits back to the start of the P-EBT program period.

(D) NSLP Students who are determined eligible for free and reduced meals under Oregon’s Extended Income Limits and were not SNAP participants beginning October 1, 2020, are not eligible for P-EBT.

(E) School children who are homeschooled, enrolled in a virtual charter school, or enrolled in a school that does not participate in NSLP are not eligible for P-EBT.

(F) Children under the age of 6 who are part of an active SNAP case between June 2023 and August 2023 are not eligible for P-EBT.