Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) food cards worth $1.46 million were accidentally sent to ineligible children.
Ineligible Children Accidentally Receive Thousands of P-EBT Food Cards
The Department of Human Services (DHS) in Oregon revealed they have accidentally sent thousands of P-EBT food cards worth $1.46 million to several children who are not eligible to receive them.
According to the DHS, the temporary program provides relief to several low-income families affected by the pandemic with children studying in school, wherein they send $391 food cards to each eligible child to use for their meals in school.
Unfortunately, the agency accidentally sent lots of P-EBT food cards to almost 3,700 ineligible children, supposedly received by thousands of eligible children in need – the same mistake they had in 2021, KGW reported.
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Ineligible Children Were Not Required to Return The P-EBT Food Cards
The eligible children who receive P-EBT food cards are reportedly eligible for free lunch or reduced lunch aside from children aged six and are included in SNAP beneficiaries, which will be accessible by the ineligible children who accidentally received the food cards.
The agency has already recovered almost $1.32 million worth of food cards; however, they do not require those who spent the money to pay them back because it wasn’t their fault.
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