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Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: Evaluation Findings for the Full Implementation Year - 2012 Final Report

Collins, Ann M., Ronette Briefel, Jacob Alex Klerman, Gretchen Rowe, Anne Wolf, Christopher W. Logan, Anne Gordon, Carrie Wolfson, Ayesha Enver, Cheryl Owens, Charlotte Cabilib, Stephen Bella

Report

June 15, 2015
The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) demonstration offered a rigorous test of the impact of providing a monthly benefit of $60 per child - using existing electronic benefit transfer (EBT) systems - on food insecurity among children during the summer when school meals are not available. In the second year of operations, when the demonstration was fully implemented, the evaluation found that this approach could reach up to 75 percent of eligible children and reduce the prevalence of very low food security among children by about one-third.
View the summary of the final report.