Louisiana Families to Receive Summer EBT Funds Starting This Friday

Low-income families in Louisiana will start receiving their Summer EBT funds this Friday, June 21st.

About 300,000 families across the state will receive funds through the SUN Bucks program, providing grocery-buying benefits to these low-income families with school-aged children when schools are closed for the summer.

The program provides families $120 per child in a single payment, with benefits being issued in multiple phases beginning in June.

Those receiving funds on Friday are children ages 5 to 18 who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (also called SNAP.) These additional benefits will be loaded onto families' SNAP cards.

The program will issue benefits in phases. Other program users will receive their EBT cards in the mail when their benefits begin. Following them will be children who received Medicaid or free or reduced lunch last year or other federal assistance. They'll get their benefits in the next few weeks.

Families who do not qualify for the aforementioned forms of aid will need to fill out an application on the state's Louisiana SUN Bucks website.

Under federal regulations, SUN Bucks must be used within 122 days from the date the benefits were issued, or they will be removed from the card.

Once the benefits expire, they cannot be added back to the card.

To learn more about the SUN Bucks program, visit sunbucks.la.gov.