{"id":405205,"date":"2024-02-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=405205"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"11-000-CNMI-kids-will-each-be-eligible-for-177-food-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/11-000-CNMI-kids-will-each-be-eligible-for-177-food-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"11,000 CNMI kids will each be eligible for $177 food assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 11,000 children in the CNMI will each be eligible to receive $177 in food assistance through the new Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer program, or Summer EBT program, this year, according to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Besides keeping children fed in summer when school meals are not available, the Summer EBT program will also pump about $1.9 million into the Marianas economy, with a predicted multiplier effect as high as $3.8 million, said Sablan in his <em>e-kilili<\/em> newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>He said the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday the Summer EBT program benefits, adjusting the amount for the Marianas to reflect the higher costs of food here.<\/p>\n<p>According to the USDA, children in the CNMI, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands will receive $59 food assistance monthly, or $177 in total in a three-month period.<\/p>\n<p>Children in the 40 states and the District of Columbia will receive $40 monthly in food assistance, or $120 in total in a three-month period.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives pushed for the Summer EBT program in the Consolidated Appropriations Act; only nine Republicans voted in favor of the program.<\/p>\n<p>The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (Public Law 117-328) authorized a permanent, nationwide Summer EBT program beginning in 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/07d9a2b3ac87421428946be42f1e8fa6.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 11,000 children in the CNMI will each be eligible to receive $177 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}