Rhonda: Hi guys, it's Rhonda with Kentucky
SPIN. I just wanted to share with you all
real quickly, if you had not heard that there
is some new emergency food benefits that you
may qualify for, for your student. What it
is, is the Cabinet for Health and Family Services,
Department of Community Based Services and
the Kentucky Department of Education have
teamed together and there is funding to help
with the cost when our children could not
go to school.
For those who have received free or reduced
lunch to help to get some funds to help with
that cost. So what it is, is and, also too,
I want to make sure you may not have otherwise
qualified, but you will because of this emergency
assistance. And what it is, is there is time
from March, April, and May that make up for
each student, who received, or would receive
free or reduced lunch if the children were
in school. That in totals $313 and some change
per student.
So what's important here. If you already receive
EBT, it should automatically, if it hasn't
already, go onto your card per student, so
you may have more than one child that is school
aged within the school. So you should automatically
see that on your card.
Also, I want to make sure that you know, that
if you would have qualified for free or reduced
lunch after March 13th, many of our families,
have lost jobs. And so even if you didn't
qualify for free or reduced prior to March
13th, those after you might qualify for these
pandemic, the EBT, funds to help your family.
Also, and this is whether you have signed
up for EBT or not. So what it is, but what
you've got to do. And as I explained others,
a few other situations of qualifying too,
is you need to go online. I will have a link,
in the description of this video.
You need to go on and apply. You just need
your child's student ID number, which you
can find out from your school or in Infinite
Campus you can find out your student's ID
number. Every child, student in Kentucky has
a specific student ID number, and you can
get that on Infinite Campus.
So you will need that and you fill out the
application only once. It will ask you if
you have other children to add, it's simple,
quick. Your name, the school district.
Now I want to make sure you go on and do that
because the deadline for that is June 30th
and we need everybody who would qualify to
go on there to get that help for their families.
Also too, even if you would not otherwise
qualify for free or reduced lunch. But your
child attends a school where they all get
free lunch. You're going to qualify for this
and need to go on and fill that out. Some
schools, because there is such a high number
of free and reduced, they are able to offer
free breakfast and lunch for all students.
Some of our school districts, the whole district
is on it, regardless of the school that you
go to.
Now in some larger ones like Jefferson County,
as an example, not all schools are on free.
But there are certain schools within Jefferson
County that are. So if your child receives
a free breakfast and lunch, you need to go
online and fill this out. I want everybody
to do that. We need this help and we need
to access those funds and don't be too proud.
I need it. You need it. All of us need help
right now. And those funds are there and we
want everybody who would qualify to get it.
So please stay safe and go on there and help
spread the word so that you get this help
for your family. And stay safe I hope everybody
is well and we'll talk soon. Bye bye.
