Texas and New Jersey have been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer, a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures, said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in a news release last month. Pandemic EBT is a supplemental food purchasing benefit to current participants in the Agriculture Department’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and is a new electronic benefit transfer program available to other eligible households to offset the cost of meals that would have otherwise been consumed at ...