The federal Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has recently provided States with guidance to continue giving Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) benefits for October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021. A student is eligible for P-EBT if: • The student would be eligible for free or reduced-price meals if...

Since March 2020, SNAP households that were not already receiving the maximum SNAP benefit amount for their household size received an increase to their benefits to bring them to the maximum amount. The federal government approved a similar increase for December 2020. On December 3rd,...

The Rhode Island Department of Human Services (DHS) is announcing changes to its Call Center hours for Thanksgiving week, November 23 to 27, 2020. Due to the holiday, we will be closed on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26, 2020. To help with the high volume of calls coming in, we will also...

The Department of Human Services (DHS) recently changed the bank that issues State Supplemental Payments (SSP). As a result, the Department learned Monday that about 8,000 SSP recipients did not get their benefits direct deposited on November 1, 2020. DHS has a list of impacted SSP customers...