Summary of Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Evaluation Findings for the Full Implementation Year 2012

Summary of Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Evaluation Findings for the Full Implementation Year 2012

Published: Aug 30, 2013
Publisher: Alexandria, VA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Research and Analysis

Associated Project

Evaluating the Summer Food for Children Household-Based Demonstrations

Time frame: 2011-2016

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service

Clients

USDA

Authors

Ann M. Collins

Ronette Briefel

Jacob Alex Klerman

Gretchen Rowe

Anne Wolf

Christopher W. Logan

Anne Gordon

Carrie Wolfson

Ayesha Enver

Cheryl Owens

Charlotte Cabili

Stephen Bell

The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) demonstration offered a rigorous test of the impact of providing a monthly benefit of $60 per child - using existing electronic benefit transfer (EBT) systems - on food insecurity among children during the summer when school meals are not available. In the second year of operations, when the demonstration was fully implemented, the evaluation found that this approach could reach up to 75 percent of eligible children and reduce the prevalence of very low food security among children by about one-third.

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