Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: Summary Report

Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: Summary Report

Published: Aug 07, 2015
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates, Inc. in partnership with Mathematica Policy Research and Maximus

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

Anne Wolf

Gretchen Rowe

Chris Logan

Ayesha Enver

Syeda Fatima

Anne Gordon

The demonstration showed that the program can be implemented, using either the SNAP or WIC model, at a large scale, in a range of communities, and with a variety of implementation approaches. Nearly all households that received benefits used them, and that the households that used benefits at least once used the vast majority of the benefits issued to them. Of highest policy relevance, the impact evaluation shows that receiving benefits improves children’s food security and nutrition.

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