Low-income families in California will receive $365 per child to buy food during the next two months to make up for the loss of free and reduced-priced lunches previously provided by the schools.
, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that low-income families would receive $365 per child to buy food during the next two months to make up for the loss of free and reduced-priced lunches previously provided by the schools.
“We think that is a significant thing,” Newsom said during his daily coronavirus briefing. “We are going to do our best to get [the money] in people’s pockets because we deeply recognize people’s food insecurity, not just their economic insecurity.”, or Medi-Cal or foster care programs do not need to apply for the extra money. They will receive a new pandemic electronic benefit transfer card in the mail in May.
The governor also said that the state received 190,000 applications in unemployment applications fromAdvertisement
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