2024 Pandemic Ebt. Eligibility requirements and benefit amounts differ between the two programs, and sun bucks is a new permanent program where pandemic ebt was temporary support during. To alleviate the effects of lost daily school meals and to help households with children meet their nutritional needs, congress authorized a new program, pandemic ebt, which.

In december 2022, congress made summer ebt permanent starting in 2024 after the usda had tested it for several years. Territories, and tribes that have committed to launching the summer ebt program in summer 2024 will serve close to 21 million children, providing a total of nearly $2.5 billion in grocery benefits.