Back-to-school breaking the bank? SUN Bucks is here to help

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – School whitethorn person started, but the summertime SUN Bucks programme is inactive disposable to assistance parents chopped the outgo of feeding their children.

According to the California Association of Food Banks (CAFB), the caller SUN Bucks programme provides eligible families with $120 per child to store astatine their section market stores.

Enrollment is automatic for families enrolled successful CalFresh, CalWORKS, oregon Medi-Cal. Families that are not automatically enrolled are inactive encouraged to use if their children are approved for escaped oregon reduced-price meals.

CAFB says the SUN Bucks indispensable beryllium spent wrong 122 days of being loaded onto the S-EBT paper (which volition beryllium sent successful the mail). Due to the deadline, CAFB recommends families with EBT walk their SUN Bucks first.

The deadline to use is Aug. 31. Parents tin inquire their child’s schoolhouse for the schoolhouse repast exertion oregon alternate income signifier to apply.

The California Department of Social Services says Californians who received a SUN Bucks paper this summertime that experienced nutrient nonaccomplishment owed to the caller wildfires and powerfulness outages whitethorn beryllium eligible for a afloat oregon partial replacement of benefits. Residents from the pursuing counties whitethorn beryllium eligible:

To study nutrient loss, interaction (877) 328-9677 by Aug. 31.