To support New Yorkers through the COVID-19 and financial crises, about a half-billion dollars in food stamps, at $420 apiece, are being issued to every city student. Those who already receive such assistance have had this extra money added to their accounts, but in coming weeks the funds are going to two groups who otherwise haven’t been eligible: undocumented immigrants, and higher income earners.
That poses an interesting quandary for more well-off New Yorkers: What should they do with the P-EBT (Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer) cards that will arrive in the mail with their children’s names on them? They can’t be handed to a needy neighbor -- that’d be fraud. And city officials recommend against throwing the cards out, because that’d be free federal money going unused.
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