The Oregon Trail Card (EBT) system is used to provide funds to ALL eligible students. Existing Oregon Trail Card beneficiaries will have these additional funds added to their cards. Families who do not already have a card will receive one with a letter explaining the program.
Households will receive benefits equivalent to one free lunch and one free breakfast for each eligible student, $5.70 per regularly scheduled school day through the end of the school year. This includes days during the months of March, April, May and June.
Benefits will be retroactive to March 16, 2020 for students who were eligible to receive free and reduced-price meals at the time that schools closed due to the Pandemic. For newly eligible free or reduced-price students, benefits will start at the beginning of the month that the family's application is certified as eligible. Eligible families will receive the following for each student:
- $69 for March
- $126 in April
- $120 in May
- $69 in June