TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon, Anne R.
TI  - Delivering summer electronic benefit transfers for children through the supplemental nutrition assistance program or the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children: benefit use and impacts on food security and foods consumed 
PY  - 2017///
KW  - Children’s food consumption
KW  - Children’s food security
KW  - Special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC)
KW  - Summer food assistance
KW  - Supplemental Nutrition assistance program (SNAP)
N1  - Nutrition
N2  - Background: The Summer Electronic Benefit Transfers for Children (SEBTC) demonstration piloted summer food assistance through electronic benefit transfers (EBTs), providing benefits either through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) EBT. Objective: To inform food assistance policy and describe how demonstrations using WIC and SNAP models differed in benefit take-up and impacts on food security and children's food consumption. Design: Sites chose to deliver SEBTC using the SNAP or WIC EBT system. Within each site, in 2012, households were randomly assigned to a benefit group or a no-benefit control group. Participants: Grantees (eight states and two Indian Tribal Organizations) selected school districts serving many low-income children. Schoolchildren were eligible in cases where they had been certified for free or reduced-price meals during the school year. Before the demonstration, households in the demonstration sample had lower incomes and lower food security, on average, than households with eligible children nationally. Intervention: Grantees provided selected households with benefits worth
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