MEMORANDUM

2012 Memorandums

IM-#90      11/16/12

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

FAMILY SUPPORT DIVISION

P.O. BOX 2320

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI

TO:
ALL COUNTY OFFICES
FROM:
ALYSON CAMPBELL, DIRECTOR
SUBJECT:
2012 SEBTC DEMONSTRATION PROJECT SUMMARY

DISCUSSION:

Income Maintenance Memoranda IM-#17, dated February 29, 2012, and IM-#25, dated March 15, 2012, discussed the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children (SEBTC) demonstration project.  During 2012, Missouri expanded the SEBTC project to include additional children from three districts that had participated in the Kansas City area last year, as well as including the St Louis school district. In the 2012 demonstration project, more than 10,600 school-age children eligible for free or reduced school lunches from the two project areas were randomly selected to receive SEBTC benefits. 

The following information summarizes the 2012 SEBTC Demonstration Project:

End of project statistics for Kansas City project area:

End of project statistics for St Louis project area:

The Sesame Street Workshop provided 10,000 "Food for Thought" tool kits for the state to give to SEBTC households.
The SEBTC program will be expanded for 2013.  More information regarding the project will be sent at a later date.

NECESSARY ACTION:

RT


2012 Memorandums