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New! SUN Bucks Grocery Benefit Means More $ for Food This Summer

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Nearly 30 million children participate in USDA’s school breakfast and lunch programs on an average school day. When school is out for the summer, kids lose access to these healthy meals, but they still need nutritious food to grow healthy and strong.

This year, Virginia is offering the new SUN Bucks grocery benefit that provides families $120 per eligible school-aged child, so you can stretch your grocery budget and buy more of the foods your children love! SUN Bucks is designed to work together with other benefits your family may already get, like SNAP and WIC. Not everyone will automatically be enrolled in this program. If you receive WIC or SNAP you do not have to do anything, you will receive these benefits. If not and you want to know if you are eligible for this program, go to Virginia SUN Bucks starting July 1st, to find out if you are eligible and all the summer nutrition options available to your family.