USDA EBT payments refer to the use of Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards to access benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) . SNAP provides nutrition assistance to eligible, low-income individuals and households via a monthly benefit on an EBT card, which can be used at authorized retailer stores to purchase food. EBT is an electronic system that allows SNAP participants to pay for food using their SNAP benefits. When a participant shops at a SNAP authorized retail store, their SNAP EBT account is debited to reimburse the store for food that was purchased. EBT is in use in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) is a temporary emergency nutrition benefit loaded on EBT cards that are used to purchase food, provided to eligible school children who would have received free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Act if their schools were not closed or operating with reduced hours or attendance for at least 5 consecutive days.