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CFPA Budget Request Sign on Letter 2017-18 Budget |
Support for low-income households with unsafe drinking water in the 2017-18 Budget
We are calling on our partners to sign on to our letter requesting the Legislature work with the Administration to support a $5 million initiative to provide supplemental nutrition assistance to households without safe drinking water in the 2017-18 budget.
The state's CalFresh Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system would deliver time-limited nutrition benefits to mitigate the burden of purchasing water for drinking and cooking for households without safe water. While past state investments and recent rains have brought significant improvements to the California’s water crisis, there are still a number of communities in the state where a long-term solution for safe drinking water is not yet in place.
Read the letter here: http://bit.ly/2o6xi0V