What is SUN Bucks?
SUN Bucks (Summer EBT) provides grocery-buying benefits to low-income families with school-aged children when schools are closed for the summer. Through SUN Bucks, eligible school children receive pre-loaded cards that families can use to purchase groceries. Beginning this Summer 2024, families will receive an extra $120 per eligible child, per summer.
These benefits work alongside other FNS nutrition programs including SNAP, WIC, and Summer Meals to ensure every child has equitable access to nutrition over the summer months.
Who Is Eligible for SUN Bucks?
Students are eligible for SunBucks if they:
- Attend a District of Columbia Public School, a DC Charter School, or a DC private school participating in the National School Lunch Program;,
- Are enrolled in a PreK, elementary, middle, or high school, or are an adult learner; AND
- Live in a household with an annual income less than or equal to 185 percent of the federal poverty level. For example, for a family of 4, that’s $55,000.
Your student is pre-approved if they are between 5 and 18 years old and received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) at any point between July 1, 2023-March 22, 2024
Pre-approved students can change their mailing address or opt out here.
If your child is not preapproved, you can fill out the SunBucks application opening on June 3rd. Sign up to get an alert when the application opens here.
How To Apply for SUN Bucks?
If your child is not pre-approved, you can fill out the SUN Bucks application opening on June 3rd. Sign up to get an alert when the application opens here.
SUN Bucks Contact Information
- D.C. Hunger Solutions help line: 202-640-1088.
- D.C. Hunger Solutions email: info@dchunger.org
- District of Columbia SUN Bucks Issues Form (English) (Spanish) (Ahmaric)
- District of Columbia SUN Bucks email: sunbucks@dc.gov