Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration:

2012 Congressional Status Report and Appendices Contract #: AG-3198-C-11-0002

The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children conducted its initial proof-of-concept during the summer of 2011. The SEBTC demonstration aims to mitigate summer child food insecurity by leveraging existing EBT technologies used by the WIC and SNAP programs.

Final Congressional Status Report on the 2012 Summer Food Service Program Enhancement Demonstrations

This study was the first in a series of studies that estimated the extent of retailer-level SNAP benefit trafficking. The major findings included large stores having only half the store violation rate that smaller stores had. Additionally, the overall benefit trafficking rate was 13.0% as compared to 1.3% in the latest trafficking rate study.