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Needy students learning at home to get benefits from state Jeremy P. Kelley © Jeremy P. Kelley Kettering City Schools employees give out school lunch packages to families in a drive-up service at Fairmont High School on March 24, 2020. JEREMY P. KELLEY / STAFF Ohio children who normally get free or reduced-price lunches at school, but have been learning remotely, will soon receive additional food benefits, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer plan (P-EBT) will retroactively pay $5.86 per qualified child, per school day that the child was learning remotely, according to ODJFS. Benefits from remote learning in October and November will be delivered by early to mid-February. Later benefits will be delivered on a two-month lag (December benefits by the end of February; January benefits by the end of March, etc.)

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