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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$56,841,532

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES

social-servicesexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_256LA305N1175_012
Award description

CNP SME EBT BENEFITS NON APPR

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

The Buildout's read

What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Louisiana administers EBT benefits for the USDA Child Nutrition Program, supporting food assistance to eligible children.

Sub-sectors
child-nutrition-assistanceebt-benefits-administrationformula-grant-entitlement
Why this matters

Critical infrastructure ensuring food-insecure children access nutrition; one of the highest-volume benefit programs by beneficiary count.

Supply-chain signal

Drives retail and grocery network participation in EBT; strengthens demand for regional food suppliers accepting electronic benefits.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-08. Cost: $0.008569.

Period of performance
Start
2024-10-01
End
2025-09-30
Status
expired286 days ago
Sources

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