Families to receive enhanced benefits to ensure food access

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RALEIGH - To help family’s access food during the COVID-19 pandemic, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is temporarily increasing benefits for March 2020 and April 2020 to current Food and Nutrition Services, or FNS, recipients in North Carolina.

NCDHHS received federal authority to implement the program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on March 27.