HARRISBURG, Pa. (WJAC) — The Department of Human Services announced Tuesday that the state has received $224 million in food assistance for families with young kids. The state received approval from the USDA to extend pandemic electronic benefit transfer to families enrolled in the state’s SNAP program.

As part of the latest COVID-19 relief package, the federal government has expanded the child tax credit and made it available to all families with children except those with the highest incomes.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services provided an update Thursday on public assistance enrollment numbers for March 2021.

President Joe Biden will lay out the contours of his latest ambitious legislative proposal — his “American Families Plan” — in his address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, calling on lawmakers to pass what the White House is calling “a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s future.”

Pennsylvania would need to increase its spending on preschool by $250 million per year to assure all eligible children have access to a high quality program, according to the annual report by the National Institute of Early Education Research.