Summer EBT 2024 Family Survey

Summer EBT (SEBT), also known as SUNBucks, is a grocery benefit for eligible low-income families with children.  Most states, territories, and tribes opted to offer Summer EBT during its first year in 2024.

No Kid Hungry commissioned a national survey of families during the first year of Summer EBT. Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3) fielded this survey of more than one-thousand low-income parents and caregivers in areas with Summer EBT. The survey explored family experiences with food security and summer food costs, participation in and awareness of S-EBT, opinions of program operations and communications, and future preferences.

A research report of survey findings can be downloaded here. 

A two-page fact sheet from the survey can be downloaded here.