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The
U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) National
Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded the Massachusetts
Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) a grant through the Food
Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program to expand its Healthy
Incentives Pilot into a Healthy
Incentives Program (HIP) that will serve participants of the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) statewide. The program will
provide a 100 percent incentive – a dollar-for-dollar match – for
each SNAP dollar spent on targeted fruits and vegetables purchased at
farmers’ markets, farm stands, mobile markets, and Community
Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs statewide. These incentives
will be calculated and instantly applied to the SNAP recipient’s EBT
card, and information on the incentive earned and SNAP account
balance will be provided on the accompanying receipt. The maximum
incentive that can be earned each month will be based on household size.
Households with 1-2 members will be capped at $40, households with 3-5
members will be capped at $60, and households with 6 or more members
will be capped at $80. Maria Infante of Project
BREAD presented
on HIP at the UMass Extension SNAP-Ed Office in Raynham on March 20,
2017. Click here
for a one-hour-and-sixteen-minute 
video of
the presentation. Click
here for an earlier presentation held in Fall River. For more
information about the program, contact Maria
Infante at 617-239-2583. |
