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Secure .gov websites use HTTPS LDH is moving forward with a plan to distribute food benefits on EBT cards. If the USDA, who administers the SNAP program, is prepared and ready to move money into states’ accounts, we will use federal dollars to fund SNAP recipients’ accounts. If they are not ready, LDH will proceed with our state-funded program to provide food assistance to the elderly, the disabled, and households with children through their existing EBT cards.
August 28, 2015 EVV Update Letter to Louisiana Home and Community-Based Providers
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, - Over the last year we have provided updates regarding the implementation of a new Electronic Visit Verification (EVY) system to help better manage home and communitybased services and supports. The Department opted to move implementation :from April 2015 to July 2015, and then until September 2015, in order to allow First Data, the State's contractor implementing the system, to complete the necessary work to deliver an EVV system that met the needs of the Department and our providers. Click below for entire letter.