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DCFS Offering Help With SNAP Applications at Ochsner Health Center Lapalco
August 20, 2024
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services is offering in-person public assistance services at Ochsner Health Center Lapalco three days a week. The partnership supports a common goal of Ochsner's Healthy State initiative and DCFS’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): reducing food insecurity in Louisiana.
DCFS Opens SUN Bucks Applications for Phase 3
August 19, 2024
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) announced the opening of the Phase 3 SUN Bucks application period on August 19, 2024.
DCFS Offers Noncustodial Parents a Chance to Get “On the Road Again”
August 08, 2024
As Child Support Awareness Month begins, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is announcing a limited-time promotion for parents who have lost their driver's licenses due to unpaid child support.
Phase 2 SUN Bucks Benefits Start Going Out This Week
July 23, 2024
Following the successful rollout of Phase 1 of SUN Bucks, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services will begin issuing Phase 2 SUN Bucks benefits this week, Phase 2 will be rolling out in waves based on eligibility groups over the next several weeks, impacting around 320,000 Louisiana school-aged children. Eligible students include those who received Medicaid, Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP), or Kinship Care Subsidy Program (KCSP) benefits during the 2023-2024 school year, as well as children who qualified for free or reduced-price school meals.
SUN Bucks Going Out This Week to Phase 1 Recipients
June 17, 2024
The first phase of SUN Bucks benefits will be issued this week to approximately 300,000 children, ages 5-18, who received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits during the 2023-2024 school year.
Louisiana Participating in SUN Bucks Summer EBT Program
May 06, 2024
Louisiana will participate in the SUN Bucks program for school-aged children this summer, helping to provide more nutritious meals to students during the summer months.
Be There for Louisiana's Children: Become a Foster Caregiver!
May 01, 2024
This Foster Care Awareness Month, DCFS is asking Louisianans to be there for children by becoming a foster caregiver.
DCFS, Plaquemines Parish Government Unite to Help with SNAP Applications
February 26, 2024
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is pleased to announce it has partnered with the Plaquemines Parish Government to provide public assistance services in the Plaquemines Parish Government Building at 333 F Edward Hebert Blvd., Building 600, in Belle Chasse, LA.
Louisiana Will Not Participate in Summer EBT
February 09, 2024
Louisiana will not participate in Summer EBT.
Increase in Social Security, Veterans Benefits Means Decreases for Some SNAP, FITAP, and KCSP Recipients
December 21, 2023
More than 130,000 Louisiana families who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP) and Kinship Care Subsidy Program (KCSP) benefits will see those benefits decrease in January due to receiving a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase to their Social Security and veterans benefits for 2024.