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Feds Approve $248M Food Benefits For 600K NJ Children Feds Approve $248M Food Benefits For 600K NJ Children
Feds Approve $248M Food Benefits For 600K NJ Children Nearly 600,000 New Jersey schoolchildren could quality for extra food benefits that otherwise would have been spent on free or reduced meals at school, officials said. Schools have been closed since mid-March due to the coronavirus outbreak. New Jersey requested assistance from the Trump Administration, which gave its OK on Monday for proximately $248 million in federal aid. Each student who currently quality for subsidized meals will get an extra $416.10, officials said.  Families already receiving aid under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will have the money added to …

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Passaic Sheriff: Probation Violator Nabbed With Dozens Of Bogus Credit, Gift Cards, More Passaic Sheriff: Probation Violator Nabbed With Dozens Of Bogus Credit, Gift Cards, More
Passaic Sheriff: Probation Violator Nabbed With Dozens Of Bogus Credit, Gift Cards, More Two Passaic County sheriff’s detectives who tracked down and arrested a Paterson man wanted on a probation violation found him carrying 19 bogus credit cards, three phony health insurance cards and more, authorities said. Warrant Squad Detectives Scott Stracco and Louis Pagan seized 29-year-old Jean C. Santana on Auburn Street early Tuesday for violating probation by being caught with a weapon, shoplifting and receiving stolen property, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. During the arrest, they found him with the cards, which also included a state Department of Human Services “…

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by Jerry DeMarco