FNS Documents & Resources

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service recommends WIC clinics dispose of unused, returned WIC infant formula in accordance with state and local health and safety laws. FNS does not recommend donating unused, returned WIC infant formula to entities such as food banks or food pantries.

The purpose of this memorandum is to ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the federal regulatory scheme related to bidding on single milk- and soy-based infant formula rebate contracts.

This policy memorandum transmits the 2019-2020 Income Eligibility Guidelines for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) that were published in the Federal Register on April 26, 2019.

This memo transmits the requirements for a state agency seeking to implement EBT/CVB at WIC-authorized Farmers and Farmers' Markets.

FNS is notifying WIC state agencies that the WIC Policy Memorandum #2011-6, Authority to Exceed the Maximum Amount of Liquid Infant Formula, dated June 1, 2011, is cancelled.

WIC Policy Memorandum #2017-1, New MIS Guidelines and Revised Procedures for EBT and MIS Grant Funding, dated Oct. 18, 2016, is cancelled.

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance to WIC state agencies in planning, preparing for and responding to the possibility of a human pandemic.

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance to WIC state agencies in planning, preparing for and responding to the possibility of a human pandemic.

Value Enhancement Nutrition Assessment (VENA) 

The purpose of the memorandum is to set forth policy in the APD process for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. These policy changes and/or clarifications should lessen the burden of the current WIC APD process, and are effective immediately.