This policy memorandum provides guidance in response to WIC state agency questions concerning reporting participation on the FNS-798 during the first quarter of fiscal year 2010.
This memorandum provides guidance to WIC state and local agencies regarding military combat pay received by service members during a deployment.
This memorandum provides guidance to WIC state and local agencies regarding military combat pay received by service members during a deployment.
This policy memorandum provides guidance for WIC state and local agencies in determining income eligibility for state and federal employees in instances where such employees experience a temporary decrease in earning due to being furloughed or having their pay deferred because of a state budget impasse or the temporary shutdown of the agency were they are employed, without pay.
The purpose of this policy memorandum is to clarify that women who breastfeed infants that they did not give birth to ("nonbirth mothers"), may be certified to participate in the WIC program as breastfeeding women at state option.
The attached policy memorandum clarifies the requirements WIC agencies must meet to spend federal WIC grant funds on a dietetic supervised practice program or other out-of-service training program for WIC staff and eligible in-kind staff. WIC agencies that incurred WIC-allowable training costs.
PL 103-448 requires coordination between the WIC program and state Medicaid programs that use coordinated or managed care providers under contract or under waiver authority as permitted under the Social Security Act.
This memorandum provides policy clarification about WIC allowable costs for activities related to immunization promotion in the WIC program.
In compliance with the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Department will not approve future IFBs or contracts that include provisions that erroneously restrict competition for WIC infant formula rebates.
This policy memorandum is simply a clarification of general WIC program confidentiality principals delineated in the Program Regulations and FCS Instruction 800-1 with special emphasis on provisions which affect immunization promotion activities.