FNS is committed to providing WIC participants with access to a variety of safe and healthy foods, including infant formula, and strongly encourages WIC state agencies to take expedient action to ensure that WIC participants can exchange recalled product on hand, and can use WIC benefits in their EBT balance or on paper WIC food instruments to purchase product that has not been recalled
FNS performed an inventory of EBT procurements and conducted a few interviews with some States and EBT processors. As a results, we developed a technical assistance document with lessons learned and best practices on EBT re-procurements.
A webinar overview on the Transitional Standards for Milk, Sodium, and Whole Grains for Industry Partners.
Webinar on transitional rule for state agencies & school food authorities.
This notice announces the Department's annual adjustments to the Income Eligibility Guidelines to be used in determining eligibility for free and reduced price meals and free milk for the period from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
This webinar provides an overview of the fiscal year 2022 Team Nutrition Training Grant for School Nutrition Professional Readiness and Retention funding opportunity, including information about eligibility, application process, application requirements, and scoring criteria, and more.
Since 1988, FNS has produced biennial reports on WIC participant and program characteristics for use in program monitoring and managing WIC information needs. The PC 2020 report summarizes demographic, income and health-related characteristics and behaviors of participants certified to receive WIC benefits in April 2020.
FNS is allowing WIC agencies to waive conducting compliance investigations of a minimum of five percent of the number of vendors authorized.
This report, the latest in a series of annual reports on WIC eligibility, presents 2019 national and state estimates of the number of people eligible for WIC benefits and the percents of the eligible population and the US population covered by the program, including estimates by participant category. The report also provides estimates by region, state, U.S. territory and race and ethnicity.