WIC provides nutrition education, supplemental food, health care referrals and breastfeeding support to low-income pregnant and postpartum women, infants and children up to age 5. territories, WIC served 8.6 million low-income women and children per month in 2013-more than half of all infants in the United States and more than a quarter of pregnant women. Additional information is available in NCSL’s WIC Fact Sheet.Īvailable in all states, 34 Indian tribal organizations and the U.S. 1, 2020, the effect of increasing food prices on program funding, and the new nutrition rules to be included in WIC food packages. Among the main topics of consideration as the reauthorization approaches are the low (60 percent) national participation rate, the federal requirement that all WIC agencies implement a WIC Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system by Oct. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC, is up for review and renewal in the Child Nutrition Reauthorization of 2015. In addition to supplemental food, WIC provides nutrition education, health care referrals and breastfeeding support.Over half of all infants born in the United States participate in the WIC program.Only about 60 percent of those eligible have participated in the WIC program each year since 2000.WIC Regulations: 7 CFR Part 246 (01/2014)īy Tadeo Melean | Vol.USDA WIC Fact Sheet|USDA WIC Participant Characteristics.Final Rule: Revision to WIC Food Packages (03/2014).Law, Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
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