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WIC safeguards the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 by providing supplemental foods, nutrition education, and healthcare referrals.
The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program and state WIC agencies handle local WIC administration.
The USDA is in charge of the WIC programme. It is a domestic discretionary programme that is yearly funded by the Senate and House Appropriations Committees of the United States.
WIC women are eligible to get free food, including beans, cereal, cheese, eggs, infant formula, juice, milk, and peanut butter, much of it farm surplus.
WIC offers an average of $62 per participant each month to spend on nutritious food. Participants who are pregnant can earn an additional $40 in EatSF fruit and vegetable coupons each month.
The Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) programme now offers food benefits via the new computerised system known as eWIC. WIC participants formerly utilised paper vouchers to buy permitted items.