An Alabama Department of Public Health – Division of WIC publication for participants using Electronic Benefit Transfers (EBT) for purchasing WIC approved foods in Alabama.
An Alabama Department of Public Health – Division of WIC publication that outlines policies and procedures for selling WIC approved foods to participants in Alabama.
An Alaska Department of Health and Social Services WIC publication that outlines policies and procedures for selling WIC approved foods to participants in Alaska.
This webinar focused on three different strategies that document the many significant impacts of WIC program participation. The strategies were: 1. Maximizing the use of WIC EBT data 2. Using […]
The electronic benefits transfer (EBT) study is designed to augment findings from the 2013 WIC Vendor Management Study, which satisfies Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (IPERA) requirements. The EBT sub-study provides a unique opportunity to closely examine compliance among vendors in states with an EBT system. The findings will help inform the design of the next national Vendor Management study, at which time all States will have moved to EBT systems.
This study will examine indicators of High-Risk WIC Vendors by identifying practices from other government and non-governmental programs in identifying high-risk vendors, developing and testing a micro-simulation model using WIC EBT data to identify high-risk WIC vendors, and identifying design specifications for a national WIC fraud detection system.
About 12% of WIC families fully redeemed their benefits in March, 2012. Compared with non- Arab/non-Hispanic families, Arab American WIC families were significantly more likely to use all of their monthly WIC benefits, even after controlling for family characteristics.
