This study looks at current WIC cost containment strategies in an effort to make them more effective, enabling the program to serve more participants with its fixed budget resources.
In this report, ERS uses preliminary data from USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to examine trends in U.S. food and nutrition assistance programs through fiscal 2014 (October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014). Federal expenditures for USDA’s domestic food and nutrition assistance programs totaled $103.6 billion in fiscal 2014, or 5 percent less than the previous fiscal year—the first decrease since 2000 (March 2015).
USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is the major purchaser of infant formula in the United States. WIC State agencies are required to have competitively bid infant formula rebate contracts with infant formula manufacturers. This study analyzes the winning and losing bids from the infant formula manufacturers (July 2015).
This is WIC program funding data from FY2017, from all 90 WIC state agencies, collected and compiled by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
This is WIC program funding data from FY2016, from all 90 WIC state agencies, collected and compiled by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
This is WIC program funding data from FY2015, from all 90 WIC state agencies, collected and compiled by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
This is WIC program funding data from FY2014, from all 90 WIC state agencies, collected and compiled by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
This is WIC program funding data from FY2013, from all 90 WIC state agencies, collected and compiled by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
This is WIC program funding data from FY2012, from all 90 WIC state agencies, collected and compiled by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
This is WIC program funding data from FY2011, from all 90 WIC state agencies, collected and compiled by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
