Resource Types: <span>Communications</span>

Maternal Characteristics of Prenatal WIC Receipt in the United States, 2016

Eligibility for participation by pregnant women in the WIC Program is determined by household poverty status; only those with household incomes below 185% of the federal poverty line are eligible […]

Proceedings: WIC Participant Retention Strategies: Pre-Conference Workshop

This resource includes presentations from the Pre-Conference Workshop on WIC Participant Retention Strategies. The workshop is summarized below: WIC caseload decline has been a concerning phenomenon for a number of […]

WIC EBT User Group – Past Meeting Presentations

This webpage provides links to prior EBT User Group Meetings and the powerpoint presentations from these meetings

From Paper to Plastic: Understanding the Impact of EBT on WIC Recipient Behavior

In this paper, authors analyze the impact the transition to WIC EBT has on enrollment, WIC benefits redemption, and non-WIC food expenditures using enrollment data for five states, and expenditure data for 17,714 households enrolled in WIC. Authors found no evidence that EBT increases the chance that eligible people enroll in the WIC program.

Statement on Progress Towards the Gold Standard

The following statement was made on September 10, 2016, at the National WIC Association’s Nutrition Education & Breastfeeding Promotion Conference in Denver, Colorado, by its then board of directors chair, […]

WIC Program Funding Process

“WIC is a domestic discretionary program under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). This means that WIC, unlike mandatory assistance programs […]

Modernizing and Streamlining WIC: Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT/eWIC) By 2020

THE GOALS OF EBT/EWIC The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) put forth an EBT/eWIC expansion plan in 2003 reflective of the WIC community’s goals […]

Competitive Bidding For WIC Infant Formula: The Basics

“Why Competitive Bidding Is Important To WIC Without competitive bidding, WIC would either need a much larger congressional appropriation or the program would have to terminate benefits for a huge […]

National WIC Program Data

How WIC Helps The United States of America Includes statistics on WIC participants by category, breastfeeding rates, and more for the entire United States

Resource Types: Communications