![]() ![]() Stay healthy: WIC also includes health coaching and help. In 2019, Alabama WIC transitioned from paper to electronic benefits to allow purchases via an eWIC card loaded with specific foods covered under the program. WIC foods include “infant cereal, iron-fortified adult cereal, vitamin C-rich fruit or vegetable juice, eggs, milk, cheese, peanut butter, dried and canned beans/peas, and canned fish. WIC packages also include canned fish and cheese for breastfeeding moms, and baby food for babies. The program serves almost half of all infants born in the United States. Government information system provided by the Federal Communications Commission for FCC-authorized users only. ![]() WIC provides “nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating including breastfeeding promotion and support, and referrals to health care” to low-income pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, infants and children up to age 5 who are considered to be at nutritional risk, according to the U.S. 1, the state will start using electronic benefits transfer cards that will allow recipients on the Women, Infants and Children program to buy food at grocery stores and pharmacies Most states are already doing that, and Mississippi is among the few still using a warehouse distribution system, the Commercial Dispatch reported. (AP) - Mississippi will close distribution centers for a federal nutrition program in the coming year and will move to a system that could be simpler to use. ![]()
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