CHARLESTON â Participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) will receive a temporary benefit increase for the purchase of additional fruits and vegetables, West Virginia officials announced Monday.
Through $490 million in support to the WIC program from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has offered a boost to the cash-value benefit amount for the months of June, July, August and September. This will allow the West Virginia WIC program to temporarily increase the benefit to $35 per month for each eligible participant.
WIC clinics will begin to distribute the increased benefits June 1 through Sept. 30, 2021.
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Committee Passes Carter, Stanley & Conaway Resolution Urging Federal Government to Modernize Access to Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Children May 14, 2021, 1:43 pm | in
Committee Passes Carter, Stanley & Conaway Resolution Urging Federal Government to Modernize Access to Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Children
(TRENTON) – In the hopes of making it easier for women to obtain nutritional assistance for them and their children, Assembly Democrats Linda Carter, Sterley Stanley and Herb Conaway sponsor a resolution urging the federal government to modernize access to an existing program offering nutritional support.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a federal nutrition program that provides nutritious foods, education on nutrition and breastfeeding, and improved access to health care and social services. Low and moderate-income women who are pregnant, breastfeeding o
9 Million College-Educated Adults Received Government Assistance
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Roughly nine million college-educated adults received government assistance in 2017, the United States Census Bureau has reported. The majority of adult recipients of the government programs investigated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Supplemental Security Income; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families had only a high school degree or less.
Educational attainment varied across programs. In some programs, roughly one-third of recipients had attended at least some college. People with a bachelor’s degree made up 10 percent of WIC recipients, 7.9 percent of SSI recipients, 7.6 percent of SNAP recipients and 5.5 percent of TANF recipients.
Several nonprofit organizations in Graham provide services and opportunities for those in the community and making the community aware of those services and how to utilize them is the goal of the Graham Non-Profit Community Fair Saturday.
The event will be hosted by Affirming Texas Families Services and the Graham Crisis Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in the Graham Food Pantry parking lot at 601 Indiana St. in Graham. Courtney Shifflett with ATFS said the event was a way to make the community more aware of the opportunities available to them here locally.
“We wanted to have an event where all of the resources from your nonprofits, to your civic clubs, to your things like WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), anything that can help people out, we wanted kind of a big event for people to kind of know what’s here because so many people don’t even realize what’s availa
With Americans increasingly unhealthy because of the highly processed foods they eat, there’s more talk about the need for quality over quantity of food.