Jul
17
2009
Low-Income Assistance through Pregnancy
Author: JoshSee if you qualify for the Women, Infants, and Children program commonly called WIC. WIC provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk. It isn’t just for babies. Mom’s can get nutritional assistance through this program during pregnancy and continued as long as they are breastfeeding. Foods include things such as milk, cheese, eggs, peanut butter, bean, carrots, tuna, and cereal. This isn’t welfare and you don’t have to be dirt-poor to get help so check it out at http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic. To give you an idea, a family of 3 (mom, dad, baby) will be eligible if gross income is below $33,874/yr (July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010).
