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Resource | Federal Register Notices Final Rule with Request for Comments: WIC Online Ordering and Transactions and Food Delivery Revisions to Meet the Needs of a Modern, Data-Driven Program

This final rule considers public comments submitted in response to the proposed rule to remove barriers to online ordering and internet-based transactions in WIC.

11/06/2026
Basic page Online Shopping in WIC

This rule provides a pathway for state agencies to adopt modern, secure payment technologies so families have access to the healthy, real foods prescribed in their WIC food packages.

11/06/2026
Resource | Guidance Documents SNAP Retailer Notice: Stocking Standards Calculator

Earlier this year, we published updates to the stocking standards required for most retailers authorized to accept SNAP benefits. Does your store meet updated SNAP stocking standards? A new tool can help you check.

09/23/2026
Resource | Guidance Documents SNAP Retailer Notice: New Guidance on How to Meet the Updated Staple Food Stocking Standards

Earlier this year, we published updates to the stocking standards required for most retailers authorized to accept SNAP benefits. Starting on November 4, 2026, retailers must comply with these standards or risk losing their ability to accept SNAP.

09/04/2026
Resource | Federal Register Notices Final Rule: Updated Staple Food Stocking Standards for Retailers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

This rule codifies a new framework for determining distinct staple food varieties for meeting staple food stocking requirements for retailer participation in SNAP. 

05/08/2026
Basic page SNAP Stocking Standards Final Rule

We published a final rule that updates retailer stocking standards in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This rule ensures that retailers carry a variety of foods that promote the health of SNAP participants.

05/08/2026
Resource | Guidance Documents SNAP Retailer Notice: New Staple Foods Stocking Standards Are Coming!

We published updates to the stocking standards required for most retailers authorized to accept SNAP benefits. Starting on Nov. 4, 2026, all retailers other than specialty stores (e.g., butchers, farm stands) will be required to comply with these standards or risk losing your ability to redeem SNAP.

05/08/2026
Resource | FAQs/Q&As Reorganization

As part of the USDA reorganization plan, The Food and Nutrition Administration, formerly the Food and Nutrition Administration, will refocus its 16 nutrition assistance programs.

05/08/2026
Basic page Study Series: School Meal Program Operations

We have studied school meal program operations for a long time. You can access published reports that go back to school year 1988-89. Each study in this series focuses on topics that are important to program operations at the time. Sometimes the studies also collect information about other child nutrition programs, like the Child and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program.

03/24/2026
Resource | Research and Data School Meal Program Operations, School Year 2022-23

We regularly collect information about the school meal programs and how they operate from the people who know best – the state agencies that oversee the programs in each state and territory and the school food authorities that manage the programs locally in one or more schools. 

03/24/2026
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