FNS Documents & Resources

We have recently received questions regarding the child nutrition policy on the treatment of income from deployed military personnel engaged in long-term military campaigns overseas.

This memorandum addresses questions have been raised by WIC state agencies regarding the eligibility determinations for individuals from military families which include military service personnel serving overseas or assigned to a military base and temporarily absent from the home. 

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide an update on the Department of Defense  actions to implement a program like WIC overseas, the impact it has on the WIC program, and the actions required by WIC state agencies.

Update on the Department of Defense (DoD) Subsistence Supplemental Allowance for Members of the Armed Forces

Included in the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 is a provision requiring the Department of Defense to pay certain service members and their families a Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance so they will not have to rely on food stamps to make ends meet.

The purpose of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, as set forth by the National School Lunch Act, is to provide meal assistance in nonresidential child care situations.

WIC Program—Food Delivery System: Military  Commissaries as WIC program vendors