This memorandum seeks to ensure that current Food and Nutrition Service guidance pertaining to federal civil rights and nondiscrimination obligations remains aligned with applicable laws, regulations, executive orders and directives relevant to the agency’s 16 nutrition assistance programs.
As part of the WIC innovation and modernization efforts to be funded under ARPA, FNS is supporting planning and implementation projects focused on enhancements that improve the WIC participant experience, as evidenced by enhancing the WIC shopping experience, increasing participant enrollment, reducing unnecessary administrative burden for both participants and administrators, including through data matching to streamline enrollment, and retaining eligible participants while improving equity
In FY 2022, FNS awarded $23,100,000.00 in grants to 66 WIC state agencies to support planning and implementation of projects to improve the WIC participant experience. State agencies each received $350,000.00 in funding to work on multiple types of projects.
GAO Report to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry U.S. Senate on Nutrition Education: USDA Provides Services through Multiple Programs, but Stronger Linkages among Efforts Are Needed
WIC Program—Allowable Costs: Real Property
WIC Program— Use of WIC Acronym and Logo
FNS Instruction 800-1: WIC Program—General Administration: Confidentiality
Certification: Limitations on Targeting Strategies Including Use of Applicant Age
FNS Instruction 807-3 Rev. 1: WIC Program—Program Costs: Administrative and Program Services Costs
FNS Instruction 807-2: WIC Program—Program Costs-Focal Instruments Used in Compliance Purchases