Authorized Food Retailer Characteristics Study. Technical Report 2. Food StampCoupon and WIC Voucher Management Practices and Program Educational Needs of Food Stamp Retailers, December 1995

摘要

WIC is designed to provide supplemental food to low-income pregnant, postpartum,and breast-feeding women and their infants and preschool children. Its purpose is to help reduce and prevent the incidence of nutrition-related health problems. Food vouchers are provided to program participants, who exchange the vouchers for food prescribed on the vouchers for food prescribed on the voucher at authorized regail grocery stores. Retailers deposit the vouchers in a bank or submit them to a State WIC office. They receive payment within 60 days.