WIC to Guam recipients: Choose 'least expensive brands' by Oct. 16 to help stretch program funding

WIC to Guam recipients: Choose 'least expensive brands' by Oct. 16 to help stretch program funding

To help stretch the limited funding because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, Guam recipients of the Women, Infants, and Children, WIC, Program food benefits are advised to "choose the least expensive brand available in certain food categories when redeeming…

WIC receives lifeline to keep operating amid government shut down - ABC Columbia

(CNN)– The government program WIC has received a 300-million lifeline to keep operating for a few more weeks during the government shutdown. That’s according to a source familiar with the funding transfer. WIC provides food assistance and services to nearly seven-million pregnant women, new mothers and young children. The program had been in danger of running out of money by the middle of the month. But according to the source, the Trump adminis…