See food stamps Politifact, March 21.)Īs its name suggests, the WIC program, which is 100 percent federally funded, is meant to supplement what’s already in the pantry. (No lobster allowed under WIC, unlike the food stamp program. Participants receive vouchers to buy qualifying healthy foods - such as fruit, vegetables, peanut butter and milk. The program targets low-income, nutritionally at-risk groups - mostly pregnant women, new moms, babies and children up to age 5. One government program putting food on the table for the needy is the Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program, most often known by the acronym WIC.
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