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New York First State to Accept WIC (CVV) Checks at Farmers Markets
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by . Filed under News.
ALBANY – Participants in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program can now use their monthly checks at New York farmers’ markets to purchase eligible fresh produce. New York is the first state in the nation to allow the use of WIC checks for fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets.
A pilot program conducted in 2006 by the Department of Health showed that WIC participants prefer fresh produce over canned or frozen products when fresh is available. In New York, approximately 520,000 women, infants and children participate in the WIC program every month. The program received approximately $420 million in funding from the federal United States Department of Agriculture this year and is administered by the New York State Department of Health’s Division of Nutrition.
The WIC program enhancement was recommended by The New York State Council on Food Policy and its implementation is a collaborative effort by the New York State Department of Health, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, and the Farmers’ Market Federation of New York.
Source: http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20090615-8.html
June 24th, 2009 at
I am curious to know how exactly this differs from the Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.
June 29th, 2009 at
This document, recently published by the Community Food Security Coalition, does a pretty good job of explaining the difference.
http://www.foodsecurity.org/pub/WIC-FarmesMarketReport.pdf
February 9th, 2010 at
[...] for all community members, not just WIC recipients. It makes sense, then, that New York was the first state to begin accepting the new WIC CVV checks, with Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, New Jersey and [...]