Food benefits for WIC recipients
Information about the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program
LDAF secured a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to participate in the 2024 WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) allowing recipients to buy locally grown fresh fruits, vegetables, and cut herbs from farmers at approved farmers markets and roadside stands. Women, infants (over 4 months old), and children that have been certified to receive WIC program benefits are eligible to participate in the WIC FMNP.
Currently, this program is available in Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, East Baton Rouge, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lafourche, LaSalle, Livingston, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Orleans, Ouachita, Plaquemines, Rapides, Red River, Richland, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Union, Vermilion, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Carroll parishes at certain WIC clinics.
Through the grant, those who qualify will receive food benefits cards with a value of $50 per participant in the household.
Food benefits cards are not permitted for grocery stores or non-participating farmers.
Farmers who have signed “Farmer Participation Agreements” with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry may accept the food benefits cards.
Current issue food benefits expire on November 30, 2024.
Recipients who receive food benefits also will receive a directory, listing participating farmers’ markets and roadside stands where the food benefits may be spent.
Participants must apply every year. Participants who received food benefits in 2023 will not automatically receive them this year. Recipients who qualify for the food benefits cards must go to their local WIC clinic to re-apply for the program.
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