WIC#
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides vouchers for food and formula to low-income mothers and children deemed to be at nutritional risk. The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), a division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), administers WIC.
Examples#
How WIC values depend on income#
Consider a pregnant woman in Oregon whose husband has no income, and whom a WIC office has deemed to be at nutritional risk.
from policyengine_us import IndividualSim
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import plotly.express as px
sim = IndividualSim(year=2022)
sim.add_person(
name="mother",
is_pregnant=True,
is_wic_at_nutritional_risk=True,
would_claim_wic=True,
)
sim.add_person(name="father")
sim.add_spm_unit(members=["mother", "father"])
sim.add_household(members=["mother", "father"], state_code="OR")
sim.vary("employment_income", max=4_000 * 12)
df = pd.DataFrame(
dict(
employment_income=sim.calc("employment_income")[0] / 12,
wic=sim.calc("wic")[0] / 12,
)
)
LABELS = dict(
age="Child age",
is_breastfeeding="Breastfeeding",
wic="Monthly WIC benefit value",
employment_income="Monthly earnings",
)
fig = px.line(
df,
"employment_income",
"wic",
labels=LABELS,
title="WIC benefits by earnings for a married pregnant woman in Oregon",
)
fig.update_layout(xaxis_tickformat="$,", yaxis_tickformat="$,")
fig.show()