Actually WIC is slightly different. Unlike food stamps which can be used to procure anything consumable short of liquor and tobacco. WIC checks itemize *exactly* what the holder may purchase. A WIC check will have necessary items like 14 oz. dry cereal, 12 eggs, 5 lbs flour, 1 gal whole milk, etc. and these are the only items which may be purchased. I've never collected WIC but I did work at a grocery store many years ago. Things may have changed.
Incidentally, food stamps are a thing of the past. Too demeaning to use. Now recipients receive a debit-card and can take cash out of an ATM in leu of food stamps. This is horribly abused as the cold, hard American cash can be spent on anything (like drugs).
**A WIC check will have necessary items like 14 oz. dry cereal, 12 eggs, 5 lbs flour, 1 gal whole milk, etc. and these are the only items which may be purchased. I've never collected WIC but I did work at a grocery store many years ago. Things may have changed**
Nope WIC still works that way, I am working as a Cashier at Walmart until I find a better job and while it can be a pain WIC is subject to less waste than food stamps because it is only basic foods needed by a child.
Tonight a guy bought two $25 Walmart Gift Cards using his Missouri Food Stamps debit card to pay for them (there is two options on the Food Stamps, ebt that only pays for food and cash which can be used just like cash from a ATM card).
Your taxpayer dollars have bought gift baskets this season, birthday cakes, lots of candy bars and snacks, some of the top of the line steaks and mushrooms and I think I even recall a customer buying Caviar with food stamps.
People with nicer clothes than I, Jewlery galore, wads of hundred dollar bills in the pocket but their food is bought on food stamps. Maybe one in five actually need the program to survive do to physical or mental handicaps and there is some who do to poor judgement or decision making might need some help but most on Food Stamps is just scamming the taxpayers.