State funded program to provide food stamps and other goodies to the above. Badly abused.
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).