|
A
Resource Directory
for Your Family's Health
View our 2011 WIC
TV Commercial
|
WIC Eligibility |
| To be
eligible, you must be a pregnant woman, a breastfeeding
woman, a woman who just had a baby, or have an infant or
child under 5 years old. There is a family income
limit, but working families may qualify. Total household
income (before taxes and deductions) must be equal to or
below the amounts shown below. |
| |
WIC Income Eligibility Criteria
185% Federal Poverty Level
Effective April
30, 2012
Note: If you are
pregnant, each unborn child adds one to the number of people
in your family.
|
Gross Income |
Family Members |
Weekly |
Bi-Weekly |
Twice Monthly |
Monthly |
Annual |
1 |
$398 |
$795 |
$862 |
$1,723 |
$20,665 |
2 |
$539 |
$1,077 |
$1,167 |
$2,333 |
$27,991 |
3 |
$680 |
$1,359 |
$1,472 |
$2,944 |
$35,317 |
4 |
$821 |
$1,641 |
$1,777 |
$3,554 |
$42,643 |
5 |
$961 |
$1,922 |
$2,083 |
$4,165 |
$49,969 |
6 |
$1,102 |
$2,204 |
$2,388 |
$4,775 |
$57,295 |
7 |
$1,243 |
$2,486 |
$2,693 |
$5,386 |
$64,621 |
8 |
$1,384 |
$2,768 |
$2,998 |
$5,996 |
$71,947 |
Additional Person |
+$141 |
+$282 |
+$306 |
+$611 |
+$7,326 |
Call us at
either location to make an appointment.
Eligibility is by appointment.
Ft Walton
Beach: 850-833-9254 |
Crestview: 850-689-7858
|
•
-
•Special checks to buy healthy foods such as
milk, juice, eggs, cheese, cereal, dry beans, peanut
butter, fruits and vegetables, and whole grains.
-
•Information about nutrition and health to
help you and your family eat well and be healthy.
-
•Support and information about breastfeeding
your baby.
-
•Help in finding health care and other
community services.
•
What
do I need to bring? 
-
•Identification for everyone that has an
appointment.
-
•Proof of where you live or have Medicaid.
-
•Proof of all household income or have
Medicaid.
-
•Children’s shot record.
-
•Bring everyone that has an appointment for
WIC
Using WIC
|
Don't leave home without your WIC card! |
| At the Store:The
cashier will use the front of the card for a signature
check. Be
sure to have your co-caretaker and proxy sign the
front also. |
|
| At
WIC: We
use the numbers on the inside of your card when you
call or come in. We can answer your questions
quicker if you have it with you!
If you don’t have the card or if you are not the
authorized representative on the card, you must have
identification. Please bring your child's shot
record to WIC also! |
| For You:
The calendar on the card tells you when to come back
to WIC. If
the month square has a number in it that is the day
you come to get checks.
If there is a number and a time and it is highlighted,
you have a nutrition appointment, so plan more time to
be with us. |
Where
can I use my WIC checks?
•They can be used at all Publix,
Wal-Mart Super Centers, Food Worlds, Winn-Dixies,
Pic N Save (Baker & Crestview), Hurlburt &
Eglin Commissaries, and Six Brothers Thrift
Foods (Crestview).
How do I use my WIC checks?
-
•WIC Checks are
like cash – they cannot be replaced if
lost or stolen.
-
•You can buy only
the foods and amounts listed on the front
of your WIC check.
-
•The back of the
check tells you specifically which food
products you can get.
-
•The WIC ID card
must be presented along with the WIC
checks.
Only those people previously appointed and
with a signature on the front of the card
may redeem them.
-
•WIC checks may
only be used from the “first day to use”
through the “last day to use” printed on
the checks.
-
•Separate the foods
on each WIC check from the other foods you
are buying.
The cashier must ring up the food for each
check separately.
-
•You are not
required to get all the food on a check,
but you will not be able to get them after
that check is used.
-
•You must sign in
the Authorized Signature space AFTER the
Pay Exactly box is filled in by the
cashier.
What if my child’s doctor changes the formula?
-
WIC will need a WIC FORMULA REQUEST FORM
to be completed by your child’s doctor, if
the formula is something other than the
Nestle Goodstart family of formulas.
You may get this form from your doctor or
us. Also, you or your doctor may
download this form from
www.floridawic.org.
-
This ENTIRE form needs to be
completed, including a valid medical
diagnosis and also the number of months
the formula is requested for (the maximum is
6 months).
-
If the request form is approved, checks
and/or unopened cans of formula that you
have, will need to be returned to WIC in
exchange for the requested formula.
-
Please remember that if your infant is in
need of a special formula, he/she may need
to be more closely monitored by WIC, and may
need more frequent appointments.
|
 |
Back to Top
|
Moving with
WIC
|
|
What to bring to transfer within Florida:
-
Identification for everyone that gets
WIC and is transferring
-
•Your WIC
Identification/Appointment card, if you
have it
-
•Shot records for your children,
if you have them
You must be currently certified and due for
checks (Florida WIC checks may be used at
authorized stores anywhere in the state)
|
 |
|
What to
bring to transfer from another state:
-
Identification for everyone that gets
WIC and is transferring
-
•Proof of where you live now
-
•Shot records for children, if
you have them
-
•Any WIC checks you have from the
other state.
You cannot get checks from more than one
state for the same time period.
-
•Your WIC Identification/Transfer
card, from your last WIC Program.
Once we get the documentation of your
certification, we can complete your
transfer and issue your checks.
|
|
Back to Top |
|
|
|
