WIC goes electronic

Medford, Ore.– WIC participants are now receiving food vouchers electronically through a card.

WIC serves more than 161,000 lower-income pregnant women, infants and children under 5 throughout Oregon.

Beginning this week, this new card will make their shopping easier, allowing families to better track their monthly food balance.

“People felt a little self conscious because it would hold up the lines,” said Debbie Mote-Watson, WIC program manager. “You had to put your foods by your voucher and you had to pay for each voucher as a separate transaction. You couldn’t do them all together and now you can do them all together.”

The Oregon Health Authority program has been helping families in need to get healthy food and receive nutrition education for more than 40 years.

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