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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$171,107,921

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

social-servicesexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-03-03·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_251PR706W1006_012
Award description

WIC FOOD EXPENSE

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) food benefits for eligible Puerto Rico residents in fiscal year 2025.

Sub-sectors
snap-wicnutrition-assistancepuerto-rico-entitlement
Why this matters

WIC is a critical nutrition program for low-income mothers and young children; this obligation sustains ongoing food assistance in Puerto Rico, where poverty rates exceed the U.S. mainland.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for approved WIC-eligible foods (dairy, produce, infant formula, cereals) from Puerto Rico retailers and regional distributors.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-23. Cost: $0.002873.

Period of performance
Start
2024-10-01
End
2025-09-30
Status
expired274 days ago
Sources

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