$61,113,161
Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service
to SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_265SC715W1006_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
Provides WIC food assistance funding to eligible pregnant women, infants, and children in South Carolina.
Sub-sectors
wic-nutritionfood-assistance-entitlementstate-benefits-administration
Why this matters
WIC directly supports child nutrition and health outcomes for low-income families, a foundational federal-state partnership.
Supply-chain signal
Signals steady demand for approved food retailers and manufacturers participating in South Carolina's WIC program.
Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-06. Cost: $0.014274.
Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 91 days
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- 2026-04-20CDC-RFA-IP19-1901 IMMUNIZATION AND VACCINES FOR CHILDREN$106.3M
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- 2026-05-19WIC FOOD EXPENSE$64.7M
Sources
- USAspending.gov — all awards for this UEI →
- SAM.gov entity registration →
- Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier ASST_NON_265SC715W1006_012.
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