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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$56,674,075

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

social-servicesactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_265MS704W1006_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

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In plain English

Reimburses Mississippi for WIC food expenses, providing nutrition assistance to low-income pregnant women, infants, and children.

Sub-sectors
snap-wicnutrition-assistancestate-administration
Why this matters

WIC is a critical federal entitlement supporting maternal and child health outcomes in economically disadvantaged populations.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for authorized WIC-eligible foods (dairy, produce, infant formula, cereals) through retail and wholesale food distribution networks.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002066.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 135 days
Recipient
MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
UEI GHELM9ULN8A1
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