WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program — CFDA 10.557

What $32.2 billion on CFDA 10.557 represents

USAspending.gov records $32,240,643,380.20 in obligations under CFDA 10.557. One thousand four hundred thirty-four awards make up that stock. A simple average is about $22.5 million per award — a pattern consistent with state- and territory-level nutrition grants rather than millions of tiny household rows in this particular extract. The title names women, infants, and children; the USAspending file still stores grant-style assistance awards tagged 10.557, not a participant roster.

WIC SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN is the official assistance-listing title. CFDA 10.557 is the number that has to appear on an award for it to roll into this total. Other nutrition CFDA codes are separate rows. Mixing them would invent a combined nutrition budget that this packet does not contain.

One hundred one recipients across a 56-state count

The recipient count is 101. Against 1,434 awards, that is roughly 14 award records per recipient on average, and about $319 million in obligations per recipient if the $32.2 billion were split evenly — which it is not. State WIC administering agencies typically appear as the named recipients on federal assistance files; local clinics usually do not each get their own CFDA row. The packet does not list the 101 names.

Fifty-six states in the geographic count is wider than the 50-state map. USAspending’s state field on assistance awards commonly includes the District of Columbia and territories. The packet does not name which 56 labels are present. It does say the WIC listing is not a single-state earmark: awards are coded across that full geographic set.

Awards versus families served

Award count (1,434) is a count of assistance records, including original awards and modifications as stored by USAspending. It is not the number of WIC households, food instruments, or clinic visits. A single state recipient can generate many award modifications as funds are added or fiscal periods roll, which raises award count without adding recipients.

Anyone citing 10.557 in a nutrition debate should keep the unit straight: $32.2 billion is the obligation stock on this CFDA. Participant counts, food-package costs, and vendor redemption data live in other systems and are not in this packet.

Obligations are not grocery outlays

An obligation is the federal commitment recorded on the assistance award. An outlay is cash paid. CFDA 10.557’s $32.2 billion is the former. Food benefits redeemed at retailers, if published elsewhere, would be a different series. This page does not estimate how much of the obligated stock has been drawn.

Deobligations and upward modifications both move the USAspending total. A snapshot can therefore differ from an earlier download of the same CFDA. Compare the four packet facts — dollars, awards, recipients, states — when checking whether two screenshots refer to the same extract.

Opening the WIC program table

The WIC program page is the overlay for CFDA 10.557. The all-programs index ranks it among other assistance listings by obligation size. Agency pages show awarding-agency totals that may include 10.557 among other nutrition and agriculture listings. For questions about this CFDA only, start on the program page rather than an agency rollup.

WIC as a grant CFDA, not a caseload file

WIC’s USAspending row is easy to misread as a household file because the title names women, infants, and children. The extract is 1,434 awards, 101 recipients, 56 states, and $32,240,643,380.20 in obligations. One hundred one organizational recipients against more than a thousand awards is the shape of a state-and-territory administering-agency file. Participant counts, food-package costs, and vendor redemptions are not among the four facts.

Fifty-six in the geographic count is wider than a 50-state map. USAspending’s state field on assistance awards commonly includes the District of Columbia and territories. That width is a coverage flag for CFDA 10.557, not an equal-share table. Some of the 101 recipients will hold many of the 1,434 award records as funds are added across periods; that pattern raises award count without adding recipients.

Quote $32.2 billion only as the obligation stock on this CFDA. Do not add other nutrition listings into the figure. Do not convert the stock into outlays. Do not divide $32.2 billion by an unpublished caseload to invent a per-participant cost. The program page holds the award and recipient tables; the programs index ranks 10.557; agency pages are awarding-agency rollups. Source: USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much is obligated for WIC on USAspending.gov?

USAspending.gov records $32,240,643,380.20 in obligations for CFDA 10.557, the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. SpendingVault indexes 1,434 awards, 101 recipients, and 56 states. The total is an obligation sum, not an outlay and not a participant count.

How many WIC recipients appear in the USAspending aggregate?

The extract lists 101 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 10.557, typically administering agencies rather than individual families. Award count is 1,434. Household caseload is not a field in this packet and is not inferred here. CFDA 10.557’s $32.2 billion across 1,434 awards and 101 recipients is the USAspending obligation stock.

Why does WIC show 56 states?

The USAspending geographic count for CFDA 10.557 is 56. That field can include the District of Columbia and territories in addition to states. The packet does not list the 56 labels or the dollars in each. It does show that 10.557 is coded widely, not as a one-jurisdiction listing.

Does $32.2 billion equal WIC food benefits paid?

No. The $32.2 billion is obligations on assistance awards from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid — are a different concept. Food-instrument redemptions and administrative draws are not in this packet. Use the obligation total to size CFDA 10.557 in the assistance file, not to close a benefits ledger.