WIC federal funding in Alabama

Alabama x 10.557 is a WIC join, not a participant census

This page pairs CFDA 10.557, WIC SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN, with Alabama place of performance. WIC, in program language, provides supplemental foods, nutrition education, and referrals for eligible women, infants, and children. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $394,470,777 on 14 awards. The extract does not list participants, food packages, or clinic sites. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state has more nutrition need, and not a claim that 14 awards equal 14 counties.

Other USDA listings — SNAP, National School Lunch, or different maternal-child codes — sit outside $394,470,777 unless they also carry 10.557. Alabama’s child-support and higher-education-aid joins on this slice are HHS and Education overlays, not WIC subsets. Mixing WIC with SNAP would invent a combined nutrition figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and infant-health indicators is not causation. Those indicators are not in the packet. Place of performance as Alabama locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $394,470,777 in the state treasury.

14 awards behind $394.5 million

Mean obligation is about $28,176,484.07 if $394,470,777 were divided evenly across 14 lines. That ratio is not a published food-package cost and not a benefit per participant. Formula-style WIC awards often post as a handful of rows to a state health agency. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations. It is not a count of clinics, counties, or participants.

Fourteen lines are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent the lead agency name. Open Wic Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children in Alabama for the stored table. Do not convert 14 into a map of Alabama WIC clinics. The $394,470,777 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards, not food instruments already redeemed. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a caseload.

WIC obligations are not food benefits already redeemed

WIC awards often obligate to a state and draw as food benefits and NSA (nutrition services and administration) costs accrue. The $394,470,777 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of participants served and not a Treasury outlay total. No fiscal year is attached. A USDA WIC allocation table dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses CFDA 10.557, Alabama geography, and the obligation metric.

The listing title is WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. This extract does not split food benefits from NSA, and it does not split infants from children or postpartum women. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 14 awards, CFDA 10.557, and Alabama. This page will not invent a participant-category share. SNAP sits on a different CFDA number.

What the Alabama WIC table omits

The extract has no participant count, no average food-package cost, and no clinic list. Facts remain $394,470,777, 14 awards, CFDA 10.557, and Alabama. This page will not invent a ranking against other states’ 10.557 joins, including Mississippi’s separate overlay. Child Support Services on 93.563 is an HHS listing, not a WIC subset.

Alabama federal spending and Alabama programs place 10.557 among other listings. CFDA 10.557 is the national catalog line. All spending ties indexes other CFDA x state pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of USDA spending the packet never computed. The $394,470,777 figure is the tagged pair only.

Where the 10.557 x Alabama overlay lives

Start with Wic Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children in Alabama for the 14-award table behind $394,470,777. CFDA 10.557 is the nationwide listing. Alabama federal spending and Alabama programs give state context. All spending ties is the shelf for other program-by-state joins on the same obligation metric. Fourteen awards totaling $394,470,777 remain a formula-style administrative file, not a participant census. Clinic names and food-package costs are not in this packet. Per-participant amounts are omitted because they are not in the facts.

Questions

How much WIC funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov shows $394,470,777 in obligations for CFDA 10.557 with Alabama as place of performance, across 14 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Alabama’s full nutrition budget. Other USDA listings are outside this join unless they also carry 10.557.

Do 14 awards mean 14 Alabama WIC clinics?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a clinic or participant census. The packet does not name recipients. See the Alabama 10.557 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include SNAP in Alabama?

No. This page is CFDA 10.557, WIC. SNAP and school-meal programs use different CFDA numbers. Those dollars are not inside $394,470,777 unless the award also carries 10.557. The extract has no participant count.

Is $394 million already spent on Alabama WIC food packages?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $394,470,777 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Benefit redemptions and remaining balances are not published in this packet.