![]() “Grocery delivery helps families avoid in-person interaction at stores and adhere to stay at home orders.” “We applaud the new availability of online shopping for (CalFresh) customers, but why would we not extend the same service to the women, infants and children who rely on WIC?” says Jared Call, Senior Advocate at California Food Policy Advocates. ![]() ![]() Now, food policy advocates are asking the state to provide the same purchasing opportunity for pregnant women and families with young children who get benefits through WIC. Late last month, California’s food stamps program, CalFresh, began allowing beneficiaries to buy groceries online at participating stores-a recent upgrade to the program that lets families skip potentially perilous grocery shopping trips during the coronavirus pandemic and limit the spread of the disease. The Sacramento family relies on the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC) to help pay for groceries. And the program doesn’t allow online grocery shopping. Just about every time her family needs groceries, Angelique Schanbeck loads her three children, ages three months, 2 and 4, into the family car.
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