TUPELO ⢠The Mississippi State Department of Health announced on Thursday that it will close all 81 of its Women, Infants and Children (WIC) food distribution sites throughout the state, which serve around 85,000 Mississippians enrolled in the program, in the months ahead.
Approximately 70 positions will be eliminated as a result of the closures. This comes as WIC clients throughout the nation are being transferred to the use of electronic banking and a debit card for food purchases due to a federal mandate, MSDH said in a statement, Thursday.
The plan was announced in 2019 and was originally planned to start in 2020. Mississippi is one of only a few states that still uses distribution centers and paper vouchers.
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