(Oct. 14) The supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children known as WIC received temporary help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week. But that aid is only temporary.

Due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, the program was slated to run out of money in many states, including Minnesota. But the USDA has shifted about $300 million from other child nutrition programs that had a surplus at the end of the federal fiscal year, Sept. 30.

So, the program that provides food aid, infant formula and breastfeeding support to more than 101,000 low-income Minnesota moms and babies can continue until the end of the month. But only until the end of the month.

“MN WIC has funds to continue services through the end of October,” said the Minnesota Department of Health

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