WIC admin expenses

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $17.971 million to the Utah Department of Health and Human Services on October 1, 2025 for WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) administrative expenses under CFDA 10.557, with performance through September 30, 2026 in Utah.

The award funds state-level administration of the WIC program, which provides supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, and health care referrals to income-eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five determined to be at nutritional risk. The funding covers administrative costs associated with program operations and state agency oversight.

Utah Department of Health and Human Services sub-awarded portions of this allocation to 16 local health departments and county health entities across Utah, including Salt Lake County Human Services Department, Utah County Health Department, Weber Morgan Health Department, Davis County Government, San Juan County, Central Utah Public Health Department, Southwest Utah Public Health Department, Summit County, Wasatch County Health Department, Tooele County, Tricounty Health Department, Southeastern Utah District Health Department, and Bear River Health Department. Sub-awards were obligated between October 2025 and July 2026. Each sub-recipient delivers WIC program operations at the local level, providing nutrition education, participant eligibility determination, certification, and coordination of food delivery and nutrition services to eligible women, infants, and children within their jurisdictions.