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I HEAR YA!!!! I have a set of twins who were preemies and who had to be on Neosure. Neousre is only given by RX, and runs about $14.00-$15.00 a can. That runs about $230.00 a month. Try that times 2. There is NO WAY we could afford to buy this for our foster twins if we did not receive WIC. WHen the twins came to us they were 5 months old very undernourished, and failure to thrive. They absolutely had to have this formula and it has done wonders (they were 29 week preemies as well ).
We did not hear about WIC form our DCS office. As a matter of fact when I asked them about it, they said they had never heard of a foster parent getting WIC. ANyway, it was a no brainer.
Then when we adopted our foster daughter in Dec. and I had to go back in Feb for recertification for the WIC vouchers, I was not going to reapply for Kayla. The WIC staff questioned why I wouldn't. I explained because she was no longer a foster child. The woman att the front desk asked me if my husband made less than $41,000 during the year, I explained yes. SHe aksed me how many were in the household. I told her 6. SHe told me I definitley qualified (even without looking at anything else). So I made an appointment brought int he dh last check stub and we were qualified and get WIC for my adopted daughter as well. SO we get 12 gallons of milk a month 18 48oz od Juicy Juice each month, 6 dozen eggs,6 16 oz of cheese each month (ANYBODY need any cheese,LOL) 3 18 oz jars of peanut butter, 105 oz of cereal each month. SO it definitely comes in handy. I always thought we made pretty good money UNTIL I went to the WIC office and was told we qualified under the poverty level. HMMM!!! SO check it out.
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