What are the eligibility requirements?
AnswerMeet the income guidelines. WIC determines income based on gross income. WIC counts all of the members of a household, related or non-related. WIC counts an unborn baby as a household member. Income Eligibility Guidelines Number of household members Yearly household income Monthly household income *1 $0 up to $1,436 $0 up to $17,224 2 $0 up to $1,926 $0 up to $23,107 3 $0 up to $2,416 $0 up to $28,990 4 $0 up to $2,907 $0 up to $34,873 5 $0 up to $3,397 $0 up to $40,756 6 $0 up to $3,887 $0 up to $46,639 7 $0 up to $4,377 $0 up to $52,522 8 $0 up to $4,868 $0 up to $58,405 Be at nutritional risk. WIC clients receive an initial health and diet screening to determine nutritional risk. WIC uses two main categories to determine nutritional risk: 1) medically-based risks such as history of poor pregnancy outcome, underweight status, or iron deficiency anemia, and 2) diet-based risks such as poor eating habits which can lead to poor nutritional and health status.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens. Applicants must have completed their undergraduate education and be working in their chosen professions. Individuals currently employed by the Federal government are not eligible to apply with the exception of the following branches of the military: Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, and Navy. Some examples of Federal employees who are not eligible to apply for the program are: law clerks for the Supreme Court and District Court, members of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.If you have a question about your status as a Federal employee, please call the White House Fellows Program office at (202) 395-4522.
All applicants for Financial aid must meet all of the following requirements: • Be a citizen or an eligible non-citizen of the United States. • Be enrolled in a degree seeking program. • Maintain satisfactory academic progress as defined by the college. (See the current college catalog for more information about this standard). • Must be in good standing on all prior student loans with unpaid balances and must not owe a repayment for any federal aid program.
Below is a list of eligibility requirements associated with the applicant for the PLUS product: • Must be borrowing to pay for the educational costs of a dependent undergraduate student who meets the requirements for an eligible student • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, a U.S. permanent resident or eligible non-citizen, as applicable • Must provide his or her valid Social Security Number • Must not be in default on any federal student loans • Must be the natural or adoptive parent, legal guardian who has been appointed by a court and who is specifically required to use his or her own resources to support the student, or step-parent (if their income and assets would have been taken into account when calculating a dependent student’s expected family contribution) of the eligible student • Must not have any property subject to a judgment lien for a debt owed to the United States • Must fulfill additional requirements imposed by the guarantor of a loan for which the principal and inter
