WIC..pay for each item separately?

[Anonymous]

PP said she loaded groceries for a food pantry, not for WIC.

[Anonymous]

Here's an article last year about middle class residents needing to get food from food pantries:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092803937.html

I hope people who are being judgemental of others for using these services, will please read these paragraphs from the end of the article. Please remember, you usually do NOT know the whole story.

Appearances can be deceiving, as Debbie Lane and her two children discovered when they drove out to an affluent neighborhood in Chantilly to deliver $200 worth of school supplies to a needy family. Lane, of Fairfax, said her kids had offered to reuse some of their school supplies from last year so that they could contribute to the back-to-school drive, organized by the food pantry Our Daily Bread.

"My son, who is 8, said, 'Mom, if this is the neighborhood we're dropping these things off in, I think we should turn our car around,' " Lane recalled. "It was a great segue for me to talk about what poverty does and does not look like."

But even she was surprised at the size and scope of "this palatial home with two brand-new expensive cars in the driveway. I was really grappling with this. I was thinking, 'This is crazy.' " She later learned that what she had tried to explain to her kids was true: The family that needed the supplies was renting rooms in the home's basement and had recently seen its income drop when the mother died of cancer.