The Juice Access Improvement Act would change how juice benefits are distributed through the WIC program, which provides nutrition assistance to low-income women, infants, and children. Currently, participants can choose juice as an optional benefit, but this bill would make juice the automatic default option in WIC food packages for children ages one through four and for pregnant and postpartum women. Participants who prefer not to receive juice would still have the option to request a three-dollar cash-value voucher instead, which would increase annually with inflation adjustments. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture to update its regulations to implement these changes. No specific funding amount or implementation timeline is included in the legislation, leaving those details to be determined by the agency during the rulemaking process.
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