Legislation in the House and Senate would expand a dairy nutrition pilot program that is helping families get better nutrition through the SNAP program.
Matt Herrick with the International Dairy Foods Association tells Brownfield the Dairy Nutrition Incentives Program is currently being tested in six states and 150 grocery stores. He says it’s an expansion of the Healthy Fluid Milk Incentive Program in the 2018 Farm Bill. “When they go to the grocery store with their SNAP benefits and they buy a gallon of skim milk or 1% milk for example, they can then get a coupon and reimburse another, you know, if they bought three dollars in milk they could get three dollars more in milk, it was a dollar-for-dollar match program.
