Letter Report from the Panel to Review the USDA Methodology for Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program (2002) / Chapter Skim
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the number of children eligible for WIC by 14 percent. Although the point estimates of the aciclitional numbers of infants and children eligible for WIC through acljunctive eligibility were not as large as initially shown in the Phase ~ report, the revised estimates still show a substantial increase in the number of infants and children eligible for WIC through participation in Medicaid, TANF, or food stamps.
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Current methods for estimating WIC eligibility make only a minor adjustment to accountfor persons who are adjunctively eligible for WIC. Differences in eligibility rules between WTC and Medicaid, food stamps, and TANF make it possible for an applicant whose family income is above the WIC income eligibility threshoic} (185 percent of fecleral poverty guidelines)
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data refer to the recently obtained TRIM data using the correct control totals based on average monthly enrollment in Meclicaid.3 As shown in Table I, the TRIM data used in the Phase ~ report estimated 671,000 infants to be acljunctively eligible for WIC through participation in Medicaid, food stamps, or TANF, which is a 45 percent increase in the baseline estimates of WIC eligibility. The corrected} Phase IT data show that 45S,000 infants are estimated to be adjunctively eligible for WIC a 31 percent 2 Two alternative measures of the number acljunctively eligible for WIC were also considered in the Phase ~ report.
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Monthly income measures were simulated using TRIM. If an infant or child lived in a family with at least ~ month of income below the WIC eligibility threshold, this infant or child was considered eligible for W{C.4 Use of the monthly income measure increases the number eligible by 25 percent using the Phase ~ data and 24 percent using the Phase IT data.
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The pane} will use the TRIM data from other years (1994, 1996, and 1999) to estimate the effect of accounting for acljunctive eligibility on WIC eligibility estimates.
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