Another reason for the limit is that in some places there is a big black market in baby formula. People will buy it with government assistance (food stamps or WIC vouchers) and then re-sell it for cash.
Also, if you ever notice that the formula is behind the counter and you have to ask for it, it’s because it was being stolen outright for sale on the street.
The secret is to say you are breastfeeding exclusively.
If you fill out the paperwork at Motherhood Maternity, for instance, and say you will be exclusively breastfeeding, BINGO, a full case of formula appears on your doorstep 3 weeks after your due date.
If you say you will be using formula, you get a magazine.
I’ve known a few people that had their mom sign up as if due and they sign up too, but with only that one difference.
Seriously, don’t ever admit to using formula and you’ll get the best rewards.
That’s my advice to everyone I know that’s pregnant. You can take that stuff back to WalMart and get $$ for it. Or donate it if you are magnanimous. Get it out of the house if you’re committed to breastfeeding, but let someone benefit.
I used Similac and other Ross Labs formulas when I was pregnant. During my first two pregnancies, the doctor’s office had me fill out a ton of cards while I was waiting for the doc - and one of them happened to be a registration card for the “Welcome Addition” club. I received two cans of powdered formula, a 6 pack of instant, and a nifty little 6 pack of the bottles like you get in the hospital where you just screw a nipple on the bottle. I also regularly received the checks that you use (sometimes for really good savings). The third time around, I never did end up filling out the cards, and didn’t receive any free formula. I called Ross and they directed me to their website: http://www.welcomeaddition.com/ and I signed up there. Within a few weeks, the coupons were rolling in, and I had a six pack of the instant. The checks can really add up.
Of course, I eventually figured out that you use formula AFTER pregnancy, and not during. :smack Guess that explains why my coffee never tasted too good 
Lovely. I’d like to offer you my sincerest thanks for cheating me out of my hard-earned tax dollars so you can feed your offspring more cheaply. I’d rather my tax dollars go toward buying you some birth control :dubious:
What, exactly, do you think the odds are of a mother on WIC, upon obtaining a job partway through the year, is going to increase her income SO substantially that she’s going to be “cheating you out of” your tax dollars? I was on WIC for my first child, I was working full time. My husband was working full time. WIC was the only governmental support I ever received in my life, and WIC helped me eat healthy during my pregnancy, and helped my son eat healthy after he was born. I paid my tax dollars, and if a mother on WIC gets a job, and makes another year on WIC while she rebuilds her life after not having been employed, well she’s paying HER tax dollars too.
Seriously, this attitude infuriates me. Between the ages of 16 and today, I spent a total of six months unemployed - and the number of people who told me I was freeloading off the government because I was getting eggs and cheese for free for a year was staggering.
I agree with you completely, TellMe, but you might as well save your breath.
Nyctea simply enjoys complaining about kids and their parents. I’ve yet to see her make a positive post in a kid-centered thread.
Lovely. I’d like to offer you my sincerest thanks for cheating me out of my hard-earned tax dollars so you can have abortions on demand for free. I’d rather my tax dollars go toward buying formula, diapers and clothes for the babies. :dubious: :dubious:
I guess it all evens out somehow… :wally
TellMeI’mNotCrazy, didn’t you read Silver Fire’s post?
Note the “HAHAHAHA!!!” Yeah, that is really funny, if you won $1 million, you could still get WIC, because you only have to report your income once a year! That is what I was talking about. The whole point of Silver Fire’s post is that you could go back to work and be making more than the limit, and continue to get assistance, even if you don’t need it, because you only have to report once a year. This is called welfare fraud.
Couldn’t you save some money by feeding your kids at McDonalds?
I believe I read somewhere recently that three meals a day from McDonalds has all the nutrition a growing child needs.
Say what? <checking previous posts> Where did I ever say that? 
I have no problem with kids and parents, as long as I don’t have to pay for your kids.
But that has nothing to do with what I said about Silver Fire’s post…see my last post above to see what I am talking about. Basically what she/he was saying is that you could get on WIC, then the nexy day get a job and double your family income and still get WIC although you are no longer eligible, because they only check income once a year. Along with a hearty HAHAHAH!! I just didn’t find that funny.
The joys of infant formula. Pre-made in cans is always expensive. We got Enfamil in powdered form from the grocery, but it was still expensive. I ended up joining BJ’s Wholesale Club and buying it in bulk.
No joke. The stuff keeps for a long time, we were going through it like — well, like baby formula – and it was way cheaper in bulk. Definitely worth the investment.
Just wait until you get to toilet training!
I read the HAHAHAHA as a kind of “As if!” comment, not as a “I’m such a sly little defrauder”, but I guess it’s debatable.
I also read the HAHAHAHAHA as being in relation to the idea of winning a million dollars, since it was in the parenthetical statement, and not HAHAHAHAing the idea as a whole. As **belladonna ** said, though, it could be debateable.
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Going from no income to what is likely a minimum wage income may “double” your household income overnight on paper, but having a small (or even a moderate) income after no income at all is not an instant cureall, and there is a lot of recovering to do even after you’ve gotten a job. And furthermore, we SHOULD be helping the people who are struggling to get back on their feet. The attitude that once someone has a job, they should no longer be entitled to any kind of assistance at all - especially if they happen to be one dollar over the government’s poverty guidelines, is what encourages many women to stay at home and never seek a job in the first place. Knowing that someone will help you at the end of the day because you’re not working is a lot more comforting than thinking that even if you pull down three part time jobs at minimum wage, you’re not making enough for you, or your family, and the government isn’t going to do a damn thing to help you, because hey, we can all raise families with no trouble as long as we meet those poverty guidelines. I worked my ass off, and my husband did too, and for that we got a hearty “Fuck off” from the government when I needed fuel assistance. Why? Because I made (and I swear, I am not making this up) twenty dollars over the upper income limits.
Wow. Must burn your ass that you pay for kids every day to be in school.
Of course, paying that small sum to keep kids in schoolbooks prevents many kids from, say, turning to a life of crime and knifing you in the subway for twelve dollars.
Tell you what, though. You e-mail me your home address, and I’ll mail you a check on behalf of Silver Fire for the money you pissed away helping her stay on WIC for her kids.
Would 1/1,000th of a penny cut it for you? :dubious:
Oh, that’s not how I read it at all, but I could be wrong. However, what was the point of her telling us that “you only have to report your income to WIC once a year” and that “even if I went back to work the next day, I’d still be in the program for a year”? It seemed to me that she was pointing out this loophole as a good thing, something that should be shared with others for their use, as a way to get a little extra help even if you’re back at work making more than the cut-off.
You’re misinterpreting what I am saying. We have a public education system in this country. I received a public education and became a productive member of society. Now my tax dollars go towards paying back what was given to me and perhaps one day paying for my kids to be educated. So it’s an even trade-off. So, contrary to what you imply, I certainly have no problem with public education! :dubious:
That’s not what you said. You said “I don’t want to pay for other people’s kids,” which led me to my comments. If they don’t apply, then they don’t apply.
But really, let’s not quibble over Silver’s WIC usage and how much in tax dollars you pay for it in here. You might not like it, but I think you’d be a thousand times more appalled over the myriad programs you unwittingly fund just by paying taxes.
Not everybody on welfare is a deadbeat gubmint-screwer. IANOW, but the program does help people who couldn’t otherwise put food on the table.
Besides, what does this have to do with our mutual hatred of Babies R Us? 
Obviously it is not welfare fraud if her WIC worker told her of the rule.
Here’s a little something for NYCTEA.
You know, I really hate talking about fish. I hate fish, eating fish, catching fish, in fact, people who sport fish and kill fish for their own pleasure, mounting them on their walls as trophies really gets a pit in my stomach. i’ve made my hatred of fish and fishermen apparent a thousand times to a thousand people.
So here’s what I do:
I don’t fucking open any threads that talk about fishing.
Just a thought.