🚨 Important Update for Wisconsin 🚨
✅ October benefits were issued on time.
⚠️ Due to the federal shutdown, November FoodShare benefits will be delayed — even if the shutdown ends prior to Nov 1st.
❗ QUEST cards may not work starting Nov. 1, even if you have funds remaining at the end of October.
🛒 Members may want to consider utilizing their funds prior to Oct 31st to stock up on non-perishable food.
📬 DHS is notifying members by mail, text, email & online.
💡 WIC, Medicaid & BadgerCare Plus programs are still active during this shutdown.
📞 Need help? Call 211, text your ZIP to 898211, or visit 211wisconsin.communityos.org..
Stay informed: dhs.wisconsin.gov/foodshare/news
What is Foodshare?
FoodShare Wisconsin was created to help stop hunger and to improve nutrition and health. FoodShare helps people with limited money buy the food they need for good health. People across Wisconsin get help from FoodShare. They are people of all ages who have a job but have low incomes, are living on a small or fixed income, have lost their job, or are retired or disabled and not able to work.
FoodShare benefits are placed on a debit card called the Wisconsin QUEST card.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) state or local agencies, and their sub-recipients, are required to post the following USDA Nondiscrimination Statement:
In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), religious creed, disability, age, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the agency (state or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA
Program Discrimination Complaint Form can be obtained online using this link
USDA Discrimination Complaint Form, or from any USDA office, by calling (833) 620-1071, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant's name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation.
The completed AD=3027 form or letter must be submitted by one of the following ways:
- Mail
Food and Nutrition Service, USDA
1320 Braddock Place, Room 334, Alexandria, VA 22314;
- Fax
(833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
- Email
FNSCIVILRIGHTSCOMPLAINTS@usda.gov
✅ October benefits were issued on time.
⚠️ Due to the federal shutdown, November FoodShare benefits will be delayed — even if the shutdown ends prior to Nov 1st.
❗ QUEST cards may not work starting Nov. 1, even if you had funds remaining at the end of October.
🛒 Members may want to consider utilizing funds prior to Oct 31st to stock up on non-perishable food.
📬 DHS is notifying members by mail, text, email & online.
💡 WIC, Medicaid & BadgerCare Plus programs are still active during this shutdown.
📞 Need help? Call 211, text your ZIP to 898211, or visit 211wisconsin.communityos.org..
Stay informed: dhs.wisconsin.gov/foodshare/news
