This document provides information about the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), which provides a free monthly box of nutritious food to low-income seniors, young children, and postpartum women. The program is available to those living in Milwaukee, Jefferson, Ozaukee, Rock, and Waukesha counties with household incomes at or below 130% of the federal poverty level. The food boxes are delivered to senior centers, residences, and food pantries each month for participants or proxies to pick up. The program helps improve nutrition and makes ends meet for tight budgets.

1. Critical Tools for Preventing Hunger

2. Free Food for Low-Income Seniors
The Commodity Supplemental Food
Program (CSFP)

3.  Free box of nutritious
food
 Delivered monthly
 To low-income:
Senior citizens
WIC graduates
(children 5 years old
and mothers)
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4. Milwaukee, Jefferson, Ozaukee, Rock, Washington
or Waukesha County residents that are:
 Low-income
 60 years of age or older
 Low-income children up to six that are
not receiving WIC
 Low-income women 7 – 12 months postpartum
that are not receiving WIC
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5. Household income at or below 130% of Federal
Poverty level
Household Size Income at or below
1 Person $1,180 per month
2 People $1,593 per month
3 People $2,007 per month
For each additional person in the household add $414
per month
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6. Nutritious Foods that help stretch tight food budgets!
 Fruit juice and shelf  Cereal
stable fluid milk
 Peanut butter
 Canned vegetables &
fruit  Rice, dried beans or
pasta
 Cheese
 Canned meat or fish.
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7.  Stockboxes are delivered
by Hunger Task Force at
99 distribution sites:
◦ Senior centers
◦ Senior residences
◦ Food pantries
 Participants or proxies
pick up the box monthly
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8.  Improved nutrition
 Convenient
delivery, especially for
the home bound
 Helpsseniors make ends meet by
supplementing tight food budgets
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9.  Hunger Task Force authorized to distribute
up to 10,000 Stockboxes every month.
 Current monthly caseload: 9400
 There is no waiting list!
 Call 211/IMPACT or Hunger Task Force to
find out where to sign up for Stockbox
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10. Rick Lewandowski
CSFP Monitor
Hunger Task Force
201 S. Hawley Court
Milwaukee, WI 53214
414-777-0483
Rick@hungertaskforce.org
U.S. Department of Agriculture CSFP
Information
www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs/csfp/
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