The Secretary may carry out a special supplemental nutrition program to assist State agencies through grants-in-aid and other means to provide, through local agencies, at no cost, supplemental foods, nutrition education, and breastfeeding support and promotion to low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children who satisfy the eligibility requirements specified in subsection (d) of this section. The program shall be supplementary to—
(A)#
the supplemental nutrition assistance program;
(B)#
any program under which foods are distributed to needy families in lieu of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits; and
(C)#
receipt of food or meals from soup kitchens, or shelters, or other forms of emergency food assistance.