How to Use Your Card
Your Healthy Savings card buys fresh fruits and vegetables only at any Walmart, Vons, Albertsons, Pavilions, Safeway, FoodsCo, Food 4 Less, and Ralphs stores. If you experience any issues, please contact the store manager onsite.
When shopping with your Healthy Savings Card at Food 4 Less, Foods Co, and Ralphs: Card cannot be combined with EBT or WIC in the same transaction. Separate your fresh fruits and vegetables from your other groceries and ask cashier to start a separate transaction using the Healthy Savings card to buy only your fresh fruits and vegetables.
Program Overview
Your Healthy Savings card will be loaded on the 1st of each month with $40 for fresh fruits and vegetables. You can use your card at any of the participating stores. At check-out, simply present your card to be scanned by the cashier, and the cost of your fresh fruit and vegetable purchase will be automatically deducted from your monthly benefit amount.
Program Details:
- Eligible foods: Fresh fruits and vegetables only
- Benefits:
- Your Healthy Savings card will be loaded on the 1st day of each month with $40 to buy fresh fruits and vegetables.
- Benefits expire on the last day of each month.
- If you spend more than $40 a month, you will need to pay the remaining balance.
- If you spend less than $40 a month, benefits will not roll over.
- Program Duration: Please contact the site where you were enrolled to find out more about the duration of your program benefits.
How to Use Your Healthy Savings Card at Participating Stores:
Your Healthy Savings Card can be used at any Walmart, Vons, Albertsons, Pavilions, Safeway, FoodsCo, Food 4 Less, Ralphs stores to buy fresh fruits and vegetables.
*At Ralph’s, Food4Less, and FoodsCo, the Healthy Savings card does not work with WIC or EBT cards.
If you experience any issues at the store, please ask for a store manager to help.
At Walmart, Vons, Albertsons, Pavilions, and Safeway follow these instructions:
- Bring your groceries to the cashier. You can put all your groceries together (the fresh fruits and vegetables you want to pay for with your Healthy Savings card + any other items)
- After the cashier totals all your items, have them scan the barcode on your Healthy Savings Card. The balance on your Healthy Savings Card will automatically subtract from the cost of your fresh fruit and vegetables!
- Get your card back from the cashier.
- Pay any remaining balance with another form of payment (cash, credit or debit card, WIC/EBT card).
- Keep your receipt to easily remember how much you have spent on the card this month.
At Ralphs, Food4Less, and FoodsCo, this card cannot be combined with WIC or EBT in the same transaction.
At Ralphs, Food4Less, and FoodsCo stores, there are special card instructions to follow:
- Separate fresh fruits and vegetables from your other items into their own separate transaction.
- Have the cashier scan only your fruits and vegetables, then give the cashier your Healthy Savings Card and have them follow these instructions:
– first press TOTAL
– next select EFT Payment
– then scan your Healthy Savings Card - Get your card back from cashier. The balance on your Healthy Savings card will automatically subtract from the cost of your fresh fruit and vegetables!
- Pay any remaining balance with cash, debit, or credit card (not WIC or EBT at these stores).
- Keep your receipt to easily remember how much you have spent on the card this month.
Check Your Balance
Your card will be automatically loaded on the 1st of each month with $40 – eligible for fresh fruits and vegetables only. Please remember that your benefits will NOT roll over month to month.
To check your card balance, have your 17 digit card serial number and 4 digit security code ready, then:
visit the Healthy Savings website at https://healthysavings.com/V4V/Account/BalanceCheck
or call 1-833-818-8170
Store Locations
To find participating stores where you can use your the Healthy Savings card, visit https://healthysavings.com/base/Stores/StoreFinder.
Click the “Fruit and Vegetable Monthly Balance” green tab and enter your zip code.
Food4Less, Ralphs, Safeway, FoodsCo, Albertsons, Vons, Walmart, Pavilions, and some other large grocery chains accept the Healthy Savings Card.
Healthy Savings Card FAQs
Downloading the app is not required, but you can use it to check your benefit balance, find a store near you, view additional discounts, and more. To find the app, search “Healthy Savings” in the Apple Store or Google Play Store.
Your Healthy Savings card is only good for purchasing fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables but includes discounts on other healthy food items. Discounted items change each week, and the savings are automatic when you scan your Healthy Savings card. You do not need to do anything to receive these additional discounts.
To check your card balance, have your 17 digit card serial number and 4 digit security code ready, then:
visit the Healthy Savings website at https://healthysavings.com/V4V/Account/BalanceCheck
or call 1-833-818-8170
Your card will be automatically loaded with $40 (to spend on fresh fruits and vegetables only) on the 1st day of each month that you are in the program. Please remember that your benefits will NOT roll over month to month. Keep your receipts to easily track your spending each month.
After purchase, visit your online Healthy Savings account and/or app to view the transaction and the amount of benefit used. Some store receipts may also list the amount of benefit used at the bottom.
You can use your Healthy Savings card to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at any of the participating locations. At checkout, the cashier will scan the barcode on the back of the card, and the cost of your fruit and vegetable purchase will be automatically deducted from your card balance.
Your Healthy Savings card can be used at a variety of store locations, including Safeway, FoodsCo, Walmart, and more. To find participating stores near you, please visit https://healthysavings.com/base/Stores/StoreFinder and enter in your zip code.
You can only purchase fresh fruits and vegetables with your card.
Your Healthy Savings card will be loaded with $40 on the 1st of each month for 6 months. If you spend more than $40 in a month, you will have to pay the difference. You do not have to spend the full $40 in one shopping trip, but if you do not spend the entire benefit by the end of the month, your benefits will not roll over.
Your Healthy Savings card will be loaded on the 1st of each month. Check the duration of your enrollment in the program with your distribution site.
Need Assistance with your Healthy Savings Card?
First, contact where you enrolled and received the card (clinic, etc.). They will be able to help you most efficiently.
If you cannot contact where your received the card, you can contact Vouchers 4 Veggies instead with your card number and where you enrolled.
Email: v4vsupport@ucsf.edu
Phone: 1-833-V4V-EATS (1-833-848-3287)
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