How to Use Your Card
The Healthy Savings Card helps you buy fresh fruits and vegetables at participating grocery stores.
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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 fruit and vegetable purchase will be automatically deducted from your monthly benefit amount.
Program Details:
- Eligible foods: Fresh fruits and vegetables
- Benefits:
- Your Healthy Savings card will be loaded on the 1st of each month with $40 for fresh fruits and vegetables.
- 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.
- Benefits expire at the end of the month.
- Program Duration: Please contact the site where you were enrolled to find out more about the duration of your program benefits.
Check Your Balance
Your card will be automatically loaded on the 1st of each month with $40 – eligible for fresh fruits and vegetables. Please remember that your benefits will NOT roll over month to month.
To check your card balance, visit the Healthy Savings website at https://healthysavings.com/V4V/Account/BalanceCheck.
Store Locations
The Healthy Savings card can be used at a variety of stores, including Safeway, FoodsCo, Albertsons, Ralphs, Walmart, and more!
To find participating stores that accept the Healthy Savings card near you, visit https://healthysavings.com/base/Stores/StoreFinder.
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 Healthy Savings card balance, please visit https://healthysavings.com/V4V/Account/BalanceCheck and enter the 17 digit card number and 4 digit security code on the back of your card.
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?
Email: v4vsupport@ucsf.edu
Phone: 1-833-V4V-EATS (1-833-848-3287)
