West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program (WV CHIP)
The West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program (WV CHIP) provides quality health insurance to eligible children and strives to develop a health care system in which all West Virginia children can access health care coverage. WV CHIP is a free ...
West Virginia Head Start
The Head Start program (for children ages 3-5) and Early Head Start program (for pregnant women, infants, and toddlers) promote school readiness for children in low-income families by providing comprehensive educational, health, nutritional, and soci...
West Virginia Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP)
The West Virginia Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) assists eligible households with the cost of home heating through direct cash payments or payments to utility companies on their behalf. A crisis component is available for households wit...
West Virginia Medicaid
The West Virginia Medicaid Program provides a medical card which
may be used to receive medical care in the community or in an institutional
setting, such as a nursing home. This allows those who may no...
West Virginia School Breakfast and Lunch Program
Each day public schools across the State of West Virginia serve more than 180,000 students healthy, well-balanced meals through the National School Breakfast and Lunch Programs. The School Breakfast Program provides funding that makes it possible for...
West Virginia Special Milk Program
The Special Milk Program provides milk to children in schools, childcare institutions and eligible camps that do not participate in other Federal child nutrition meal service programs. Schools that participate in the National School Lunch or School B...
West Virginia Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
The WIC Program provides supplemental foods, nutrition education and referrals to health care, at no cost, to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are determined to be at nutritional risk. To ...
West Virginia Summer Food Service
The West Virginia Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides nutritious meals to children who would normally receive free or reduced price meals when school is in session. This helps children to maintain a nutritious diet and helps their families to...
West Virginia Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
The West Virginia Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides monthly benefits to help eligible households buy food. Eligibility to receive benefits is based on household size, income, assets and some household expenses. SNAP may only b...
West Virginia Unemployment Insurance
Unemployment insurance benefits provide temporary financial
assistance to workers unemployed through no fault of their own that meet
West Virginia's eligibility requirements....
West Virginia WORKS
West Virginia's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program is WV WORKS. It is based on the goals of assisting economically dependent and at-risk families to become self supporting, enhancing the well-being of children, and on assisting fa...
West Virginia Weatherization Assistance Program
The Weatherization Assistance Program is the nation's largest residential energy efficiency program. Its mission is to insulate the dwellings of low-income persons, particularly the elderly, persons with disabilities, families with children, high res...
