Idaho Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Idaho offers the Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) so your children—infants to teens—may qualify for health insurance at no cost to you. SCHIP provides insurance to working and non-working families. It allows you-parents, grandparents, and ...
Idaho Food Stamp Program
The Food Stamp Program helps put food on the table for approximately 34,000 Idaho households and 85,000 individual Idahoans every day. It provides low income households with a card which can be used instead of cash to purchase food items to ensure th...
Idaho Head Start
Head Start is a national program that provides comprehensive developmental services for low-income preschool children and their families. Currently funded at approximately $4.3 billion nationally, Head Start serves over 750,000 children and their fam...
Idaho Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
The Low-Income High Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) assists low-income Idaho residents with the high cost of home energy. Funding is provided from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) block grant through the U.S. Department of He...
Idaho Medicaid
Idaho Medicaid is the state and Federal partnership that provides health coverage for selected categories of people in Idaho with low incomes. Its purpose is to improve the health of people who might otherwise go without medical care for themselves a...
Idaho School Breakfast and Lunch Program
The School Breakfast and Lunch Programs make nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free meals available to school children each school day. Over 92,000 schools offer lunches at school, and nearly 70,000 schools offer breakfast at school. School breakfa...
Idaho Special Milk Program
The Special Milk Program provides reimbursement for milk served to children in programs where they have no access to lunch either through the National School Lunch Program or the Child and Adult Care Food Program. These programs include half-time kin...
Idaho 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 ...
Idaho Summer Food Service
The Idaho Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides reimbursement for free, nutritious meals and snacks served to Idaho children 18 and younger. These meals help children in low-income areas get the nutrition they need to learn, play, and grow thro...
Idaho Temporary Assistance for Families in Idaho (TAFI)
Temporary Assistance for Families in Idaho (TAFI) is the monthly cash assistance program for low-income families in Idaho. The program goal is to provide necessary assistance to needy families with children on a temporary basis and provide parents wi...
Idaho Unemployment Insurance
Unemployment insurance benefits provide temporary financial
assistance to workers unemployed through no fault of their own that meet
Idaho's eligibility requirements....
