Welfare/Non-TANF

"What You Need To Know About WV Works and Welfare Reform."  One chapter from the "Making Connections" information book and web site.  This chapter will tell you much about welfare benefits in WV, the time limits on getting welfare, and ...

A very brief listing of many different types of public assistance that are available in West Virginia, with some helpful information about each.  Welfare, Medicaid, School Clothing Vouchers, the WIC Program, and more.  Learn more about ...

What can you do if your application for benefits was denied?  Or you've been cut off from benefits you were getting?  You can appeal and ask for a "Fair Hearing."  Learn more about what federal law requires the WV Department of ...

October 2009 DHHR listing of all county offices for "Children & Families" programs, including cash assistance, food stamps, medicaid, and others.  (Note: Child Support offices may be at different locations.) Keywords: dhhr tanf ...

Each year DHHR provides "School Clothing Vouchers." The vouchers give you $200 for each school-age child in your household, to buy them new clothes for school.  The application deadline is July 31.  Learn more with this ...

One chapter from the "Making Connections" information book and web site.  Covers Food Stamps, Housing, Medical Assistance, Child Care, and more. 

Information on the background history and development of welfare benefit programs, with a special emphasis on Appalachia.  Prepared in 2003 by the Direct Action Welfare Group (DAWG). Keywords: welfare TANF AFDC benefits

The "Direct Action Welfare Group (DAWG)" in Charleston, WV provides training, support, and advocacy to empower people in poverty to be heard on the national, regional, and state levels to ensure that they have a voice in the policies that affect ...

West Virginia is one of only two states that help low-income families buy good school clothes for their kids.  Learn more about the School Clothing voucher program with this information from the state DHHR web site. Keywords: clothes ...

Use West Virginia's on-line application page, to apply for medicaid, CHIP, welfare, Food Stamps and many other programs.  An in-person interview may also be required, but this step gets the process started. Keywords: benefits welfare ...

Hundreds of benefit choices for you.  Many ways to search.  Benefits.gov--the official benefits website of the U.S. Government.  Find out about all kinds of benefit programs that may help you and your family.  Click here to go ...

Link to a page on the DHHR web site where you can get the office address and contact information for the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement office in each county. Keywords: bcse dhhr bcse offices child support department of health and ...

The burial assistance program assists with payment up to $1250 toward the cost of funeral expenses for an indigent adult or child.  Learn more from the state DHHR web site. Keywords: funeral cemetery cemetary cremation