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Reading PA Welfare Programs and Statistics

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Popular Benefits in Reading, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Children's Health Insurance Program

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Insurance benefit

The Pennsylvania Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a partnership between Pennsylvania and the Federal Government that provides health coverage to uninsured children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to af...

Pennsylvania Head Start

Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Child Care benefit

Head Start is a Federal program that promotes the school readiness of children from birth to age five from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Head Start programs provide a learning environment that su...

Pennsylvania Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Energy Assistance benefit

The Pennsylvania Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps low income people pay their heating bills through energy assistance grants. People need not have an unpaid bill to receive energy assistance. People can receive this money with...

Pennsylvania Medicaid Program

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare benefit

Medicaid provides payment for health care services on behalf of eligible low-income persons and individuals with limited income and high medical expenses. Payments are made directly to the health care providers for services, medications, and medical ...

Pennsylvania School Breakfast and Lunch Program

U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit

The School Breakfast Program provides funding that makes it possible for schools to offer a nutritious breakfast to students each day. Similarly, the goal of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is to protect the health and well-being of the nati...

Pennsylvania Special Milk Program

U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit

The Special Milk Program (SMP) provides Federal reimbursement for milk served to children in schools and childcare institutions that do not participate in Federal meal programs. Any school or non-profit childcare institution, including summer camps a...

Pennsylvania Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit

The Women, Infants, and Children (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 determine...

Pennsylvania Summer Food Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit

In 1968, the United States Congress established the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) for Children. The purpose of the program is to provide meals for children from low-income families during the summer months when many school cafeterias are closed....

Pennsylvania Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are used to buy food and help low income households obtain more nutritious diets by increasing the food purchasing power for all eligible participants. The recipient receives a plastic card, t...

Pennsylvania Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Living Assistance benefit

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provides money for dependent children and their parents or other relatives with whom they live, and for pregnant women. The Federal government and Pennsylvania fund TANF payments....

Pennsylvania Unemployment Insurance

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Employment Assistance benefit

The Federal-State Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs provide unemployment benefits to eligible workers who become unemployed through no fault of their own, and meet certain other eligibility requirements. Pennsylvania currently administers the f...

Pennsylvania Weatherization Assistance Program

Energy Assistance benefit

The mission of the Pennsylvania Weatherization Assistance Program is to reduce energy consumption and cost in low-income households throughout Pennsylvania. It is designed to insulate the homes of low-income persons, particularly the elderly, persons...

Reading, Pennsylvania Head Start Office Locations

14 Head Start Office Locations in Reading, PA

Berks County MSHS Center

(610) 988-1675

121 S 2nd St Reading PA 19602

Live n Learn Station

(610) 373-5225

135 S 5th St Reading PA 19602

Education Centre 1-7 Head Start

(610) 987-8246

2101 Centre Ave Reading PA 19605

Emma's Place 1 & 2 Head Start

(610) 898-8995

334 Orange St Reading PA 19602

Oakbrook 1 & 2 Head Start

(610) 898-8993

1001 Scott St Oakbrook Housing Project Reading PA 19611

St. Paul's 1-7 Head Start

(610) 987-8490

151 N 9th St Reading PA 19601

St. Luke's 1-4 Head Start

(610) 898-8490

449 N 9th St St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church Reading PA 19601

Reading Muhlenburg AM/PM Head Start

(610) 921-7320

2615 Warren Rd Reading PA 19604

Lower Alsace Head Start

(610) 987-8363

705 Friedensburg Rd Reading PA 19606

Glenside 1 & 2 Head Start

(610) 898-8994

1301 Schuylkill Ave Glenside Housing Project Reading PA 19601

Nativity Lutheran Church 1-3 Head Start

(610) 898-8998

1501 N 13th St Reading PA 19604

Mifflin Park

(610) 898-1489

598 Governor Dr Reading PA 19607

Cumru

(610) 775-5081

601 Philadelphia Ave Reading PA 19607

Holy Cross Head Start

(610) 898-8948

329 N 5th St Reading PA 19601