Government Benefits Available to Vermont Citizens
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Popular Benefits in Vermont
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Healthcare benefit
Vermont's Dr. Dynasaur offers health care insurance for eligible Vermont children, teenagers up to 18, and pregnant women....
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...
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare benefit
Medicaid is a government health insurance program for Vermonters. It's for eligible seniors 65 or older, people who are blind or disabled, children, pregnant women and parents. Medicaid covers most medical care and services, such as doctor visits, ho...
Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Living Assistance benefit
Vermont Reach Up helps families with children by providing services that support work, cash assistance for basic necessities, and health insurance. Eligibility depends on your income, resources, living expenses, who lives with you, your ability to wo...
Vermont 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...
Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance
Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Energy Assistance benefit
The Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance can provide any eligible person physically present in a living unit in Vermont with fuel assistance by paying their heat directly to a fuel supplier, or by giving assistance to people whose rent includes the cost ...
U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit
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 ...
Vermont Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit
Vermont WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, helps pregnant women, new mothers and young children eat well, learn about nutrition and physical activity, and connect to health care and other programs and ser...
U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit
The Vermont SFSP was created to ensure that children in low-income areas could continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations, when they do not have access to school lunch or breakfast. The program reimburses contractors who serve...
Vermont Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Stamps benefit
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are benefits for recipients to purchase food. You use a Vermont Express electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card to use your SNAP benefits. You can use a Vermont Express card at most stores that sell foo...
Vermont Unemployment Insurance
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Employment Assistance benefit
Unemployment insurance benefits provide temporary financial assistance to workers unemployed through no fault of their own that meet Vermont's eligibility requirements....
Vermont Weatherization Assistance Program
Energy Assistance benefit
The mission of the Weatherization Program of Vermont is to reduce the energy costs for low-income families, particularly for the elderly, people with disabilities, and children, by improving the energy efficiency and comfort of their homes while ensu...