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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Introduction

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• Special Pharmacy, which provides state-funded assistance to qualifying individuals to pay for anti-rejection drugs needed after transplants, and certain anti-psychotic drugs. • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps, which provides a monthly financial supplement to qualifying low income families to purchase nutritious food. • SNAP Employment and Training (SNAP E&T), which provides SNAP clients with opportunities to gain skills, training, or experience to improve their employment prospects and reduce their reliance on SNAP benefits. • West Virginia Children’s Health Insurance Program (WVCHIP), providing comprehensive health insurance to certain children whose income is too high to be eligible for Medicaid. • WV WORKS, West Virginia’s implementation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), provides monthly cash assistance along with a variety of employment and education related services to low income families with dependent children with the goals of assisting economically dependent and at-risk families to become self- supporting, enhancing the well-being of children, and assisting families near the poverty level to remain self-sufficient. Policies related to Emergency and Special Assistance Programs are also included in the IMM. • Emergency Assistance, which is used to help qualifying individuals and families address a financial crisis when they are without available resources. • Indigent Burial, which provides assistance with a decent burial for qualifying low- income individuals who die and have no resources to pay for the interment costs at the time of death. • Special Reduced Residential Service Rate (20% Utility Program), which enables certain SNAP, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and WV WORKS clients to receive a 20% discount from their natural gas, electric and water companies during the winter months. • Summer EBT (SEBT) provides summer feeding assistance to income eligible children whose school participates in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and receives free or reduced priced meals, or receives another qualifying benefit administered by the Department. • Tele-Assistance and Lifeline, which provide reduced rate telephone service to qualified low-income individuals. • Refugee Assistance, which provides cash and medical assistance to eligible refugees, regardless of nationality.