Click here for information on the A.F.D.C. Unemployed Parent; Foster Care; and Emergency Assistance Programs.
Click here for information on General Relief Interim Assistance; Indigent Burial; Medical Maintenance: and the Unattached Child Programs.
Auxiliary Grants Program (AG):
Provides financial assistance to certain needy aged, blind, or disabled persons in licensed Adult Care Residences whose income is insufficient to cover the cost of their care.
Employment Services Program (Job Opportunity and Basic Skills [JOBS] Training Program):
Provides services to able-bodied individuals receiving AFDC to assist them to enter the job stream and become self-sufficient. This program includes job search, work experience, education, and training. Supportive services, such as transportation and assistance with day care costs, are also provided.
Food Stamp Program:
Provides benefits to supplement the food budgets of low-income households to help needy individuals and families obtain a nutritionally adequate diet. Benefits are based on income, resources, shelter costs, and certain non-financial criteria such as age, disability, student status, and registration for the Training and Employment Program (FSET), where applicable.
Energy Assistance Program:
Provides financial assistance during the winter heating season to pay for the primary heating fuel of households which meet certain income and resource criteria. Emergency assistance can also be provided to households to buy, rebuild, repair a primary heating source or pay for security deposits (once-per-lifetime) necessary to have the primary heating source turned on or to prevent its cut-off. Benefits of this program are based on availability of federal funding.
Medicaid Program: Provides medical assistance to medically needy and indigent individuals and families and children. Eligibility is determined according to income, resource, and other criteria established by the State Department of Medical Assistance Services.
Refugee Resettlement Program:
Provides financial assistance and medical assistance (Medicaid) to eligible refugees who settle in Virginia. This assistance is limited to 8 months from the date of entry into the United States.
State-Local Hospitalization Program:
Medical assistance is provided to needy individuals and families who are not eligible for medical assistance through Medicaid and who have income below 100% of the federal poverty level and resources of $1,000 or less. This program provides outpatient, inpatient hospital care and emergency room services in hospitals and the Public Health Department, but does not pay for prescription medication.
Weatherization Program: Assists low income households to offset the high cost of home heating by permanently weatherizing dwellings. Work may include reducing air infiltration and installing insulation and storm windows. In Norfolk, the Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Program (STOP) administers this program through referrals from the Norfolk Division of Social Services during the winter heating season.