10 services in Berks County. Cash assistance (TANF) is a small monthly payment for families with children, with work requirements, and the same office pays one-time emergency help for a shelter deposit or a burial. These are the offices, and the organizations that help you apply.
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Reading
The Berks County Assistance Office is the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services office in Reading where county residents apply for and renew state benefits. Pennsylvania offers assistance and…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Countywide
Cash assistance is a group of programs from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, handled locally by county assistance offices such as the Berks County Assistance Office, that give temporary…
From Berks County Assistance Office
The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs gives grants of up to $5,000 to servicemembers and their families who face an unexpected financial emergency, through the Pennsylvania…
From Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Countywide
The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) runs the Veterans Temporary Assistance (VTA) Program, which gives temporary financial assistance of up to $1,600 in a 12-month…
From Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Countywide · By referral only
Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors pays emergency bills for veterans in crisis, covering things like rent, a housing security deposit, a mortgage payment, minor home repair, basic utilities such as gas…
From Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors
Reading
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres has an Information and Referral team in Reading that connects individuals and families to the resources they need and helps them work through the paperwork. Staff are…
From Centro Hispano Daniel Torres
Countywide
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank helps residents of Berks and Schuylkill counties apply for SNAP benefits, the food assistance many people still call food stamps. The help is for people who live in…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Reading
The Council on Chemical Abuse, also called COCA, is a Berks County nonprofit that helps people sort out how to pay for drug and alcohol treatment. If your co-pay or deductible for treatment is…
From Council on Chemical Abuse
Countywide · Not taking applications right now
Family Promise of Berks County runs a Rent & Utility Assistance Program that offers emergency financial assistance to help families facing eviction or utility shut-off stay in their homes. That help…
From Family Promise of Berks County
READING
The Salvation Army Reading Citadel runs a program called SHARE that helps people in the community get necessities they cannot cover on their own. SHARE helps provide prescriptions, utility bills…
From The Salvation Army Reading Citadel
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