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The Berks County Area Agency on Aging offers Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks, which people who qualify can use to buy food from farmers. The program begins June 1st, and checks are available…
From Berks County Area Agency on Aging
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Maternal and Family Health Services runs WIC nutrition centers in 17 Pennsylvania counties, including Reading and greater Berks County, and gives people enrolled in WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition…
From Maternal and Family Health Services
Countywide · Waiting list
Helping Harvest runs the Senior Food Box Program, which provides a box of food every month to more than 2,100 low-income senior citizens. The box is a supplement to what you normally buy, meant to…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Countywide · Seasonal
The Summer Food Service Program, run nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and administered in Pennsylvania by the Department of Education, provides free, nutritious meals to children when…
From Pennsylvania Department of Education
Reading
Hope Rescue Mission serves three meals a day to the men staying in its emergency shelter programs at 645 North Sixth Street in Reading. The meals come with a shelter bed rather than as a separate…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Countywide
Berks Encore runs Meals on Wheels Berks County, which delivers meals to the homes of older adults who are unable to prepare their own food because of physical limitations. Along with the meal, a…
From Berks Encore
Countywide · Access to a free nutritionist
Maternal and Family Health Services runs the WIC Nutrition Program, which helps families buy healthy groceries and gives them nutrition support during pregnancy and while their children are small.…
From Maternal and Family Health Services
Countywide · Taking applications
Children in Pennsylvania can get school breakfast and lunch free or at a reduced price when their household income falls under federal limits. The United States Department of Agriculture released the…
From Pennsylvania Department of Education
Reading
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank has staff who will guide you to food assistance in your local community if you are not sure where to go for help. The food bank works with more than 350 charitable…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Reading
Berks Encore, working with Redner's Warehouse Markets, sends a volunteer to buy your groceries and bring them to your home on a regular basis if you have difficulty getting to a grocery store or…
From Berks Encore
Countywide
Helping Harvest runs the Weekender Program, which sends a bag of healthy, non-perishable food home on Fridays with students who are food insecure, so they have something to eat over the weekend. The…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Countywide · Seasonal
The Weekender Bag Program, run through the Conrad Weiser Food Pantry hosted at Trinity Lutheran Church in Robesonia, provides kid-friendly, nutritious, nonperishable food for Conrad Weiser students…
From Conrad Weiser Food Pantry at Trinity Lutheran Church
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The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) administers the Blind Veterans Pension, which pays eligible veterans a monthly pension of $150 when a service-connected injury or…
From Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
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The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) runs the Amputee and Paralyzed Veterans Pension, which pays eligible veterans a monthly pension of $150. To qualify, you must have…
From Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Countywide · Taking applications
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry runs the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program, which provides temporary income support if you lose your job through no fault of your own, or if…
From PA Department of Labor and Industry
Reading · Taking applications
The Berks County Assistance Office is the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services office in Reading where people apply for and renew state assistance. Pennsylvania offers assistance and other…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Reading
Cash assistance is a group of programs from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services that give temporary financial support to Pennsylvanians with low incomes to pay for everyday expenses. In…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Countywide
Keystone Warriors is an Eastern Pennsylvania nonprofit that provides emergency financial assistance to veterans wounded in service on or after September 11, 2001, covering costs such as utilities…
From Keystone Warriors
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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
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
Mohnton
The Berks County Assessment Office takes appeals from property owners who believe their property assessment is wrong, and it posts the forms needed to file one. The office maintains ownership and…
From Berks County Assessment Office
Reading
The Berks County Tax Claim Bureau offers a Hardship Agreement, a payment plan for people who have fallen behind on their property taxes because of illness or injury. To qualify, you must be…
From Berks County Tax Claim Bureau
Countywide · Taking applications
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue's Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program pays a yearly rebate of $380 to $1,000 to older adults and people with disabilities who own or rent their home. Applications…
From Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
Reading
The Berks County Tax Claim Bureau runs a Tax Deferral Program that offers tax assistance to senior citizens who are having difficulty paying the property taxes they owe. You have to apply for it, and…
From Berks County Tax Claim Bureau
Countywide
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue offers free in-person help filling out and filing Property Tax/Rent Rebate (PTRR) applications. Department representatives visit senior and community centers…
From Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
Countywide
The IRS runs two programs, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE), that offer free basic tax return preparation through IRS-certified volunteers. The VITA…
From IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
Reading
Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services offers help with burial or cremation costs for people who meet its eligibility rules. The local County Assistance Office determines eligibility. In Berks…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Countywide
United Way of Berks County keeps a Get Help page that gathers the main Berks County contacts and practical steps for people whose money is short, covering food, housing and utilities, child care…
From United Way of Berks County
Allentown
The Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement Program contracts with organizations throughout the state to help refugees, and the Department of Human Services publishes the list of those organizations with…
From Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement Program
Reading
The Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) gives victims a substitute mailing address so their real home address stays out of public records where the person who harmed them might find it. It is…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
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Connections Work serves as the pretrial agency for Berks County and operates the Berks County Community Release (bail) Program, the county-approved bail program. For 24-hour bail assistance, call…
From Connections Work
Reading
Berks County Family Court posts custody and divorce forms, local filing instructions and lawyer referral information for people who go to court in Berks County without a lawyer. The forms and…
From Berks County Court of Common Pleas
Countywide
The Berks County Bar Association's Modest Means Program matches people who earn too much to qualify for Legal Aid with an active, qualified Berks County attorney who will represent them at a…
From Berks County Bar Association
Harrisburg
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General takes complaints from people who believe a business, a scammer, a health care provider, an employer or someone else has treated them wrongly. The office…
From Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
Reading
The Protection From Abuse Office of the Berks County courts is where you file for a PFA, a civil order of the court available to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. The order…
From Berks County Court of Common Pleas
Reading
The Berks County Bar Association's Lawyer Referral Service matches a person who needs a lawyer with an attorney in Berks County who handles their kind of legal problem, such as a foreclosure…
From Berks County Bar Association
Countywide
MidPenn Legal Services is a nonprofit public interest law firm that provides free civil legal services to low income residents and to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in 18 counties…
From MidPenn Legal Services
Countywide
MidPenn Legal Services is a non-profit, public interest law firm that takes civil housing cases, including eviction, habitability, mortgage foreclosure, tenant's rights and public housing. It also…
From MidPenn Legal Services
Countywide
MidPenn Legal Services helps low-income people in Berks County with problems involving public benefit programs, so they can provide for themselves and their families. Its lawyers provide free…
From MidPenn Legal Services
Reading · All services are provided free of charge
The Victim/Witness Assistance Unit of the Berks County District Attorney's Office helps victims and witnesses of crime, and their immediate family members, through the judicial process. Staff act as…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
Countywide
Safe Berks legal advocates help victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with protection orders and with the police and court process. An advocate can come with you to a police interview, come…
From Safe Berks
Reading
The Berks County Public Defender's Office provides lawyers to people charged with crimes who cannot afford to hire an attorney, including juveniles charged with delinquency. Its attorneys handle…
From Berks County Public Defender
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The Berks County District Attorney's Office issued a warning on Monday, August 31, 2026 about a phone scam in which callers pretend to be Berks County Sheriff's deputies or other court officials, and…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
Reading · Returned Check Fee - $50.00
The Berks County magisterial district courts hear civil claims where the disputed amount is less than $12,000.00, landlord and tenant disputes, and summary offenses, meaning traffic and non-traffic…
From Berks County Magisterial District Courts
Reading
The Victim/Witness Assistance Unit of the Berks County District Attorney's Office helps crime victims open a claim with the Victims Compensation Assistance Program, known as VCAP, which pays back…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
Countywide
The Victims Compensation Assistance Program, run by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, helps victims of crime in Pennsylvania with expenses related to a crime. Claims are filed…
From Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
Countywide
The Immigrant Survivors Project of the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC) provides free immigration legal services to immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human…
From Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center
Reading
Community Justice Project (CJP) runs an immigration legal practice out of its Reading, PA office, and its immigration team is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. The team represents clients…
From Community Justice Project