503 services in Berks County. The programs in Berks County that help with food, rent, bills, health care, legal trouble, a ride, child care or a benefit, and how to reach each one.
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Reading School District serves breakfast and lunch to children during the summer at school cafeterias around the city. Meals are served from June 15 to July 31, Mondays through Thursdays. Breakfast…
From Reading School District
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
Wyomissing
Wyomissing Area School District takes applications from families for free or reduced price school meals, and families must file a new application every year even if a child was approved before. What…
From Wyomissing Area School District
Schuylkill Valley School District runs a Free and Reduced Price Meals Program that lowers or removes the cost of meals at school for students whose families qualify. The page gives few details: it…
From Schuylkill Valley School District
Kutztown · Taking applications
Kutztown Area School District lets families apply for free or reduced price school breakfast and lunch for their children through a SchoolCafe account. The district takes part in the School Breakfast…
From Kutztown Area School District
Wilson School District serves school breakfast and lunch to all of its students, and families can apply to see whether their children qualify for meals at free or reduced price. The application is…
From Wilson School District
Fleetwood · Taking applications
The Fleetwood Area School District Food Service Department serves breakfast and lunch every day in each of its four schools, and breakfast is free for every student. Pennsylvania will continue…
From Fleetwood Area School District
Breakfast: FREE For All Students.
Brandywine Heights Area School District serves breakfast and lunch to its students in every school cafeteria, with breakfast free for all students and lunch sold at a set price. Breakfast and lunch…
From Brandywine Heights Area School District
Muhlenberg School District serves breakfast and lunch free to every student at all of its schools, with no application to fill out. All school meals will be served free for all children for the…
From Muhlenberg School District
Taking applications
Antietam School District gives every one of its students one breakfast and one lunch at no cost each school day in the 2026-2027 school year. All Antietam School District students qualify. There is…
From Antietam School District
Every student in the Reading School District can get a free breakfast and a free lunch each day through the district's Food Service Program, under the Community Eligibility Provision of the Healthy…
From Reading School District
Birdsboro
The Daniel Boone Area School District Food Services department serves breakfast and lunch to students in its school cafeterias, and breakfast is free at both the full price and the reduced price.…
From Daniel Boone Area School District
Tulpehocken Area School District serves breakfast free of charge at all of its schools and lets families apply for free or reduced price lunch for their children. For the 2026-2027 school year…
From Tulpehocken Area School District
Reading
Exeter Township School District's Food Services department signs up children from low-income families for free or reduced-price school meals through a federal program. Each year the Food Services…
From Exeter Township School District
Governor Mifflin School District gives every student a free breakfast and a free lunch each school day for the 2026-2027 school year, and no application is needed. This applies to all students in the…
From Governor Mifflin School District
The Hamburg Area School District Food Service Department serves breakfast and lunch in every district building, and breakfast is free for students at both the elementary and secondary levels. Lunch…
From Hamburg Area School District
Boyertown Area School District serves breakfast and lunch in its schools and posts the prices and menus for each grade level. For the 2026-2027 school year, breakfast costs $0.00 for all students…
From Boyertown Area School District
The Twin Valley School District Food Services Department runs the meal program in the district's schools and posts information for families about free and reduced price meals, school menus and summer…
From Twin Valley School District
Reading
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres serves free afterschool snacks and suppers to children and teens at 12 approved sites in Reading. The At-Risk Afterschool Snack and Supper Program is federally funded…
From Centro Hispano Daniel Torres
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
Countywide
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
Countywide
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
Reading
PA CareerLink Berks County, at 1920 Kutztown Road, Suite F, Reading, PA 19604, offers limited help around unemployment compensation: it has fax machine services available if you need to fax an…
From PA CareerLink Berks County
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
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
Wyomissing
The Berks County Department of Veterans Affairs, also called the Etchberger Veterans Service Center, runs the Berks County Veterans Temporary Assistance (BCVTA) Grant Program, a small fund for Berks…
From Berks County Department of Veterans Affairs
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
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
Mohnton · Seasonal
The Berks County Assessment Office takes appeals from property owners who believe their property assessment is wrong, and it posts the forms you need to file one. The office keeps ownership and…
From Berks County Assessment Office
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 prepare basic federal and state tax returns at no charge through IRS-certified…
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
The Greater Reading Mental Health Alliance runs a Representative Payee Program to help people who are unable to manage their own finances keep living independently. A representative payee is…
From Greater Reading Mental Health Alliance
READING
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue keeps a district office in Reading where staff offer in-person support with state tax matters. The department describes these offices as how it offers support…
From Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
Reading · Free 24-hour Hotline.
Safe Berks sends advocates out into the community to meet survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault where they already are, including night court at the Berks County Courthouse. This is the…
From Safe Berks
Reading
The Berks County Law Library, on the 5th floor of the Berks County Courthouse in Reading, keeps a computer with access to Westlaw so people can look up the law themselves. It is a department of the…
From Berks County Court of Common Pleas
Reading · Taking applications
Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center has sexual assault nurse examiners, called SANEs, on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to care for victims of sexual assault. They are registered…
From Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center