Work First Family Assistance - WFFA:
Financial and medical assistance to families with children deprived of parental support with monthly payment based on needs and resources. For statistical information regarding Nash County and the WorkFirst program, click here.
Contact person: Deena Woodruff, (252) 459-1462
Medicaid:
Medical/health care to Work First Family Assistance children, their parents, blind, aged and disabled adults, pregnant women and unemployed parents.
Contact person:
Family and Children's Medicaid: Glorya McNeal, (252) 459-1274 Family & Children's Medicaid Application Health Check (Medicaid) / NC Health Choice for Children Programs
Adult Medicaid: Audrey Jones, (252) 459-1458 Adult Medicaid Application
Medicaid Family Planning Waiver (Effective October 1, 2005) North Carolina has received approval to implement a Medicaid Waiver Program targeting family planning services only. The Family Planning Waiver is a 5 year demonstration waiver that intends to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well being of children and families in North Carolina by offering family planning services. The 1998 Pregnancy Risk Assessment monitoring System (PRAMS) data indicated that 44% of women report their pregnancy was unintended. North Carolina has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the Nation. By helping women to time and space their pregnancies, appropriate contraceptive use may help avoid adverse health, social and economic consequences associated with unintended pregnancies. The target population for the Family Planning waiver is; Women age 19 through 22 and Men age 19 through 60 Income at or below 185% of the federal poverty level Medicaid eligibility for family planning services to men and women will; A. Allow affected women and men the opportunity to choose if and when to have children B. Provide comprehensive reproductive health care for low-income women and men who otherwise do not have access to such services and C. Improve the well being of children and families in North Carolina.
Food and Nutrition Services:
Supplements the food dollars of low income families enabling clients to purchase more nutritious food.
Contact person: Josie Green: (252) 459-1426
Emergency Financial Assistance:
Contact person: Sarah Hill, (252) 459-1434
Eye Care Program:
Pays the cost of eye exams, treatment, glasses, ocular prosthesis, hospitalization and surgery. Contact person: Jennifer Askew, (252) 459-1454
Low Income Energy Assistance (LIEAP):
One time payment for heating expenses. Applications taken for elderly and disabled beginning December 1, checks are mailed to utility companies. Contact person: Paula Person, (252) 459-1423
Program Integrity/Fraud Unit:
The Program Integrity Unit is a program support unit that devotes maximum efforts toward the prevention, detection, and recovery of overpayments in the public assistance programs.
The unit also seeks to maintain the integrity of the public assistance programs by deterring fraud through education, early detection and prosecution.
The crime of welfare fraud is committed when people: (1) receive, or attempt to receive, welfare benefits by providing the Department of Social Services with false and inaccurate information, or (2) by withholding information needed to correctly determine eligibility for welfare benefits. Contact person: Paula Person, (252) 459-1423