Assistance programs in Utah
Explore public benefits and assistance resources by the kind of help you need. Agencies decide eligibility and availability.
Find programs for your situationFood assistance
Utah SNAP (Food Assistance)
SNAP is Utah's food assistance program: monthly food money loaded onto an EBT card you use like a debit card at most grocery stores.
Utah WIC
WIC gives healthy food, breastfeeding support, nutrition education, and health referrals to pregnant and postpartum people, infants, and children up to age 5.
Utility assistance
Weatherization Assistance Program (Utah)
Utah's Weatherization Assistance Program makes free energy-efficiency improvements, insulation, air sealing, and heating-system repairs, so your utility bills drop over time.
Utah HEAT (Home Energy Assistance)
HEAT is Utah's home energy assistance program, the state's version of LIHEAP, helping low-income households with heating and other home energy costs.
Health coverage
Utah Medicaid
Utah Medicaid is free or low-cost health coverage for children, pregnant people, parents, older adults, people with disabilities, and low-income adults.
Utah CHIP (Children's Health Insurance)
Utah CHIP is low-cost health coverage for uninsured children and teens whose family earns too much for Medicaid but still needs help paying for care.
Cash and income support
Family Employment Program (Utah Cash Assistance)
The Family Employment Program, FEP, is Utah's monthly cash assistance for low-income families with children, run by the Department of Workforce Services.
Unemployment Insurance (Utah)
Temporary weekly payments if you lost work through no fault of your own, from the Utah Department of Workforce Services.
Utah Earned Income Tax Credit
It is nonrefundable, which means it lowers the Utah income tax you owe but does not pay out as a refund on its own, and you cannot carry any unused part to another year.
Additional support
211 Utah
211 Utah: how to apply, documents to prepare and common questions.
Utah Legal Services & Timpanogos Legal Center
Utah Legal Services provides free civil legal help to low-income Utahns on housing and eviction, family, public benefits, consumer, and other noncriminal matters.
Program names come from our existing directory. Funding and rules can change; confirm details with the administering agency before applying.