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This page provides information about COVID-19 to Texans receiving HHS services.

Texas Health and Human Services is partnering with the Texas Department of Agriculture and the Texas Education Agency to provide school year 2021–2022 Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) benefits to eligible children.

P-EBT Summary: Summer P-EBT (June–August 2022) is for families with children (K–12) who are certified for free or reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and for families with children born on or after Aug. 1, 2015, who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits.

CHIP covers children in families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford to buy private insurance.

Most Medicaid services and all Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) services are delivered through health plans. If you have Medicaid or CHIP, your health plan makes sure you get the health care services you need.

Pregnant women without health insurance might be able to get free health coverage during their pregnancy through Medicaid for Pregnant Women or the CHIP Perinatal program. Medicaid provides health coverage to low-income pregnant women during pregnancy and up to two months after the birth of the baby.

Children's Medicaid is a health care program for children in low-income families. CHIP is a health care program for children whose families earn too much to get Medicaid but cannot afford health insurance.

Texas sponsors two programs to help families pay for insurance: the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Health Insurance Premium Payment (HIPP) program.

The Repatriation Program provides temporary assistance, in the form of a loan, to qualified U.S. citizens and their dependents who experience unexpected and unavoidable problems abroad and helps them resume their lives in the United States.

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) cover half of all children in the state and help provide care for two-thirds of people in nursing homes.

Learn more about the variety of Medicaid, CHIP and other healthcare benefits HHS offers.

HHS provides services to Texas women such as aiding in preventing unintended pregnancies, nurturing healthier pregnancies, addressing domestic violence and taking care of children.