CHIP Information
There is no role that we play that is more important than that of parent. It is a rewarding position that includes ongoing responsibility and satisfaction in seeing our children grow into healthy and well rounded adults. Keeping that in mind, more of our families are seeing that their incomes do not cover health care costs and health coverage may be non existent in their employee benefits. Welfare benefits those families with lower income, but many families earnings exceed the maximum to qualify for welfare.
The CHIP program - the Children's Health Insurance Program - provides free or low cost health insurance for children. It covers the cost of immunizations, routine checkups, prescriptions and a host of other services. CHIP has been formulated for working families and over 80,000 children in Pennsylvania are enrolled.