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Coben details how end to covid emergency will impact West Virginians

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Thursday officially marked the end of covid designated as a public health emergency in the U.S.

During a briefing Thursday with Governor Jim Justice, Interim DHHR Secretary Jeff Coben said the end of the emergency will impact many federal programs.

Jeff Coben

“What we want to make sure is that that has the least impact upon the citizens here in West Virginia,” Coben said

The programs most impacted by the ending of the federal emergency, according to Coben, are Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Pandemic EBT programs.

Coben encouraged anyone who’s involved with any of those listed programs to check out there website.

“We’ll continue to put information out there for anyone that has participated in any of those programs,” said Coben.

For more information, visit coronavirus.wv.gov.





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