New Hampshire benefits for college students
What New Hampshire students can get beyond financial aid: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food assistance, NH Medicaid (Medical Assistance); adult expansion: Granite Advantage Health Care Program health coverage, child care help, phone and internet discounts and tax credits, with each program's own rules and application. Each section links to the full rules.
Checked against official sources October 11, 2026
Food assistance: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
New Hampshire's name for SNAP, run by New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bureau of Family Assistance. If you are enrolled at least half-time, you need a student exemption to qualify, such as working 20 hours a week, work-study or caring for a young child. If you are enrolled less than half-time, the student rule does not apply and only the regular SNAP rules do. See every exemption →
A DHHS policy release (SR 24-27, effective October 1, 2024) says students enrolled at least half time in higher education who are assigned to, placed in, or self-placed in college through the SNAP Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) program, the NHEP program, or a WIOA program are eligible for SNAP if they meet all other SNAP rules. SNAP E&T participants can also get up to $575 a year in reimbursements for training-related costs plus transportation reimbursement. Otherwise the federal student rules apply.
Apply for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) · New Hampshire's page for students
Health coverage: NH Medicaid (Medical Assistance); adult expansion: Granite Advantage Health Care Program
New Hampshire has expanded Medicaid, so adults with low incomes, students included, can qualify based on income. All your health coverage options →
DHHS: a student entering New Hampshire for educational purposes is not considered a New Hampshire resident for Medicaid.
Apply for NH Medicaid (Medical Assistance); adult expansion: Granite Advantage Health Care Program
Child care help: NH Child Care Scholarship Program
Going to college or training can count, with limits. Under the state rules (He-C 6910, effective 3-27-25), a parent not on TANF can get the scholarship while in a training or education program that prepares them for work, leads to a degree or certificate in a specific field of employment at the associate's level or lower (no bachelor's or graduate degrees), and is not a single course apart from a degree/certificate program. Training and education are limited to 104 weeks of scholarship payments in a lifetime. Pre-requisite courses are not paid for, except up to 2 for a nursing program. TANF families can be approved for programs up to the bachelor's level. High school, HiSET, basic education and ESL are not time limited. Work-study and internships count as employment.
Apply for NH Child Care Scholarship Program · Help on campus (CCAMPIS) →
Phone and internet: Lifeline
We found no extra state Lifeline discount on New Hampshire's official pages, so the federal discount applies. Who qualifies →
Taxes
New Hampshire has no state Earned Income Tax Credit.
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