Nevada grants
& benefits: A new Health Authority, Battle Born plans and veteran exemptions.

KFF lists Nevada as adopting the Medicaid expansion with coverage from January 1, 2014; 41 states, counting DC, have done the same. That expansion group, adults 19 to 64, is the one a new federal test from H.R. 1 now reaches.

From January 1, 2027, affected adults need 80 hours of work, school or volunteering during one month before they apply or renew. Some must also prove eligibility every six months, not yearly. For people already enrolled, the test first applies at the first renewal dated January 1, 2027 or later.

Look up your renewal date by logging in to Access Nevada, which asks for your UPI and VRU numbers, or by contacting a Social Services office. Nevada Medicaid runs a hotline just for the new rule: 702-631-3310 or 775-824-7410.

Nevada Medicaid treats these groups, among others, as excluded from the hours test:

• Parents, guardians and family caregivers raising a child younger than 14
• Anyone caring for a person with a disability who needs help with bathing, dressing or chores
• Totally disabled veterans
• American Indian and Alaska Native members
• People already meeting the SNAP or TANF (NEON) work rules
• People in treatment for a drug or alcohol use disorder
• People whose health condition or disability keeps them from working, volunteering or going to school

How expansion fits into Medicaid nationwide is traced in our Medicaid program guide.

Nevada Health Link, the state's official marketplace, now sells Battle Born State Plans next to its other plans. The carriers offering them contracted with the state and must meet premium reduction targets, which is the only difference from the rest of the lineup.

These plans carry the same essential benefits, protections and cost-sharing reductions as other qualified plans, and you can buy one regardless of income. They are sold only on NevadaHealthLink.com, the one place in Nevada that applies federal premium tax credits.

Shopping for 2027 coverage opens November 1 and closes January 15. Licensed enrollment professionals help for free through the site's local assistance search or at 800-547-2927.

Nevada's Energy Assistance Program (EAP) draws on two pots: the federal LIHEAP block grant and state revenue from Nevada's Universal Energy Charge. Eligible households get one benefit a year, usually paid straight to the energy company.

EAP years start July 1 and end June 30, and DSS evaluates applications year round or until funds are gone. For July 2026 to June 2027, gross income cannot top $1,995 a month for a one-person home and $4,125 for a four-person home, plus $710 per extra person.

You must pay at least part of the heating or cooling cost. Send the paper form with 30 days of income proof for every household member, ID and recent bills by mail, fax, office drop box or energyassistance@dss.nv.gov. Past recipients wait about 11 months after their last benefit to reapply.

EAP's federal half is the block grant covered by our LIHEAP program guide.

The veterans' exemption takes $3,640 off assessed value for the 2026/2027 fiscal year. It needs 90 straight days of active duty in a listed wartime period, or service in a campaign with an authorized medal, plus an honorable discharge or certificate of satisfactory service.

Veterans with at least a 60% permanent service-connected rating qualify for a larger amount instead: $18,200 at 60 to 79%, $27,300 at 80 to 99% and $36,400 at 100%. A veteran gets one exemption or the other, never both.

The Department of Taxation says the amount can go toward real property, the governmental services tax in a DMV registration or manufactured home tax, split among them, or be donated to the Gift Account for Veterans' Homes. It works in one county at a time.

Carson City's assessor puts the 100% amount at about $1,299 of property tax there. A surviving spouse who lived with a disabled veteran for the five years before death and has not remarried can keep the disabled veterans' exemption.

NRS 361.4723 grants a partial abatement by putting a 3% cap on the tax bill for an owner's primary residence: a house, townhouse, condo or manufactured home. Only one Nevada property can be named as your primary residence. Other property gets a cap of up to 8%.

In Clark County, recording any new ownership document removes the 3% abatement until you sign and return the assessor's postcard. Rentals that charge no more than the county's low-income rent limits can also qualify for the 3% cap.

Two small exemptions sit beside the veterans' ones. For 2026/2027, blind residents get $5,460 off assessed value, and an unremarried surviving spouse gets $1,820. Claims on a home are due by June 15 for the next fiscal year.

DSS calls Access Nevada the quickest way to apply for SNAP. The paper Application for Assistance can also be mailed, faxed or dropped at a Social Services Office. A household with little or no money may get benefits within 7 business days.

USDA approved Nevada's request to drop candy and sugar-sweetened drinks from what SNAP can buy, in a two-year test that begins February 1, 2028. Until then, the card buys the same foods it does today.

The 200% CATELIG income line and the birth-year deposit schedule fill our Nevada food stamps guide.