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Moving to the State
Welcome to the Bluegrass State! Find links to what you and your family need to know concerning employment, taxes, schools, and more.
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Resources
- Automobiles
Access the links you will need to get your drivers license or register your vehicle.
- County Information
View county-by-county statistics.
- Counties and County Seats
Provided here is an alphabetical listing of Kentucky's counties with their respective county seats and their local Chambers of Commerce.
- National Association of Counties
NACo collects information on counties, such as county officials, courthouse addresses, county seats, cities in a county.
- Employment
Get information about wages and the labor market in Kentucky.
- Families
Access valuable information to aid and protect your family.
- Active Charities in Kentucky
Current registered fund raising promotions in the Commonwealth
- Adoption Benefits for State Employees
State employees can be reimbursed for a portion of the direct costs incurred in the adoption process.
- Adoption Information
The Adoption Services Branch is responsible for program oversight and planning in the area of adoption services. Visit this website to learn more about adopting a child in the Commonwealth.
- Charities and Donations
Active Charitable Campaigns, Questions for Solicitors, Deceptive Practices, Donors Rights, Other Consumer Resources
- Child Care Information and Resources
The Division of Child Care administers the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) to help Kentucky’s low-income families find and afford quality child care. The division also provides information regarding professional development opportunities for day care staff and other child care professionals. Visit this website to learn more.
- Child ID Program
This program will work closely with the Kentucky State Police “Missing Persons Clearinghouse” and the Amber Alert System in the event of a missing child.
- Child Support Enforcement
Information and support for parents regarding child support obligations
- Consumer Protection Division
Protecting Kentucky's consumers and businesses
- Food Stamp Information and FAQs
The Food Stamp Program helps people with little or no money buy food for healthy meals at participating stores. Food stamp benefits increase the household's food buying power when they are added to the household's money. Visit this website to learn more.
- Health and Family Services Hotlines
Cabinet for Health Services toll-free phone numbers
- Health and Family Services, Cabinet for
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services provides human services for the citizens of Kentucky. The Cabinet’s services include protection for vulnerable children and adults, child abuse investigations, foster care, adoptions, child support collections, cash assistance, food stamps, disability determinations, and more.
- Help for Families and Consumers
"No Call List," Utility Rates, Consumer Protection, Identity Theft, Charitable Donations, and "Most Wanted" Parents
- Help with Food Stamps
Applications, contact number, and other helpful information about Food Stamps.
- Identity Theft
Identity theft occurs when someone steals your identity by using personal data about you such as your name, social security number, date of birth and financial information.
- Telemarketing "No Call" List
Sign up online for the Attorney General's Telemarketing "No Call" List or file a complaint
- Utility Rate Intervention
The Office of Rate Intervention serves as a watchdog for consumers in matters relating to health insurance, natural gas, water, sewer, electric and telephone rates.
- Government
Find the legislators who can help you in this easy to use list.
- Education Cabinet
The Kentucky Education Cabinet is charged with the mission of preserving Kentucky's heritage, preparing for its future and promoting a statewide culture of lifelong learning.
- Find a State Legislator
Find your state Senator or Representative either alphabetically, by district or by county with the Kentucky Legislative Who's Who.
- State Holidays
In accordance with KRS 18A.190, KRS 2.190, and KRS 2.110, State offices shall be closed and state employees shall be given a holiday on the dates listed here.
- Housing
Get help finding your dream home.
- Homeownership Opportunities
The Kentucky Housing Corporation provides the information you need to purchase your first home.
- Kentucky Realtors
Let the Kentucky Association of Realtors help you find a Realtor in your area.
- Rental Assistance Opportunities
There are several different rental assistance programs available through KHC. These programs offer very low-income residents an opportunity to find housing at an affordable price.
- Retirement Communities
Kentucky is an ideal place to call home for many retirees. All across the Commonwealth, communities large and small offer a diverse choice of recreation, entertainment, service and leisure living amenities. Visit this website to learn more about Certified Retirement Communities.
- Kentucky Facts
Quickly access Kentucky census information.
- Living
- Hunting and Fishing Licenses
You may purchase Hunting Licenses, Fishing Licenses, and various permits, for yourself or as a gift for others, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You can make a purchase using a Visa, MasterCard, or Discover card.
- Retirement Communities
Kentucky is an ideal place to call home for many retirees. All across the Commonwealth, communities large and small offer a diverse choice of recreation, entertainment, service and leisure living amenities. Visit this website to learn more about Certified Retirement Communities.
- Retirement Communities
Kentucky is an ideal place to call home for many retirees. All across the Commonwealth, communities large and small offer a diverse choice of recreation, entertainment, service and leisure living amenities. Visit this website to learn more about Certified Retirement Communities.
- Schools
Find schools in your area; access the information you need to enroll your child.
- Taxes
Learn about Kentucky taxes and get your forms online.
- Utilities
View links to some of Kentucky's many utility companies.
- Electric
- American Electric Power
AEP is the top power generator in the U.S. and a leading marketer of power, natural gas, and related products & services.
- Louisville Gas and Electric Company
One of the U.S.'s lowest-cost energy providers and an industry innovator, we operate in domestic and international markets from our U.S. headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Gas
- Atmos Energy Corporation
Atmos Energy Corporation is one of America's largest pure natural gas distributors. They are dedicated to efficient operations, low costs and excellent customer service.
- Columbia Gas of Kentucky
Columbia Gas of Kentucky serves over 140,000 users across the Bluegrass and is dedicated to bringing you safe, reliable, economical and convenient natural gas service
- Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc.
Delta will be a premier provider of natural gas services while having a significant positive impact on its customers, employees and shareholders.
- Equitable Gas Company
Equitable Gas Company provides natural gas distribution services to over 260,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers.
- Louisville Gas and Electric Company
One of the U.S.'s lowest-cost energy providers and an industry innovator, we operate in domestic and international markets from our U.S. headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Heating Assistance Program
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a federally-funded program to help eligible low income households meet their home heating and/or cooling needs.
- Rural Electric Cooperative Corporations
- Big Rivers Electric Corporation
Big Rivers is an electric generation and transmission cooperative supplying the wholesale power needs of its three member cooperatives and marketing power to non-member utilities and power markets.
- Blue Grass Energy
Blue Grass Energy allows you to review and pay your bill online, access your billing history, and chart your energy use.
- Clark Energy Cooperative
Clark Energy Cooperative, based in Winchester Kentucky, provides electric energy service to 24,000 sites. Clark Energy’s service territory encompasses eleven counties located in east central Kentucky near the foothill section of the Appalachian Mountains.
- East Kentucky Power Cooperative
The member cooperatives set up EKPC as a not-for-profit generation and transmission utility with headquarters in Winchester, Ky.
- Grayson Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation
Our service area covers a total of 6 counties and is about 60 miles from top to bottom.
- Intercounty Energy Cooperative
Since 1937, Inter-County Energy has taken pride in
providing our membership with quality electric
service.
- Jackson Energy Cooperative
Established in Jackson County in 1938, Jackson Energy Cooperative is a regional utility with headquarters in McKee, Kentucky, serving 49,000 members in 15 southeastern Kentucky counties.
- Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation
Meade County RECC serves over 25,000 members in a six-county area in Central Kentucky (Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Meade and Ohio Counties).
- Owen Electric Cooperative
Owen Electric Cooperative is one of the nation's largest consumer-owned electric distribution cooperatives, serving approximately 151,000 Kentuckians in the counties of Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen, Pendleton and Scott.
- Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation
Your cooperative was formed in 1937 to bring central station electricity to the rural homes of the Pennyrile area.
- Salt River Electric
Welcome to Salt River Electric, a member-owned electric utility, based in Bardstown, Kentucky, serving 40,000 members, in ten counties across central Kentucky.
- Shelby Energy Cooperative, Inc.
Shelby Energy Cooperative, Inc. is a nonprofit, customer-owned electric distribution cooperative headquartered in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
- South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation
South Kentucky Rural Electric serves more than 56,381 members in parts of thirteen counties which include Pulaski, Russell, Wayne, Clinton, McCreary, Casey, Lincoln, Adair, Rockcastle, Cumberland, and Laurel counties in Kentucky, and Pickett and Scott counties in Tennessee.
- Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Cooperation
Warren RECC serves most of eight counties in the Commonwealth of Kentucky with over 5,800 miles of transmission and distribution electrical lines and maintains 32 electrical substations.
- West Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Cooperation
West Kentucky RECC was organized to provide the best possible service to all members at the lowest possible cost consistent with sound business principles.
- Telephone
- Water
- Voting
Find out what you need to know to participate in the democratic process.
- Election Finance, Registry of
The Kentucky Registry of Election Finance administers and enforces the laws regulating the financing of state and local elections in Kentucky.
- Legislative Districts
Links to maps created by House Bill 1 of the 2002 General Assembly
- Register to Vote
Find out what you need to know about registering to vote in Kentucky.
- Voter Information Guide
Find general information about voting in Kentucky, how to register, voting procedures, absentee ballots and more.
- Voting and Elections
Election Information, Election Rules, voting in Kentucky, Polling Places
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