Alabama Family Assistance

The Family Assistance Program provides financial assistance to meet basic needs for families with a dependent child under age 18 or age 19 if s/he is a full time student in a secondary school or in the equivalent level of vocational or technical...read more

Alaska Temporary Assistance Program

The Alaska Temporary Assistance Program (ATAP) provides cash assistance and work services to low-income families with children to help them with basic needs while they work toward becoming self-sufficient. This program is provided under the Federal...read more

Arizona Cash Assistance Program

The Arizona Cash Assistance Program provides temporary cash assistance and supportive services to children, individuals, and their families. The Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) EDGE System is used to issue cash assistance payments. Participants...read more

Assistance for Victims of Trafficking

Adult victims of severe forms of trafficking who have been certified by the US Department of Health and Human Services are eligible for benefits and services to the same extent as refugees, provided they meet other program eligibility requirements....read more

Assistance in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam

The Adult Programs in the Territories provide monthly cash payments eligible to financially deprived aged, blind and disabled persons in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. These payments help with food, shelter, clothing, and other daily...read more

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Financial Assistance and Social Services

The BIA Financial Assistance and Social Services program provides assistance to federally recognized American Indians and Alaska Native tribe members in the following ways:General Assistance: Cash assistance to meet essential needs of food,...read more

California CalWORKs (TANF)

CalWORKs is a welfare program that gives cash aid and services to eligible needy California families. The program serves all 58 counties in the state and is operated locally by county welfare departments. If a family has little or no cash and needs...read more

Centers for Independent Living for Individuals with Disabilities

The Centers for Independent Living (CIL) program provides grants for consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private nonprofit agencies that are designed and operated within a local community by individuals with...read more

Colorado Works

The Colorado Works Program serves low-income families with children by providing income assistance and supportive services to help participants become and remain self-sufficient. Colorado Works is the new program that replaced the AFDC and JOBS...read more

Connecticut Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provides services and benefits to needy families. TANF was designed to give states flexibility to operate programs that serve one of the following purposes: Provide assistance to needy families so...read more