Public Benefits Screening & Applications
What and Why
The Council has long been a proponent of strategies that address income support as a first step before asset building can be achieved. As a core of this strategy, our IAD work focuses on increasing the uptake rates of those eligible for public benefits programs including food stamps, Medi-CAL, general assistance, Earned Income Tax Credit and other income support programs. We are working with local and national organizations to make electronics benefits screening and enrollment tools available to our partners and communities.