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HELP WITH CRISIS PREGNANCY & BEYOND: FINANCES & INCOME: GOVERNMENT BENEFITS

Child Support/Child Maintenance
Government Benefits
Financial Literacy
Living on a Small Income
Microcredit, Small Business, & Working at Home
Living Wage, Paid Parental Leave, & Other Human Rights

Government Benefits

Note: You may also want to look also at our page on Mother and Child Health Care Access by Country to learn about government health benefits.

Global/International: Social Security Programs Throughout the World. Profiles of 170+ countries in Europe, Asia & the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas. Describes maternity benefits, among many others.

Australia: Benefits, Payments, & Services and Family Assistance & Relationship Services, including the Child Care Benefit

Bahrain: Social Assistance. From the Ministry of Social Development.

Brazil: Bolsa-Familia. (Portuguese.)

Canada: CanadaBenefits/PrestationsduCanada and Child and Family Benefits . (English, French.)

European Union (EU) & European Economic Area (EEA): Social Protection in the EU Member States and the European Economic Area. (English, French, German.) Along with other crucial social benefits, covers maternity, family allowance, and health care benefits in these countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Finland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, and United Kingdom.

Estonia: Ministry of Social Affairs. (Estonian, English, Russian.)

Guam: Division of Public Welfare.

Ireland: Families and Children. Family benefits, including the Child and Maternity Benefits and the One Parent Family Payment. From the national Department of Social and Family Affairs/An Roinn Gnothai Soisialacha agus Teaghlaigh.

Jamaica: Free Health Care Policy for Children Under 18.

Korea (Republic): Ministry of Health and Welfare. (English, Korean.) Click on "Major Policy," then "Social Welfare Services."

Lithuania: SODRA, the State Social Insurance Board. (Lithuanian, English, Russian.)

Macedonia: Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. (Macedonian, Albanian, English.)

Malta: Family Services. (English, Maltese). Benefits and services from the national Ministry for the Family & Social Solidarity, including the Maternity Benefit, Child Allowance, Disabled Child Allowance, Milk Grant, and Social Assistance, including Social Assistance for Single Parents.

Mauritius: Citizen Sub-Portal, Government of Mauritius. Click on "Social Security & Welfare."

UK: Department for Work and Pensions: Benefits. (English; to find materials in Welsh, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Punjabi, Somali, Urdu, or Vietnamese, please click here.) Includes Statutory Maternity Pay.

United States: GovBenefits.gov: Your Benefits Connection. (English, Spanish.) Federal government website with information on 1000+ benefit programs. See also:

Food Stamp Program (English, Spanish; some basic materials also in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, French, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Hindi, Hmong, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Yoruba) and WIC, the Women, Infants, Children Program, (English, Spanish), which provides "supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk."

Medicaid and S-CHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Government health insurance for low-income Americans.

Rental Help. (English, Spanish.)

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).

Campaign for Home Energy Assistance [US]. LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Can ease the high cost of heating bills.

Social Security [US] Online Via Multilingual Gateway. (English, Spanish, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi [Persian], French, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, Vietnamese.) Includes disability assistance programs.

Tribal Governments [US]. Hyperlinks to official websites of the USA's multitude of Native Nations. These websites often describe tribal government benefits that may be available for you and/or your child[ren] if affiliated with the tribe.

Office of Refugee Resettlement [US]. (Mostly English; some material, especially for asylees, in additional languages.)

Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents--2008 Booklet . (English, Spanish.) From the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The Nonviolent Choice Directory doesn't believe in war--and certainly not the war in Iraq!--but we believe that military veterans and their families deserve every single penny they get--and that they deserve more.