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
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.
Food Stamps (now called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP) (English, Spanish), food benefit for low-income Americans, 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--2010 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.