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.

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