Public Benefits Overview

2021

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Everyone who works with low income people needs basic knowledge of public benefits law. Economic security issues often are intertwined with client problems in every major practice area—civil rights, consumer, disability, education, employment/labor, family, health, housing, and immigration law. Behind most evictions, debt collections, or dissolutions, for example, lurk important benefits issues. Whatever your specialty, high quality service and ethical obligations demand familiarity with the issues covered in this learning program.

Public Benefits Overview presents the key eligibility requirements of major public benefit programs for low income people by using a unique identifying issue tool.  It focuses on:
•  CalWORKs
•  CalFresh
•  General Assistance/Relief
•  Medi-Cal
•  Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

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Module One
Pasadena
San Francisco