justhereto
My friend is in Vegas. Her and her boyfriend got kicked out of the apartment by his brother. She's pregnant, 20 years old, and they can't find jobs. They're homeless and broke. She said welfare is taking a long time to process.
Anyone know any organizations/places for them?
Answer
Sorry to hear about your friend. Nevada 211 will have a listing of all services and what she would qualify for. They help with finding:
â¢Basic human needs resource
â¢Physical and mental health resources
â¢Financial stability
â¢Programs for children, youth and families
â¢Support for older Americans and persons with disabilities
â¢Volunteer opportunities and donations
â¢Support for community crisis or disaster recovery
http://www.nevada211.org/
Help Hope Home also has a referral list of resources in Clark County, NV which is where Las Vegas is located (Nevada 211 will list more in all areas of Nevada).
http://www.helphopehome.org/Community_Referral_List_072211.pdf
Southern Nevada Food Banks
http://www.threesquare.org/
Southern Nevada Free and Low Cost Health Care
http://www.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org/med-services/zip-code.php
Shelters and Emergency Housing
http://www.hud.gov/local/nv/homeless/shelters.cfm
http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/city.cgi?city=Las%20Vegas&state=NV
Pregnancy Care
http://babyurmine.org/for-pregnant-women/
http://wrmcsn.com/
http://www.lifecall.org/cpc/nevada.html
http://www.helpsonv.org/programs-family.php
It is very difficult to get a job in Las Vegas. The only place here that I know hires on a consistant basis is Jones Boys of Las Vegas, LLC. They are always in the employment section of the local newspaper. I've never tried them, but I think the position is calling people and getting them to renew newspaper subscriptions. From what I understand they pay cash daily. It's not the most glamourous position, but if they get hired it would tide them over until they got back on their feet and found something better. Group interviews are every Monday and Thursday. It's worth a shot.
Jones Boys of Las Vegas, LLC
Phone: (702) 732-4212
Fax: (702) 732-19202840
E. Flamingo Rd. Ste. F, Las Vegas, NV 89121
PS. If you contact me by email though yahoo I may be able to find additional ways to help your friend.
Sorry to hear about your friend. Nevada 211 will have a listing of all services and what she would qualify for. They help with finding:
â¢Basic human needs resource
â¢Physical and mental health resources
â¢Financial stability
â¢Programs for children, youth and families
â¢Support for older Americans and persons with disabilities
â¢Volunteer opportunities and donations
â¢Support for community crisis or disaster recovery
http://www.nevada211.org/
Help Hope Home also has a referral list of resources in Clark County, NV which is where Las Vegas is located (Nevada 211 will list more in all areas of Nevada).
http://www.helphopehome.org/Community_Referral_List_072211.pdf
Southern Nevada Food Banks
http://www.threesquare.org/
Southern Nevada Free and Low Cost Health Care
http://www.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org/med-services/zip-code.php
Shelters and Emergency Housing
http://www.hud.gov/local/nv/homeless/shelters.cfm
http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/city.cgi?city=Las%20Vegas&state=NV
Pregnancy Care
http://babyurmine.org/for-pregnant-women/
http://wrmcsn.com/
http://www.lifecall.org/cpc/nevada.html
http://www.helpsonv.org/programs-family.php
It is very difficult to get a job in Las Vegas. The only place here that I know hires on a consistant basis is Jones Boys of Las Vegas, LLC. They are always in the employment section of the local newspaper. I've never tried them, but I think the position is calling people and getting them to renew newspaper subscriptions. From what I understand they pay cash daily. It's not the most glamourous position, but if they get hired it would tide them over until they got back on their feet and found something better. Group interviews are every Monday and Thursday. It's worth a shot.
Jones Boys of Las Vegas, LLC
Phone: (702) 732-4212
Fax: (702) 732-19202840
E. Flamingo Rd. Ste. F, Las Vegas, NV 89121
PS. If you contact me by email though yahoo I may be able to find additional ways to help your friend.
I thought welfare was supposed to be temporary?
Nikki S
so why are so many people raising families on it for years upon years? How is that a hand up?
List of who should have welfare for foreseeable future: Elderly, disabled, injured, sick
List of who should not be on welfare: Lazy, Drug addicts, Kid factories, alcoholics, anyone who can walk, talk, and think with half a brain.
Answer
The 60 month time limits for TANF (cash assistance) is all smoke and mirrors - not real.
First of all almost half of all TANF cases have NO adult head of household, so NO time limits for them.
If the mother is mentally disabled, gets SSI, she is not on the grant - not a "TANF household member".
If the mother is a drug addict, she may have turned the children over to a grandparent or aunt, so that adult is not on the TANF grant.
Next, the 60 month TANF counter is not running if the TANF head of household is considered temporarily disabled - like a difficult pregnancy. This is very common. Women who work and become pregnant continue to work. Women who are on welfare and become pregnant get a doctor statement saying they can't work.
Post partum 12 week work exemption is automatic, no doctor statement. needed.
So for every pregnancy, 8 months pregnancy no counter, and 3 months post partum no counter, so 11 months of TANF, does not count toward the 60 month limit.
If you are overweight, or have other health issues, you may try to get SSI - for people who never worked. If your family doctor says you are disabled, and you pursue SSI, you are not work capable, no TANF counter running. It is not uncommon for 'disable' TANF parents to pursue SSI for 5 years, before finally giving up. so the five year limit got another five years added on.
So now you are probably thinking 'Gee, all these people must be on TANF (cash assistance), getting the free ride.'
WRONG!
There are so many other welfare programs, they don't need TANF.
A lot of them DO NOT WANT to inconvenience the absent parent(s) by filing for child support.
On my caseload of 400 I have dozens that would be eligible for TANF, that don't even apply.
Food stamps, WIC, energy assistance, housing assistance they are doing just fine without TANF.
~ ~ ~
Todayâs antipoverty safety net is dramatically different from the one in place two decades ago when welfare reform was enacted. Rather than a safety net primarily dependent on cash assistance programs, as is the common perception, the current system is highly reliant on social service programs funded by government and delivered through community-based nonprofits. Annual public and private expenditures for social service programs today exceed total federal outlays for cash assistance programs like welfare, food stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).|
https://ed.stanford.edu/events/out-reach-place-poverty-and-new-american-welfare-state
Cash Welfare Caseload. In December 2010, the number of families receiving TANF cash welfare was 1.9 million families, consisting of 4.7 million recipients, of which 3.5 million were children. The cash welfare caseload is very heterogeneous. The type of family historically thought of as the âtypicalâ cash welfare familyâone with an unemployed adult recipientâaccounted for less than half of all families on the rolls in FY2008. Additionally, 15% of cash welfare families had an employed adult, while almost half of all families had no adult recipient. Child-only families include those with disabled adults receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), adults who are nonparents (e.g., grandparents, aunts, uncles) caring for children, and families consisting of citizen children and ineligible noncitizen parents.
http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/RL32760.pdf
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Myth: Most welfare recipients are on benefits a short time.
Let me make that clearer.
At any one time 80% of any given caseload is chronic, repeat for one or more lifetimes.
80% of the money being spent at any one moment in time, is for the chronic, constantly needy, needy by choice, more than circumstances.
The other 20% comes and goes on a regular basis, in one door, out the other, never to be seen again.
At any moment in time, only 20% of the total, but over a long stretch (say five years), most of the ones helped were short timers, came and went, just like the myth says, most of the recipients on a short time,. . . . . . . but they only use 20% of the total funds available.
80% of the financial help available, goes to those âfew bad apples.â
That does not sound like a good taxpayer investment to me.
It seems to me the lion share of the money should be spent on the temporarily poor, the poor by circumstances, more than choice.
http://www.urban.org/publications/900288.html
The 60 month time limits for TANF (cash assistance) is all smoke and mirrors - not real.
First of all almost half of all TANF cases have NO adult head of household, so NO time limits for them.
If the mother is mentally disabled, gets SSI, she is not on the grant - not a "TANF household member".
If the mother is a drug addict, she may have turned the children over to a grandparent or aunt, so that adult is not on the TANF grant.
Next, the 60 month TANF counter is not running if the TANF head of household is considered temporarily disabled - like a difficult pregnancy. This is very common. Women who work and become pregnant continue to work. Women who are on welfare and become pregnant get a doctor statement saying they can't work.
Post partum 12 week work exemption is automatic, no doctor statement. needed.
So for every pregnancy, 8 months pregnancy no counter, and 3 months post partum no counter, so 11 months of TANF, does not count toward the 60 month limit.
If you are overweight, or have other health issues, you may try to get SSI - for people who never worked. If your family doctor says you are disabled, and you pursue SSI, you are not work capable, no TANF counter running. It is not uncommon for 'disable' TANF parents to pursue SSI for 5 years, before finally giving up. so the five year limit got another five years added on.
So now you are probably thinking 'Gee, all these people must be on TANF (cash assistance), getting the free ride.'
WRONG!
There are so many other welfare programs, they don't need TANF.
A lot of them DO NOT WANT to inconvenience the absent parent(s) by filing for child support.
On my caseload of 400 I have dozens that would be eligible for TANF, that don't even apply.
Food stamps, WIC, energy assistance, housing assistance they are doing just fine without TANF.
~ ~ ~
Todayâs antipoverty safety net is dramatically different from the one in place two decades ago when welfare reform was enacted. Rather than a safety net primarily dependent on cash assistance programs, as is the common perception, the current system is highly reliant on social service programs funded by government and delivered through community-based nonprofits. Annual public and private expenditures for social service programs today exceed total federal outlays for cash assistance programs like welfare, food stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).|
https://ed.stanford.edu/events/out-reach-place-poverty-and-new-american-welfare-state
Cash Welfare Caseload. In December 2010, the number of families receiving TANF cash welfare was 1.9 million families, consisting of 4.7 million recipients, of which 3.5 million were children. The cash welfare caseload is very heterogeneous. The type of family historically thought of as the âtypicalâ cash welfare familyâone with an unemployed adult recipientâaccounted for less than half of all families on the rolls in FY2008. Additionally, 15% of cash welfare families had an employed adult, while almost half of all families had no adult recipient. Child-only families include those with disabled adults receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), adults who are nonparents (e.g., grandparents, aunts, uncles) caring for children, and families consisting of citizen children and ineligible noncitizen parents.
http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/RL32760.pdf
~~~~~
~
Myth: Most welfare recipients are on benefits a short time.
Let me make that clearer.
At any one time 80% of any given caseload is chronic, repeat for one or more lifetimes.
80% of the money being spent at any one moment in time, is for the chronic, constantly needy, needy by choice, more than circumstances.
The other 20% comes and goes on a regular basis, in one door, out the other, never to be seen again.
At any moment in time, only 20% of the total, but over a long stretch (say five years), most of the ones helped were short timers, came and went, just like the myth says, most of the recipients on a short time,. . . . . . . but they only use 20% of the total funds available.
80% of the financial help available, goes to those âfew bad apples.â
That does not sound like a good taxpayer investment to me.
It seems to me the lion share of the money should be spent on the temporarily poor, the poor by circumstances, more than choice.
http://www.urban.org/publications/900288.html
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