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How To Apply For Home Energy Assistance
The Home Energy Assistance (HEA) program offers assistance to low-income families
with the payment of heating cost during winter months as well as help with the payment
of cooling costs during summer months to individuals with a medically certified
condition. Public assistance recipient automatically receive consideration for payment.
Eligibility for low-income residents which includes emergency assistance for the
purchase of fuel, completion of furnace repairs, correction of infiltration of cold air
and other services is determined by:
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How To Apply For Child Suport and Paternity Progam Services
The Office of Child Support and Enforcement (OCSE) has the
responsibility to locate absent parents, establish paternity for
children born out-of-wedlock, establish court orders for payment
of child support.
How To Apply For Supportive Assistance To Individuals and Families
The Supportive Assistance to Individuals and Families
Program (SAIF) is a program for individuals and families
who have received the maximum 60 months of
public assistance. As long as you apply and adhere to
program rules, your case will still receive cash benefits
plus support services such as child care and transportation
for up to 24 months.
How To Apply For Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment
Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) is a program
which provides free medical and dental check-ups for Medicaid eligible
recipients under 21 years of age. Problems can be identified early and can
be treated through regular check-ups before they become more serious.
These services are free to recipients. The only exception is that participants
in the Medically Needy Program are not eligible for free EPSDT
services.
How To Apply For- Kinship Care Subsidy Program
The Kinship Care Subsidy Program provides monthly
childcare subsidies to certain low-income individuals raising
children whose parents are unwilling or unable to do
so. Usually blood or marriage relates such caregivers to
the children , but such a relationship is not necessary if
the court awards guardianship to the caregiver.
How To Apply For New Jersey Family Care and Kid Care
New
Jersey Care is a program which provides full Medicaid services to
pregnant women, children born after September 30, 1983 and to aged
(65 or over), blind or disabled individuals who are financially
needy.
Family
Care is an affordable health coverage. Quality Care. NJ Kid Care
is now NJ Family Care. That means uninsured kids, parents, couples,
and even single adults can all enjoy affordable health coverage-like
the kind that already covers thousands of New Jersey children. NJ
Family Care is not a welfare program-it's low cost health coverage
through a variety of recognize Health Maintenance Organizations
(HMOs).
The purpose of the program is to provide these services in such
a manner as to allow the individual to remain in his/her home rather
than having to enter an institution (hospital or nursing home).
How To Apply For Refugee Resettement Program
The
Refugee Resettlement Program provides financial assistance, Medicaid
and social services to individuals and/or families who have been
designated refugees by the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS) because they fled from and cannot return to their place of
national origin because of fear of persecution on account of race,
religion or political opinion.
How To Apply For Supplemental Security Income
The
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program provides financial assistance
and Medicaid to aged (65 or over) blind or disabled individuals
who are financially needy. This program is administered by the Social
Security Administration.
How To Apply For Medicaid Special Program
Medicaid
Only is a program which provides full Medicaid services to aged
(65 or over), blind or disabled individuals who are financially
needy. These individuals may reside in a nursing home, a boarding
home, their own home, or the home of another person.
Medicaid
Special Program
Medicaid
Special is a program which provides full Medicaid services to individuals
under 21 who are financially needy.
How To Apply For Medical Transportation Services
Medical
Transportation Services is a program which providers for payment
of reasonable and appropriate transportation costs for Medicaid
recipients to obtain legitimate and required medical services only
for those services covered by Medicaid.
How To Apply For Medically Needy Program
Medically
Needy is a program which provides limited Medicaid services to pregnant
women, children under 21 and to aged (65 or over), blind or disabled
individuals who are financially needy.
Model
Waiver Program
The
Model Waiver Program provides full Medicaid and case management
services to individuals (adults and children) who have high medical
costs as a result of serious illness. The purpose of the program
is to provide these services in such a manner as to allow the individuals
to remain in his/her home rather than having to enter an institution
(hospital or nursing home).
AIDS
Community Care Alternatives Program
The
AIDS Community Care Alternatives Program (ACCAP) provides full Medicaid
services and certain free in-home care services to individuals diagnosed
as having Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and who are
in need of such care as a result of serious illness. The purpose
of the program is to provide these services in such a manner as
to allow the individual to remain in his/her home rather than having
to enter an institution (hospital or nursing home). An applicant
must be assessed to need a nursing home level of care.
Boarding
Home Services Program
The
Boarding Home Services Program provides services to residents of
boarding homes in Essex County which are intended to ensure their
health and safety in the community. Some of the services provided
include outreach, information and referral, case management and
protective services to prevent possible abuse, neglect or exploitation.
How To Apply For Child Suport and Paternity Progam Services
The
Child Support and Paternity Program (CSP) has the responsibility
to locate absent parents, establish paternity for children born
out-of-wedlock, establish court orders for payment of child support
and collect these monies for the support of the children.
Community
Care Program for the Elderly & Disabled
The
Community Care Program for the Elderly and Disabled (CCPED) provides
certain free in-home care services to aged (65 or over), blind or
disabled individuals who are in need of such care as a result of
serious illness.
How To Apply For Medicare Beneficiary - English
How To Apply For Medicare Beneficios - Spanish
The Specified Low Income Medicare Beneficiary
Program (SLMB) and SLMB Q1-1 programs
pay Medicare Part B premiums for individuals
who are not eligible for New Jersey
Care and Special Medicaid Programs, because
their incomes are too high.
How To Apply For- Drug and Alcohol Abuse
The
Substance Abuse Initiative program is a free service that is provided
through Work First NJ (WFNJ) to help individuals get treatment for
alcohol or drug abuse problems.
Early
Periodic Screening, Diagnosis & Treatment
Early
Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) is a program
which provides free medical and dental check-ups for Medicaid eligible
recipients under 21 years of age. By regular check-ups problems
can be identified early and be treated before they become more serious.
These services are free to recipients. The only exception is that
recipients of Medically Needy are not eligible for free EPSDT services.
An
enhanced aspect of EPSDT, called Health Start, provides case man-
agement, follow-up and support services for EPSDT children under
2 years of age and pregnant women. Certified Health Start providers
can determine a pregnant woman to be presumptively eligible and
immediately provide free services. The woman then has 45 days to
file application for Medicaid.
How To Apply For Emergency Assistance Program
Emergency
Assistance is a program which provides financial assistance and
social services to eligible WFNJ/TANF/GA and SSI eligibles.
How To Apply For- Family Violence Program
The
domestic violence assistance program provides financial assistance,
Medicaid and counseling services in a safe environment to eligible
WFNJ/TANF/GA families and/or SSI individuals who are the victims
of domestic violence.
How To Apply For Food Stamp - English
How To Apply For Food Stamp - Spanish
Food
Stamps is a program which provides benefits to low income families
to increase their food purchasing power. Family First cards used
in stores to purchase food (EBT).
How To Apply For- Funeral and Burial Expenses
Payment
toward the cost of funeral and burial or cremation expenses may
be made by the WFNJ Agency for certain eligible individuals.
How To Apply For General Assistance
WFNJ/GA
is a program for single adults and couples without dependent children.
This program is designed to give you the assistance you need to
get off Welfare and improve the quality of life.
Traumatic
Brain Injury
The
Traumatic Brain Injury Program provides full Medicaid services and
certain free in-home care services to individuals 18 to 65 years
of age who are in need of such care as a result of serious brain
injury. The purpose of the program is to provide these services
in such a manner as to allow the individual to remain in his/her
home rather than having to enter an institution (hospital or nursing
home).
How To Apply For Work First New Jersey Temporary Assistance For Needy Families
WFNJ
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families is a program which provides
financial assistance, Medicaid and social services to low income
families with children who are without parental support or care
due to the death, absence, or physical or mental incapacity of one
or both parents. Families with both parents who have very low or
no income and resources may also receive assistance. |
