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Connects people with community resources to help meet basic needs such as food and housing.
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Near Homeless
Community Support Services
Navigating the System
Housing
Help Find Housing
Homeless
Food Benefits
Government Food Benefits
A permanent, nationwide Summer EBT program to support children who lose access to free and reduced-price school meals during the summer months. Provides $120 in food benefits to each eligible child. For updates and application information, sign up for text-based alerts at textsunbucks.dshs.wa.gov.
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Food
Teens
Children
Help Pay for Food
Government Food Benefits
Food Benefits
A point of entry to local, state and federal benefits and services for veterans. Services include burial assistance, compensation and pension assistance, employment assistance, health services, housing assistance, legal assistance, social service programs, temporary financial assistance, and transportation.
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Financial Assistance
Veterans
Work
Employment
Housing
Legal
Navigating the System
Health
Active Duty
National Guard
Armed Forces
Burial & Funeral Help
Transportation
Government Benefits
Emergency Payments
Provides housing opportunities for Nooksack Tribal community. Services include Low Rent Program, programs leading to eventual homeownership, and waiting list of Tribal members in need of affordable housing. Nooksack Housing also helps Tribal members connect with other state and federal housing services, including the Section 184 Home Loan Program, Down Payment Assistance, as well as other administrative assistance.
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Help Pay for Housing
Long-Term Housing
Public Housing
Housing Vouchers
Housing
Provides benefits to legal immigrants who are not eligible for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), called Basic Food in Washington, solely because of immigration status. Households that include a person eligible for FAP receive the same amount of food benefits they would receive for this person if they were eligible for SNAP.
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Food
Food Benefits
Government Food Benefits
Immigrants
Health care coverage and Cash Assistance Program for individuals who are age 65 and over, blind or disabled who meet income and resource requirements. Cash assistance and a referral to the Housing and Essential Needs program available to eligible individuals who are determined likely to meet Supplemental Security Income disability criteria based on an impairment(s) expected to last at least 12 consecutive months. This program provides maximum monthly cash grant of $450 for a single individual or $570 for a married couple.
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Government Benefits
Disability
Disability Benefits
A state-funded program that provides women who are low-income and pregnant and who are not eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or State Family Assistance with cash assistance and a referral to the HEN program.
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Pregnant
Money
Financial Assistance
Government Benefits
Provides general information and resources for the East Whatcom County community. Resources include computer and phone access, notary, hygiene and health supplies, clothes, books, toys, household items, specialized intake support such as SNAP benefits, and more. Diapers available depending on supply, call ahead to check.
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Food Benefits
Navigating the System
Community Support Services
Government Food Benefits
Computer or Internet Access
Goods
Home Goods
Clothing
Toys & Gifts
Books
Personal Care Items
Notary
Diapers & Formula
WIC is a supplemental food and nutrition/breastfeeding education program that helps pregnant women, new mothers and young children eat well, learn about nutrition and breastfeeding, and stay healthy.
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Pregnant
Families
Food Benefits
Health
Nutrition
Children
Mothers
Food
Help Pay for Food
Nutrition Education
Government Food Benefits
Provides monthly payments to adults and children with a disability or blindness who have income and resources below specific financial limits. SSI payments are also made to people age 65 and older without disabilities who meet the financial qualifications.
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Income
Low-Income
Money
Government Benefits
Disability Benefits
Disability
Provides information and direct application support that can help families and individuals obtain and maintain SNAP food benefits.
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Food
Food Benefits
Government Food Benefits
Additional housing or utility cash benefit for individuals and families already in the TANF, SFA, or RCA programs. Program intent is to keep people in housing, prevent utility disconnection, or get clients into housing.
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Help Pay for Housing
Government Benefits
Financial Assistance
Help Pay for Utilities
WIC is a supplemental food and nutrition/breastfeeding education program that helps pregnant women, new mothers and young children eat well, learn about nutrition and breastfeeding, and stay healthy.
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Food Benefits
Nutrition Education
Government Food Benefits
Pregnant
Mothers
Children
Families
Health
Food
Nutrition
Help Pay for Food
Benefits paid to widows, widowers, and dependents of eligible workers. This benefit is particularly important for young families with children. You and your family could be eligible for benefits based on the earnings of a worker who died. The deceased person must have worked long enough to qualify for benefits.
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Income
Money
Government Benefits
Survivors
A point of entry to local, state and federal benefits and services for veterans. Services include burial assistance, compensation and pension assistance, employment assistance, health services, housing assistance, legal assistance, social service programs, temporary financial assistance, and transportation.
Categories
Financial Assistance
Veterans
Work
Employment
Housing
Legal
Navigating the System
Health
Active Duty
National Guard
Armed Forces
Burial & Funeral Help
Transportation
Government Benefits
Emergency Payments
Serving families, seniors, and those with disabilities. Units are offered based on availability. Households generally pay 30% of their income for rent. Each property has its own application process; visit the Applicant Portals page to begin the application process.
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Public Housing
Housing Vouchers
Long-Term Housing
Housing
Help Pay for Housing
Families
Seniors
Disability
Low-Income
Provides access to essential needs items and potential rental assistance for low-income individuals who are unable to work for at least 90 days due to a physical and/or mental incapacity.
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Help Pay for Housing
Government Benefits
Money
Disability Benefits
WIC is a supplemental food and nutrition/breastfeeding education program that helps pregnant women, new mothers and young children eat well, learn about nutrition and breastfeeding, and stay healthy.
Categories
Mothers
Pregnant
Government Food Benefits
Food Benefits
Food
Help Pay for Food
Nutrition Education
Children
Nutrition
Health
Families
WIC is a supplemental food and nutrition/breastfeeding education program that helps pregnant women, new mothers and young children eat well, learn about nutrition and breastfeeding, and stay healthy.
Categories
Pregnant
Families
Food Benefits
Health
Nutrition
Children
Mothers
Food
Help Pay for Food
Nutrition Education
Government Food Benefits
Provides assistance to people who meet requirements for disability. SSDI pays benefits to you and certain family members if you are “insured.” This means that you worked long enough – and recently enough - and paid Social Security taxes on your earnings.
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Income
Money
Disability Benefits
Government Benefits
Disability
Helps eligible refugees and other humanitarian immigrants by providing cash assistance for up to eight months from their arrival date in the United States (or from the date of their immigration status for asylees or victims of trafficking). RCA is for eligible people who do not have minor children.
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Human Trafficking Survivors
Refugees
Financial Assistance
Money
Government Benefits
Reduced cost for utilities provided by the city of Blaine, including electric, water, sewage, and storm water. Available for low-income seniors or disabled adults.
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Seniors
Low-Income
Disability
Help Pay for Utilities
Disability Benefits
Bellingham Housing Authority owns and manages properties that are rented to eligible households at a subsidized rate. This program can serve families, seniors, and those with disabilities. Households pay 30% of their income for rent.
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Public Housing
Housing Vouchers
Housing
Long-Term Housing
Help Pay for Housing
Low-Income
Seniors
Families
Disability
Program offering reduction in property taxes for eligible residents. Applicants must be seniors or disabled adults, own and occupy the property in question, and meet disposable income limits.
Categories
Disability
Disability Benefits
Help Pay for Utilities
Seniors
Help Pay for Housing
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, called Basic Food in Washington, helps people with low incomes make ends meet by providing monthly benefits to buy food.
Categories
Food
Help Pay for Food
Government Food Benefits
Food Benefits