1. Providing a Safety Net

2. Cash Transfers In-Kind Benefits Medical Benefits Education
Providing a Safety Net
Cash Transfers
In-Kind Benefits
Medical Benefits
Education

3. Cash Transfers TANF (Temporary Assistance for the Needy Families)
Money that goes to the states to run their welfare programs

4. Cash Transfers Social Security
Collects payroll tax and gives out to the current recipients. Retired, disabilities, widows.

5. Cash Transfers Unemployment Insurance
Taxes from employers. Designed for 26 weeks.

6. Cash Transfers
Workers’ Compensation Taxes from employers to pay workers who are injured on job

7. In-Kind Benefits
Food Stamps SNAP - Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program Card to purchase food at grocery stores. Allocated amount on card

8. In-Kind Benefits
Subsidized Housing Money for low rent housing. Govt pays landlord

9. In-Kind Benefits
Legal Aid Advice given at no charge.

10. In-Kind Benefits
Lifeline (Obamaphone) Obama free cell phones ($9 /month) (16 million people)

11. Medical Benefits
Medicare Covers those over 65 and disabled

12. Medical Benefits
Medicaid Covers those poor that are unemployed or not covered by employers insurance

13. Medical Benefits
State Children’s Health Insurance Program For children that are unemployed

14. Medical Benefits
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Mandate requires all people to be insured. Poor (up to 133% of poverty line) will be subsidized. Businesses with 50 people MUST provide health care (penelties)

15. Education Benefits
Funds for students who need aid From Preschool to college Head Start – Preschool Pell Grants - College

16. Education Benefits
Programs for students with learning disabilities