Public Benefits Content Topic Results

This guide provides brief language of state laws and legislative proposals explicitly covering unemployment insurance eligibility in situations involving domestic violence. Live links are provided to the alphabetized laws and bills from the document.

This analysis explains: the structure and goals of the unemployment insurance system; who is eligible for unemployment insurance; what kind of benefits are available; what additional benefits are available during economic downturns; how unemployment insurance is funded and current solvency issues; and how unemployment insurance affects the economy.

This toolkit provides advocates with an overview of services and benefits available at both the federal and local levels for immigrant survivors of sexual and domestic violence. It also gives the eligibility requirements for receiving certain benefits and offers suggestions for best practices in working with immigrant survivors.

This toolkit was designed to assist nonprofit human service organizations help their low-wage, frontline employees access work supports. The work supports to which this toolkit refers are government programs that help low-income working families make ends meet by providing financial or in-kind assistance.

The public benefits flow charts pertain to VAWA self-petition and cancellation, U-Visas, T-Visas, and Special Juvenile Immigrant Status (SIJS).

This Manual focuses on legal rights and options for immigrant survivors of domestic violence including intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse and abuse perpetrated by other family members or persons that are covered by your state's protection order statute. Breaking Barriers is a comprehensive tool that provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of domestic and family violence.

This report details both federal laws and state laws specifically indicating that domestic violence victims are protected from housing discrimination.

This webinar from the Office on Violence Against Women, NIWAP, Legal Momentum, and CALCASA covers public benefits that are available to immigrant survivors of violence.

This report examines several options Congress could take to provide states with more flexibility while strengthening the TANF work provisions and making them more effective. Detailed background on the TANF work participation rate is also provided.

This brochure provides a broad overview of the legal rights of immigrant victims of domestic violence.

This booklet provides information on the full range of immigration relief options created for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. For domestic violence victims a discussion of domestic violence protection orders and how they can help immigrant victims is included.

This update provides tips for AFI grantees on the effect of the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, American Opportunity Credit, and the Making Work Pay Credit on eligibility for participating in an AFI-funded IDA project and depositing the credits as IDA savings.