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Food Support recipients may be required to participate in the Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) program. Each participant is first provided with an orientation to program services followed by an individual assessment and completion of an employability plan. Depending on the individual's needs, they may take part in job seeking training, group and individual job search activities, remedial literacy or other adult basic education, English language training, short-term vocational or technical training, job placement, and assistance with transportation or other supportive services. Participants who fail to comply with program requirements are subject to sanctions and could temporarily or permanently lose food benefits.
Food Support recipients may be required to participate in the Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) program. Each participant is first provided with an orientation to program services followed by an individual assessment and completion of an employability plan. Depending on the individual's needs, they may take part in job seeking training, group and individual job search activities, remedial literacy or other adult basic education, English language training, short-term vocational or technical training, job placement, and assistance with transportation or other supportive services. Participants who fail to comply with program requirements are subject to sanctions and could temporarily or permanently lose food benefits.
Categories
Job Readiness
Food Stamps/SNAP Recipients
Job Search/Placement
Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:
- Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples.
Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:
- Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples.
Categories
Low Income
Older Adults
Medicare Savings Programs
Health Insurance Premium Assistance
Medicare Beneficiaries
Helps people return to the workplace due to an injury or illness that is affecting their ability to work.
A RETAIN Return to Work Case Manager is a member of the person's health care team and will work with them and their employer and health care provider to:
- Help the person and their employer plan for their return to work
- Identify safe work tasks based on their health care provider's recommendations
- Update their health care provider between appointments on their return to work progress
- Communicate with the person, their employer, and health care provider to make adjustments in their return to work plan
- Answer the person's questions and assist them
Helps people return to the workplace due to an injury or illness that is affecting their ability to work.
A RETAIN Return to Work Case Manager is a member of the person's health care team and will work with them and their employer and health care provider to:
- Help the person and their employer plan for their return to work
- Identify safe work tasks based on their health care provider's recommendations
- Update their health care provider between appointments on their return to work progress
- Communicate with the person, their employer, and health care provider to make adjustments in their return to work plan
- Answer the person's questions and assist them
Categories
Employment Transition Counseling
Workers Compensation Recipients
Helps families pay for child care, so parents can work, look for a job or attend school. The program is available for children younger than 13 and for children with special needs who are younger than 15.
Programs are:
- Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Child Care Assistance
- Transitional Year Child Care Assistance for a full year after MFIP case close
- Basic Sliding Fee Child Care Assistance
Helps families pay for child care, so parents can work, look for a job or attend school. The program is available for children younger than 13 and for children with special needs who are younger than 15.
Programs are:
- Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Child Care Assistance
- Transitional Year Child Care Assistance for a full year after MFIP case close
- Basic Sliding Fee Child Care Assistance
Categories
Child Care Expense Assistance Applications
TANF Recipients
- Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are aged, blind or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits
- Some persons whose income is to high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA
- Can apply online at www.mnbenefits.mn.gov
- Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are aged, blind or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits
- Some persons whose income is to high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA
- Can apply online at www.mnbenefits.mn.gov
Categories
Older Adults
State Administered SSI Supplement Programs
SSI Recipients
Low Income
Outreach program which assists families in scheduling well-child checks, including transportation and language resources
Outreach program which assists families in scheduling well-child checks, including transportation and language resources
Categories
Well Baby Care
Medicaid Recipients
Outreach Programs
Child Health and Disability Prevention Exams
Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are aged, blind or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Some persons whose income is too high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA.
NOTE: Most of these persons also receive or are eligible to receive SSI and/or RSDI. Applications for SSI/RSDI are handled through the local Social Security office, not Hennepin County. Persons may be eligible for the Medicare Savings Programs.
Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are aged, blind or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Some persons whose income is too high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA.
NOTE: Most of these persons also receive or are eligible to receive SSI and/or RSDI. Applications for SSI/RSDI are handled through the local Social Security office, not Hennepin County. Persons may be eligible for the Medicare Savings Programs.
Categories
State Administered SSI Supplement Programs
SSI Recipients
Older Adults
- Transportation assistance for non-emergency medical services.
- Door to door paratransit service may not be available in all cases. Type of service depends on the insurance provider of the caller. Some insurance providers may limit transportation to within certain mileage.
- If transportation isn't available, gas reimbursement or bus tokens may be provided. Call for case-specific information.
NOTE: Will not do stretchers.
- Transportation assistance for non-emergency medical services.
- Door to door paratransit service may not be available in all cases. Type of service depends on the insurance provider of the caller. Some insurance providers may limit transportation to within certain mileage.
- If transportation isn't available, gas reimbursement or bus tokens may be provided. Call for case-specific information.
NOTE: Will not do stretchers.
Categories
Gas Money
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Mileage Reimbursements
Bus Fare
Medicaid Recipients
Assists in paying for Medicare premiums. Participants must still pay for Medicare services that aren't covered, such as routine physicals and prescription drugs under these programs. Generally under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check, increasing participants' monthly income.
Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only.
Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.
Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.
Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments.
Assists in paying for Medicare premiums. Participants must still pay for Medicare services that aren't covered, such as routine physicals and prescription drugs under these programs. Generally under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check, increasing participants' monthly income.
Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only.
Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.
Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.
Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments.
Categories
Medicare Beneficiaries
Medicare Savings Programs
Health Insurance Premium Assistance
Assists in paying for Medicare premiums. Participants must still pay for Medicare services that aren't covered, such as routine physicals and prescription drugs under these programs. Generally under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check, increasing participants' monthly income.
Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only.
Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.
Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.
Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments.
Assists in paying for Medicare premiums. Participants must still pay for Medicare services that aren't covered, such as routine physicals and prescription drugs under these programs. Generally under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check, increasing participants' monthly income.
Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only.
Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.
Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only.
Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments.
Categories
Medicare Beneficiaries
Medicare Savings Programs
Health Insurance Premium Assistance
Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency including:
- Adult education
- Budgeting assistance
- Career planning
- Computer classes
- Interviewing skills
- Job search assistance
- Post-secondary education
- Resume development
- Short-term training
- Support services
- Transportation assistance
- Vocational interest
Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency including:
- Adult education
- Budgeting assistance
- Career planning
- Computer classes
- Interviewing skills
- Job search assistance
- Post-secondary education
- Resume development
- Short-term training
- Support services
- Transportation assistance
- Vocational interest
Categories
Resume Preparation Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Vocational Assessment
Classroom Training
Career Counseling
Job Interview Training
Food Stamps/SNAP Recipients
Adult Basic Education
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Job Search/Placement
Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:
- Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples.
Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:
- Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples.
Categories
Health Insurance Premium Assistance
Medicare Savings Programs
Older Adults
Medicare Beneficiaries
Low Income
Minnesota Supplemental Aid (MSA) is a monthly cash grant for people who are aged, blind, or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. People may also be eligible for the Medicare Savings Programs.
Minnesota Supplemental Aid (MSA) is a monthly cash grant for people who are aged, blind, or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. People may also be eligible for the Medicare Savings Programs.
Categories
Older Adults
State Administered SSI Supplement Programs
SSI Recipients
Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are 65 years of age or older, or are aged, blind, or disabled, and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Applicants whose income is too high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA. Call for information.
NOTE: Most participants also receive or are eligible to receive SSI and/or Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (RSDI) . Applications are handled through local Social Security offices, not local counties.
Participants may be eligible for Medicare Savings Programs.
Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are 65 years of age or older, or are aged, blind, or disabled, and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Applicants whose income is too high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA. Call for information.
NOTE: Most participants also receive or are eligible to receive SSI and/or Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (RSDI) . Applications are handled through local Social Security offices, not local counties.
Participants may be eligible for Medicare Savings Programs.
Categories
SSI Recipients
Older Adults
State Administered SSI Supplement Programs
- Lab, Radiology, and specialized diagnostics
- Provides 20 visiting specialists on-site on a regular basis
- Seven family practice doctors and six physician assistants
- Includes mental health professionals
- Lab, Radiology, and specialized diagnostics
- Provides 20 visiting specialists on-site on a regular basis
- Seven family practice doctors and six physician assistants
- Includes mental health professionals
Categories
General Medical Care
Medicaid Recipients
Medicare Beneficiaries
Family and Community Medicine
Hospital Based Outpatient Services
Families
Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are aged, blind or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Some persons whose income is too high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA.
NOTE: Most of these persons also receive or are eligible to receive SSI, and/or RSDI. Applications for SSI/RSDI are handled through the local Social Security office, not Norman County. Persons may be eligible for the Medicare Savings Programs.
Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are aged, blind or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Some persons whose income is too high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA.
NOTE: Most of these persons also receive or are eligible to receive SSI, and/or RSDI. Applications for SSI/RSDI are handled through the local Social Security office, not Norman County. Persons may be eligible for the Medicare Savings Programs.
Categories
State Administered SSI Supplement Programs
SSI Recipients
Older Adults
Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:
- Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance and co-payments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples. Countable resources include money in a checking or savings account, stocks, and bonds. A home, one car, a burial plot, $1,500 in burial expenses (if the amount is put aside) furniture, and other household and personal items do not apply for the resource limit. Generally under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check, making participants' monthly income increase.
Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:
- Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance and co-payments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples. Countable resources include money in a checking or savings account, stocks, and bonds. A home, one car, a burial plot, $1,500 in burial expenses (if the amount is put aside) furniture, and other household and personal items do not apply for the resource limit. Generally under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check, making participants' monthly income increase.
Categories
Health Insurance Premium Assistance
Medicare Beneficiaries
Older Adults
Low Income
Medicare Savings Programs
Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are aged, blind or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Some persons whose income is too high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA.
NOTE: Most of these persons also receive or are eligible to receive SSI, and/or RSDI. Applications for SSI/RSDI are handled through the local Social Security office, not Saint Louis County. Persons may be eligible for the Medicare Savings Programs.
Provides a monthly cash grant to people who are aged, blind or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Some persons whose income is too high to receive SSI may be eligible for MSA.
NOTE: Most of these persons also receive or are eligible to receive SSI, and/or RSDI. Applications for SSI/RSDI are handled through the local Social Security office, not Saint Louis County. Persons may be eligible for the Medicare Savings Programs.
Categories
SSI Recipients
State Administered SSI Supplement Programs
Assistance with paying child care costs for children up to age 12 and for children with special needs up to age 14.
Child care costs may be paid for families while parents work, look for work or attend school.
Family size, family income and participation in authorized activities, as well as available funding are considerations in determining the amount of the assistance.
Assistance with paying child care costs for children up to age 12 and for children with special needs up to age 14.
Child care costs may be paid for families while parents work, look for work or attend school.
Family size, family income and participation in authorized activities, as well as available funding are considerations in determining the amount of the assistance.
Categories
Child Care Expense Assistance Applications
TANF Recipients
The goal of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program employment and training program (SNAP E&T) is to help SNAP recipients gain employment and self-sufficiency. This is a voluntary program. The service is available to SNAP participants who want help meeting the work requirements in order to earn additional months of SNAP benefits or to improve their employment prospects and wage potential.
Services including:
. Free training
. Help with job search
. Supportive services such as transportation assistance and other job related necessities
The goal of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program employment and training program (SNAP E&T) is to help SNAP recipients gain employment and self-sufficiency. This is a voluntary program. The service is available to SNAP participants who want help meeting the work requirements in order to earn additional months of SNAP benefits or to improve their employment prospects and wage potential.
Services including:
. Free training
. Help with job search
. Supportive services such as transportation assistance and other job related necessities
Categories
Welfare to Work Programs
Food Stamps/SNAP Recipients
Public assistance work program including career planning, job search assistance, access to specialized career services, and support services.
Public assistance work program including career planning, job search assistance, access to specialized career services, and support services.
Categories
TANF Recipients
Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Career Counseling
Helps people return to the workplace due to an injury or illness that is affecting their ability to work.
A RETAIN Return to Work Case Manager is a member of the person's health care team and will work with them and their employer and health care provider to:
- Help the person and their employer plan for their return to work
- Identify safe work tasks based on their health care provider's recommendations
- Update their health care provider between appointments on their return to work progress
- Communicate with the person, their employer, and health care provider to make adjustments in their return to work plan
- Answer the person's questions and assist them
Helps people return to the workplace due to an injury or illness that is affecting their ability to work.
A RETAIN Return to Work Case Manager is a member of the person's health care team and will work with them and their employer and health care provider to:
- Help the person and their employer plan for their return to work
- Identify safe work tasks based on their health care provider's recommendations
- Update their health care provider between appointments on their return to work progress
- Communicate with the person, their employer, and health care provider to make adjustments in their return to work plan
- Answer the person's questions and assist them
Categories
Employment Transition Counseling
Workers Compensation Recipients
Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:
- Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples.
Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:
- Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples.
Categories
Older Adults
Medicare Savings Programs
Medicare Beneficiaries
Health Insurance Premium Assistance
Low Income
Minnesota Supplemental Aid (MSA) is a state funded program that provides a monthly cash supplement to persons who are aged, blind, or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Some recipients who do not receive SSI because their other income is too high, may still be eligible for MSA if they meet MSA eligibility criteria and their income is below the MSA standard. MSA participants are also eligible for help with medical costs through the Medical Assistance (MA) program and for Food Support.
Minnesota Supplemental Aid (MSA) is a state funded program that provides a monthly cash supplement to persons who are aged, blind, or disabled and who receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Some recipients who do not receive SSI because their other income is too high, may still be eligible for MSA if they meet MSA eligibility criteria and their income is below the MSA standard. MSA participants are also eligible for help with medical costs through the Medical Assistance (MA) program and for Food Support.
Categories
State Administered SSI Supplement Programs
SSI Recipients
Older Adults
Low Income
A mental health program for children who require varying levels of intervention to address conditions of emotional disturbance that interfere with their ability to function independently. The program contains components of psychotherapy, and individual, family, and group skills training.
A mental health program for children who require varying levels of intervention to address conditions of emotional disturbance that interfere with their ability to function independently. The program contains components of psychotherapy, and individual, family, and group skills training.
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Family Psychoeducation
Life Skills Education
Psychodynamic Therapy
Medicaid Recipients
Children and Youth With Emotional Disturbance