benefits at all levels
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For A Community:
- Allows families to apply for the benefits that will help them most in gaining self-sufficiency
- Helps families use their time effectively by describing how each benefit works, where to apply, and what documents to bring
- Can test how changes in income will affect their monthly budget and benefit eligibility
- When more benefit dollars enter the community, the "multiplier effect" positively compounds that money
- Families are able to make ends meet and plan for futures of self-sufficiency
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For Foundations and Agencies:
- Streamlined software and training has partner agencies conducting benefit counseling in a matter of hours not days or months
- Constantly provides up-to-date information to partner agencies
- Standardizes services across diverse agencies and constituencies
- Enables local branding and training
- Low-cost annual maintenance/licensing & in-house training reduces expenses
- Record benefit outcomes and track clients’ progress towards self-sufficiency
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For A Caseworker:
- User-friendly technology makes mastering the software easy
- Quicker client-screening process takes about 10 minutes; other tools can require more than an hour
- Allows caseworkers and clients to develop self-sufficiency plans together
- Makes complex budgets simple to understand and review with clients
- Provides caseworkers at their fingertips with answers to some of clients most frequent questions about what help is available in their community
What Is the Calculator?
The calculator is web-based software that gives caseworkers the ability to match families with the appropriate benefits.
When caseworkers provide information about a family, the Calculator analyzes those inputs to determine which benefits (and amounts) the family should be eligible for. A key calculator feature allows for various wages to be input to see how that change can affect a family’s benefit status.
Armed with this information, the head-of-household can apply for the benefits that will most effectively help a family meet its needs. Additionally, the budgeting function allows caseworkers to run multiple scenarios with different wages to see how changes in income can affect crucial benefit eligibilities.
More Info About the Calculator:
Dynamic Results
Shows a "before" and "after" budget that takes those benefit amounts into account in relation to each other. Capable of running multiple scenarios with different wages to see how changes in income can affect crucial benefit eligibilities
Provides user-friendly technology designed exclusively for case managers and career advisors to master usage with the greatest of ease
How It Works
Quick 10-minute guided screening process
Identifies which of 15 different benefits and tax credits clients are eligible for at the local, state and federal levels of assistance
Describes how each benefit works, where to apply and what documents to bring
Maintains an accuracy rate of 95% with updates to metrics consistently maintained to assure result-driven precision.