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Ray Avrutis, Democratic candidate for
Ward 2 Councilmember
September 12, 2000, Primary

Your “Welfare” Programs List, August 2000

YOUR "WELFARE" PROGRAMS LIST

This list of 99 welfare programs is given away, free with no copyright claimed (so Xerox or fax this and give to your friends!) as a public service by Ray Avrutis, candidate for D.C. City Council, Ward 2, in the Tuesday, September 12, 2000 election.

Homeless people are eligible at least for programs marked with an asterisk (*), as well as for the "Homeless Programs" section at the end. (Sources: Cash and Noncash Benefits for persons with Limited Income: Eligibility rules Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY 1996-FY 1998. published Dec. 15, 1999 by the Congressional Research Service, with information compiled by Vee Burke, [Order Code RL30401]; HOMELESSNESS: Coordination and Evaluation of Programs are Essential. U.S. General Accounting Office, February 1999 [Order Code GAO/RCED-99-49]. Both publications are free.)

Take this list to the welfare caseworker. Ask for all benefits to which you are rightfully entitled. It is possible to develop a one-step, one-stop application form for all welfare programs. But this probably doesn't exist in America ...yet. (Would someone please tell me if any foreign country has a one-step, one-stop process for all of their welfare programs?) If American technology can send people into outer space to map the planet with great accuracy, then we can also map out the laws, rules and major regulations of our welfare programs as well.

Rich people hire well-paid lawyers to help them obtain every benefit possible under the law. (Did you ever hear of a wealthy person refusing to take money that he or she was rightfully entitled to?) Poor and unemployed people should do the same with the programs that apply to them ...and then ask for more!

A national radio or TV network should hire me to host "The Welfare Show," featuring various government officials who will explain how to get the most from being poor and/or homeless. One of my goals is to make these "welfare" programs perfectly clear for the truly and newly needy, as well as for the unemployed.

Welfare entitlements studies could generate many academic reports, even some Ph.D. dissertations (participant observation, anyone?). Do power structure research. If your school paper won't print at least a summary of your findings, hand out flyers, "What Our School Paper Refused to Publish." Take the information to the local newspaper, if this occurs. Call in on talk shows and report unjust welfare hassles; advise people on how to avoid these hassles. If you meet all the requirements, you have a right to these benefits, solely because you are alive.

(Students! You are disqualified or held ineligible from unemployment insurance [UI] in at least 22 states, just because you're a student. UI is not welfare, but a limited, earned right. So take your local unemployment office to court, and appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in the past has ruled in favor of the unemployed in several cases.)

Medical Aid: 1. Medicaid* 2. Medical Care for Veterans Without Service Connected Disability. 3. General Assistance (Medical Care Component) 4. Indian Health Services 5. Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant, Title V or the Social Security Act* 6. Consolidated Health Centers* 7. Title X Family Planning Services 8. State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP)* 9. Medical Assistance to Refugees and Cuban/Haitian Entrants

Cash Aid: 10. SSI* 11. Earned Income Tax Credit 12. "welfare"* 13. Foster Care 14. General Assistance 15. Pensions for Needy Veterans, their Dependents, and Survivors 16. Adoption Assistance 17. General Assistance to Indians 18. Cash Assistance to Refugees and Cuban/Haitian Entrants 19. Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) and Death Compensation for Parents of Veterans.

Food Aid: 20. Food Stamps* 21. School Lunch Program* 22. The WIC Program* 23. Child and Adult Care Food Program* 24. School Breakfast Program* 25. Nutrition Program for the Elderly 26. The Emergency Food Assistance Program* 27. Summer Food Service Program* 28. Commodity Supplemental Food Program* 29. Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations 30. Special Milk Program*

Housing Benefits: 31. Section 8 Low-Income Housing Assistance* 32. Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)* 33. Low-Rent Public Housing 34. Rural Housing Loans 35. Section 236 Interest Reduction Payments 36. Rural Rental Assistance Payments 37. Rural Rental Housing Loans 38. Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere (HOPE) Programs 39. Rural Housing Repair Loans and Grants 40. Section 101 Rent Supplements 41. Section 235 Homeownership Assistance for Low-Income Families (rolls frozen since 1989. No new applicants accepted; Congress should "unfreeze" the roles) 42. Rural Housing Self-Help Technical Assistance Grants and Rural Housing Site Loans 432. Farm Labor Housing Loans and Grants 44. Indian Housing Improvement Grants 45. Rural Housing Preservation Grants.

Education Aid: 46. Federal Pell Grants. 47. Head Start* 48. Subsidized Federal Stafford and Stafford/Ford Loans 49. Federal Work Study Program 50. Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants 51. Federal TRIO Programs (special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds 52. Chapter 1 Migrant Education programs 53. Perkins Loans 54. Health Professions Student Loans and Scholarships 55. Leveraging Educational Assistance partnerships (LEAP) 56. Fellowships for Graduate and Professional Study 57. Migrant High School Equivalency Program (HEP) 58. College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) 59. Ellender Fellowships Services: 60. Social Services Block Grant (Title XX)* 61. Child Care and Development Block Grant* 62. Homeless Assistance Grants* 63. Community Services Block Grants* 64. Legal Services 65. Social Services for Refugees and Cuban/Haitian Entrants 66. Emergency Food and Shelter Program*

Jobs and Training Aid: 67. Job Corps 68. Adult Training Program (new title on 7/1/00) 69. Summer Youth Employment and Training Program 70. Senior Community Service Employment Program. 71. Youth Training Program* (new title on 7/1/00) 72. Foster Grandparents 73. Senior Companions 74. Welfare-to-Work Grants* 75. Native Employment Works Program

Energy Aid: 76. Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) 77. Weatherization Assistance. Homeless Programs:* 78. Homeless Children Nutrition Program 79. Education for Homeless Children and Youth 80. Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I Part A 81. Emergency Food and Shelter Program 82. Health Care for the Homeless 83. Projects in Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) 84. Runaway and Homeless Youth-Basic Center, Street Outreach, & Transitional Living 85. Mental Health Performance Partnership Block Grant 86. Migrant Health Centers 87. Ryan White CARE Act, Titles I, II 88. Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. 89. Shelter Plus Care. 90. Supportive Housing Program 91. Community Development Block Grant 92. Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS 93. Public and Indian Housing 94. Section 8 Project-Based Assistance 95. Section 8 Rental Certificate and Voucher Program 96. Section 811-Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities 97. Homeless Veterans Reintegration 98. Domiciliary Care for Homeless Veterans 99. Homeless Chronically Mentally III Veterans.

If you know of welfare programs besides the ones listed above, please write to me at P.O. Box 18231, Washington, D.C. 20036-8231. Thank you!

ELECT RAY AVRUTIS WARD 2 CITY COUNCILPERSON ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2000

About the Candidate: I am a native Washingtonian, who graduated from the Walden School, and was elected Senior Class President at American U., where I received my B.A. in sociology; M.A., sociology, NYU. I also earned an M.P.A. in public management and an M.S. in labor studies from UDC. Unemployed myself, I am running for City Council to get a job that uses my creative intelligence. As long as free elections and unemployment co-exist on this planet, I invite others to follow my constructive lead.

(I also need a mass-market publisher for the 4' Edition of my unique, out-of-print book, "How to Collect Unemployment Benefits: Complete Information for All 50 States," tentatively retitled "Buy This Book! You or A Friend May Soon Need It.")


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