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Supplemental Security Income, called SSI, is a state program that gives you cash to pay for basic needs like food, clothing, and shelter. Sometimes people call this program Social Security.
 

TANF stands for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. TANF provides cash help to families with children living at home. TANF can help some immigrants pay for basic needs like housing, heat, and other things

Legal assistance for noncitizens on immigration-related issues. ILAP helps immigrants improve their legal status and advocates for more just and humane laws and policies.

As of Tuesday, December 29, 2020 this is what we know about when people will receive Federal unemployment payments under the new law passed by Congress and signed by the President on December 27^th:

Maine Equal Justice (MEJ) seeks a dynamic and creative Communications and Digital Outreach Coordinator (CDOC) to take our communications and digital engagement to the next level. The CDOC will support our work to expand access to affordable healthcare and will support education and outreach communications across the organization.

Maine Equal Justice seeks a dynamic and passionate Workforce Navigator to help us connect workers with good jobs, registered apprenticeship and training programs, unemployment benefits, and support services. The Navigator will actively reach out to connect workers with these opportunities. The Navigator will coordinate outreach, develop expertise in job placement, unemployment insurance, and other support services, and work to develop the leadership of workers to address systemic barriers that prevent workers from gaining dignity and economic security on the job.

A project within Pine Tree Legal Assistance, providing free civil legal aid for Maine’s children and their caregivers

The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Maine Tribal Populations was formed in 2019 to examine racial disparities across all systems and improve opportunities and outcomes for historically disadvantaged racial, indigenous and tribal populations in the State. It is an independent government entity that is empowered to conduct research, advise all three branches of government, submit its own legislation, hold public hearings, and more. It issued its first legislative report in 2020.