10.4 Benefits

A client’s options for benefits should be explored. Food assistance programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (SNAP) and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) may be applied for on an expedited basis. Financial assistance programs like FITAP benefits (or TANF) take longer to get. The 24- and 60-month limits on FITAP benefits may be waived for domestic violence victims.1

Clients who lose their jobs should look to see if they qualify for unemployment insurance and should contact an attorney if they are improperly denied, as an administrative appeal is possible.2  Client’s families which include non-parents who are caring for displaced children, may be eligible for the Kinship Care Subsidy, which can be as much as $222 a month for each eligible child.3

• 1La. R.S. 46:460.9.
• 2For more detailed discussion of the appealing a denial of unemployment compensation, see Section 5.6 of this manual’s chapter on employment law.
• 3See Additional Resources for You, La. Dep’t of Child. & Fam. Servs.