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Provides temporary cash assistance and supportive services to low-income families with dependent children through the WorkFirst New Jersey program. Services may include employment and training activities, childcare support, transportation assistance, and connections to healthcare and other benefits to help families achieve self-sufficiency.

Aims to promote personal responsibility and self-sufficiency through work. Able-bodied recipients are required to participate in a work-related activity. All WFNJ recipients who are participating in an approved work activity are eligible to receive monthly bus passes or daily tickets in order to get to their activity site. Long-term recipients are also provided with intensive case management services to assist clients in becoming more self-sufficient.

Provides families who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Services may include, but are not limited to: Childcare payment assistance, transportation services, work-related expenses (limited), and family violence intervention.

Provides families who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Services may include childcare payment assistance, transportation services, work-related expenses, and family violence intervention.    

Providing individuals the opportunity for training or referrals on order to be employment self-sufficient. Offers a comprehensive range of workforce readiness programs. 

Provides individuals and couples without children who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. For residents of Cape May County. 

Provides individuals and couples without children who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Available for Passaic County residents. 

Provides an assistance program designed to promote personal responsibility and self-sufficiency through work. Able bodied recipients are required to participate in a work-related activity.    

Provides families who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Services may include child care payment assistance, transportation services, work-related expenses (limited), and family violence intervention.

Supports Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and General Assistance (GA) clients with job readiness and search efforts, mandating volunteer work for those unable to secure employment. Participation in this employment program is mandatory for all TANF and GA clients.

Provides families who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Services may include: Childcare payment assistance, Transportation services, Work-related expenses (limited), Family violence intervention.

Provides families who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Services include: childcare payment assistance, work-related expense assistance, transportation, and family violence intervention.     

Provides families who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Services include, but are not limited to: Childcare payment assistance, transportation services, work-related expenses (limited), and family violence intervention.

Offers to create a safety net for those families and individuals who exhausted their five-year time limit on welfare and do not meet the criteria for an exemption to the time limit. Work First New Jersey [WFNJ].

Promoting economic self-sufficiency, the SAIF Program aims to reduce welfare dependency for individuals receiving benefits for over 48 months, impacting 750 people annually. Offering services to those facing barriers to self-sufficiency, the program employs a holistic approach addressing homelessness, recovery, and mental health. It features an Intensive Case Management and outreach component, with referrals from the Essex County Division of Training and Employment.

Provides families who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Services may include child care payment assistance, transportation services, work-related expenses (limited) and family violence intervention.

Offers individuals and couples without children who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance. This also includes support services.    

Supports Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and General Assistance (GA) clients with job readiness and search efforts, mandating volunteer work for those unable to secure employment. Participation in this employment program is mandatory for all TANF and GA clients.

Provides individuals and couples without children who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance and support services. Part of the state's welfare to work program, WorkFirst NJ emphasizes work as the first step toward building a new life and better future with the goal of helping people become economically self-sufficient through job training, education, and work activities.

Provides individuals and couples without children who meet criteria and income guidelines temporary cash assistance. Support services are also included.