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Social Services Block Grant

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undefined Social Services Block Grant?

The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a capped entitlement program that provides funds to assist states in delivering social services directed toward the needs of children and adults. These services include:

  1. Preventing, reducing, or eliminating dependency
  2. Achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency
  3. Preventing neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults
  4. Preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care
  5. Securing admission or referral for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate

The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a capped entitlement program that provides funds to assist states in delivering social services directed toward the needs of children and adults. These services include:

  1. Preventing, reducing, or eliminating dependency
  2. Achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency
  3. Preventing neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults
  4. Preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care
  5. Securing admission or referral for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate

undefined Social Services Block Grant?

In order to qualify for this benefit program, you must characterize your financial situation as low income.

Each State determines what services to support and which populations to serve, and can refocus their SSBG expenditures over time as their populations' needs change.

undefined Social Services Block Grant?

You may apply for this program through your the SSBG Contact Info page to find SSBG Program Official or state SSBG Program Contacts.

State Office Information

For more contact information, please visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Services, Division of Social Services’ Staff Assignments by Region page.

Or

SSBG@acf.hhs.gov.

SSBG@acf.hhs.gov

93.667
Program not specific to American Indians and Alaska Natives, but they are eligible
Yes
Mandatory
Non-Tribal Entities
No
During fiscal year 2014, approximately 30 million people received services financed in part or in full by SSBG.
Annual appropriations
No
No
N/A

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