Partnerships that Connect Residents to Work supports
Everything BUT the Kitchen Sink!
100
It's currently known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
What is food stamps
100
This work support can help working parents pay for after school care, day care, etc.
What is a type of Child Care Assistance
100
Work supports supplement income, boosting residents farther out of poverty
Why does REES invest in work supports?
100
This sister City Agency is also a city-wide partner for financial counseling.
What is Mayor's Office of Economic Empowerment
100
Is mostly NOT to keep a gift card.
Who is Finda (only while play white elephant with her REES colleagues)
200
Through their partnership with OFE, they helped households receive $4.77 million in refunds.
Who is the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union?
200
This federal program trains volunteers to prepare free tax returns.
What is VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance)
200
Money saved through work supports can put residents in a position to save or reduce debt thereby increasing financial stability
Why does REES invest in work supports?
200
For this partnership, REES has arranged for a advertisement to be included in NYCHA's February rent bill to promote this service.
What is OFE's Free Tax Preparation Campaign
200
"Kimye" is indeed with child.
Who are Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
300
Food Stamps helps put healthy food on the table for more than ______ million people each month.
What is 46 million people?
300
Students don't just earn certificates and diplomas, but they can also earn: Work Opportunity, American Opportunity and Lifetime Learning...
What are Tax Credits?
300
Average annual family income in Conventional Public Housing.
What is $22,824?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!
These three Zone partners can connect residents to food stamps in a more low-tech manner.
Who are NMIC, Phipps CDC, and University Settlement?
300
He had what was probably the best New Years Eve Party in NYC... and didn't take the train this time.
Who is Jay Z (Coldplay - Barclays Concert)
400
For working families living in New York City, the EITC could be worth up to $ ______.
$7,764
$7,593
$6,721
$5,938
What is $156 per month and $467 per month? Food stamps can help many families make ends meet every month.
400
Thanks to this work support, residents receive high quality assistance. NYS Tax Department estimates that 96% of VITA site-prepared returns were error free in 2011, compared to the national average of 87%.
What is Free Tax Preparation?
400
42% of eligible NYCHA households are not accessing this important resource.
What is food stamps/SNAP?
400
This Downtown Brooklyn partner can help residents apply for SNAP without stepping into HRA.
Who is Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corportation
400
It is a term used describe a bundle of U.S. federal tax increases and spending cuts that are due to take effect at the end of 2012 and early 2013.
What is the fiscal cliff?
500
It was an important food stamps proposition that Governor Cuomo presented in May 2012. (It also came with great oposition by Mayor Bloomberg.)
What is eliminating electronic fingerprinting of food stamp applicants? Proponents of this legislation say it discourages people from seeking benefits and does not actual curb fraud.
500
An expansion program intended to reach low-income adults that was created in 2000 under a federal waiver and is unique to New York State.
What is Family Health Plus?
500
Is the average monthly benefit amount for an individual on SNAP (food stamps).
What is $148.63
500
Through a partnership with this city-wide partner, REES will be able to offer on site food stamp screening and connections to application assistance to residents.
What is the Food Bank of NYC
500
Probably one of the best cook books written this year.