Benefit Bridge
What is a Benefit Bridge Program?
The Lucas County Benefit Bridge program is designed to help individuals and families, who experience a significant reduction or loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits due to wage increases, continue their path to self-sufficiency.
What Services are available?
This 18-month program is intended to support stability needed to maintain employment, gain skills needed to move into higher paying positions and become self-sufficient. Our Benefit Bridge program offers incentives, job retention and advancement, job and education coaching, peer mentoring, financial literacy, training certifications and community referrals for social services, legal and mental health services.
What are the Requirements?
There are many factors that are used to determine whether someone will be enrolled in the Benefit Bridge program. Below are some requirements for the applicant to consider:
- Employed individual working at least 20 hours per week and receiving SNAP and/or Publicly Funded Childcare who is experiencing a significant decrease in benefits or proposed closure due to earned income in the prior 60 days from application date
- Unemployed individual receiving SNAP and/or Publicly Funded Childcare who enrolls in a WIOA or SNAP Employment & Training short term training program (4 months max) and is expected to have employment within 60 days following training
- Individual NOT serving Intentional Program Violation (IPV)
- Individual NOT currently on an overpayment (with Fraud by IPV or court decision)
- Sanctioned individual is not eligible until sanction compliance is completed
- In-person intake and ongoing meetings with assigned Mobility Mentor
- Completion of financial literacy program
How to Apply?
If you would like to be considered for our program, click on the Apply Here link below. If you have questions about the program, please leave a message at 419.213.6314.
What are the Next Steps?
Applications will be processed in the order received and as quickly as possible. You will either be contacted by phone or sent an email to let you know the result of your application.