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  • Report: Evaluating the Challenges to Self-sufficiency Faced by TANF Clients in Alaska (PDF)
  • HHS awards $5.6 million to Alaska as 'performance bonus'
  • Child Care Assistance Program Transition for the Fairbanks North Star Borough Service Area Effective July 1, 2011.

  • Text4Baby is a new resource for pregnant mothers.  This is a service designed to provide free, health –related text messages to pregnant women and new mothers.  Women who sign up for this service by texting BABY to 511411 will receive free SMS text messages each week, timed to their due date or baby’s date of birth.

  • View current maximum monthly Food Stamp benefit amounts
  • Flyer for customers: Food Stamp Benefit Increase
  • Poster: Food Stamp coupons expire June 17, 2009
  • Poster: Stimulus Act increases Food Stamp benefit
  • Native Family Assistance Program Guide
  • State Response Team Travels to Emmonak
  • Facing the Final Countdown: A Study of Long-term Temporary Assistance Recipients
  • Alaska Temporary Assistance Program Leaver Study

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  • 2011 Alaska TANF State Plan (6/11), Certification and Appendices (6/11)

  • Try our Food Stamps Eligibility Calculator!
  • The Government may owe you money!!
  • Consider Direct Deposit! Receive Public Assistance benefits easily and quickly through Direct Deposit.
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