Food
CalFresh (SNAP food benefits)
Monthly money for food, on a card that works like a debit card at most supermarkets. Two rules matter for older households and are widely missed: a household that includes someone aged 60 or older, or someone disabled, only has to meet the NET income limit rather than the gross income test, and its countable resource limit is 4,500 dollars instead of 3,000. Being over the headline income number is not the same as being ruled out, because deductions come off first.
How to apply
Apply at BenefitsCal.com, the state application portal, or through your county social services office. The county decides eligibility, not us.
What we screen on
These are the rules the checker actually uses. Every one carries the source it was read from and the date it was read, so you can check us.
We hold no bright-line eligibility rule for this programme yet. That means we will not narrow it, and we will not rule anybody out of it. The agency decides, and the official page below is the place to start.
What we will not tell you
We will not tell you that you qualify for this, because that is the agency's decision and not ours. We screen against the rules above, we show which ones we could check, and we say plainly when a rule exists that we do not hold.