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A Better Life -- A Safer Community: Helping Inmates Access Federal Benefits

Publication year: 2003 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The ability of just release mentally ill offenders -- adult and juvenile -- to obtain federal benefits is examined. This brief is comprised of sections regarding: the impact on recidivism and quality of life; federal programs; problematic federal rules; state flexibility in federal programs; restoring federal benefits such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), food stamps, and veterans' benefits; state and local initiatives to restore benefits; and strategies for advocacy.
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