Lift Our Kids is a Coalition of 160 Massachusetts organizations dedicated to improving cash assistance programs for the Commonwealth’s lowest income children and families.
Lift Our Kids is currently leading a campaign to Lift Kids Out of Deep Poverty by setting a floor for welfare (TAFDC and EAEDC) benefits at 50 percent of the federal poverty level.
“Deep poverty” is income below half the federal poverty level – $1076 a month for a family of three in 2024.
TAFDC is intended to meet families’ basic needs. But the maximum grant for a family of three in 2024 is only $783 a month.
Grants are too low to provide for kids’ basic needs.
ACTION ALERT
Contact your legislators to ask them to prioritize a 20% increase to cash assistance grants in the FY25 state budget. Click here to learn more