NIWAP’s Interactive Public Benefits Map (January 19, 2025)
All State Public Benefits Charts and Interactive Public Benefits Map (2025)
Directory of Victim Advocacy and Legal Programs With Expertise Serving Immigrant Victims
Description
The publicly funded benefits and services an immigrant child or parent is eligible to receive varies by state, by immigration status, and by type of program. Judges issuing court orders need to be able to quickly access legally correct information about the full range of benefits and services that are available to the children and parents that come before them in court. Accessing health care, for example, can be particularly challenging because only certain groups of immigrants are eligible to purchase health insurance through state and federal healthcare exchanges. In this peer-to-peer session, faculty discuss how judges can use NIWAP’s online interactive public benefits map and charts to ensure that judges direct the foreign-born children they encounter in court to the public programs and benefits for which they are legally eligible and that judges do not order children or families to apply for public benefits they are not eligible to receive. This is a peer-to-peer forum intended for judges, magistrates, commissioners, Tribal judges, other judicial officers and court staff.