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Code
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Display
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Definition
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| CSFP |
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program |
Program that provides food assistance for low-income seniors with a monthly package of healthy USDA commodities. |
| ForDisabled |
Programs for Persons with Disabilities |
Public programs to supplement lost income due to physical or mental impairment that prevents a person from working. Examples include: Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) |
| Food |
Food Assistance Program |
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| ForSeniors |
Program for Seniors |
Programs that provide financial help, community based services that allow seniors to remain at home, home-delivered meals, home heating, etc.Examples of Federal programs that support aging include Section 8 Housing, Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), Medicare & Medicaid,the Commodity Supplemental Food Program(CSFP). |
| Homelessness |
Homelessness Prevention Programs |
Programs providing financial and support services that help keep people in their current housing, help them to move into new housing, and to prevent people from experiencing homelessness. |
| ONHPP |
Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs |
Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs (ONHPP) manages health, prevention, and wellness programs for older adults. This includes behavorial health information, chronic disease self-management education programs; diabetes self-management, disease prevention and health promotion services (“Title IIID”), falls prevention programs; HIV/AIDS education, nutrition services, and oral health promotion. |
| SNAP |
Suplemental Nutrition Assistance Program |
SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as the Food Stamp Program. SNAP is a government program that provides a sliding scale of income designated for food to low-wage working families, low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and other individuals with low incomes. |
| TANF |
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families |
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides states and territories with flexibility in operating programs designed to help low-income families with children achieve economic self-sufficiency. States use TANF to fund monthly cash assistance payments to low-income families with children, as well as a wide range of services. |
| TEFAP |
The Emergency Food Assistance Program |
Program that provides nutritious foods and nutrition education for low-income, at risk women, infants. |
| WIC |
Women, Infants, & Children |
Program that provides nutritious foods and nutrition education for low-income, at risk women, infants. |