Organizational example:

Name

EarnBenefits®
SEEDCO
Ney York City, NY

Program Purpose

EarnBenefits is a three-tiered service delivery strategy for helping low-wage workers access income-enhancing benefits and work supports to move them toward long-term labor force attachment and economic self-sufficiency. 

Program Description

EarnBenefits services include:

• Marketing and outreach to educate workers about government-sponsored and private work supports using the public website www.earnbenefits.org
• Eligibility screening and facilitated access through which they centralize and streamline access to multiple benefits using a web-based technology tool, EarnBenefits Online (EBO)
• Benefits management to engage low-wage families over time to ensure that benefit access leads to continuous employment and economic well-being.

EarnBenefits provides access to healthcare, childcare, income support and housing benefits as well as to tax credits and financial services. EarnBenefits services are delivered in venues that are accessible to a broad range of low-wage workers including employer worksites, community-based organizations (CBOs) in neighborhoods of need, WIA One Stop Career Centers, childcare centers, and community colleges. EarnBenefits is currently operating in New York City (NY), Memphis (TN), and Atlanta (GA). In 2006 new sites will open in Baltimore (MD) and Buffalo (NY).

Progress

Since 2004, EarnBenefits has screened over 11,000 low-wage workers for benefits and verified that over 4,500 received at least one benefit. The value of these benefits is over $5,360,000.

Contact Information

Chauncy Lennon 
Vice President for Asset Building
Seedco
915 Broadway, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10010
T: 212.204.1332
clennon@seedco.org
www.earnbenefits.org
www.seedco.org