Emergency Assistance

Prevention Services for Families receiving TANF or SSI and GA individuals

WFNJ clients may receive Emergency Assistance (EA) in certain situations if found eligible.

These benefits include, but are not limited to: essential food, clothing, shelter and household furnishings; temporary rental assistance or back rent or mortgage payments; utility payments (such as heat, water, and electric); transportation to search for housing; and moving expenses.

Eligible persons include those who are homeless or at immediate risk of becoming homeless, and those who have experienced a substantial loss of housing, food, clothing or household furnishings due to fire, flood or similar disaster.

Emergency Assistance

Emergency Assistance is limited to 12 months. However, extensions may be granted under certain hardship conditions, with specific limitations.

WorkFirst NJ (WFNJ)

The state's welfare reform program, WorkFirst NJ, emphasizes work as the first step toward building a new life and a brighter future. Our goal is to help people get off welfare, secure employment and become self-sufficient, through job training, education and work activities.

WFNJ provides temporary cash assistance and many other support services to families through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

New Jersey is one of only a few states that also provides cash benefits and support services to individuals and couples with no dependent children, through our General Assistance (GA) program.

Contact

Customers receiving TANF/GA or SSI can call the following phone number to complete an Emergency Assistance application via telephone: (609) 348-3001 Ext. 2818, 2717

Unit Supervisors
(609) 348-3001 Ext. 2984, 2750