Wisconsin DHS receives federal approval to assist homeless families

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – The Wisconsin Division of Well being Providers introduced it acquired federal approval from the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers to offer housing assist for low-income Wisconsin households in want.

Those that are eligible embrace households with youngsters 18 and youthful.

Additionally included below eligibility are people who’re pregnant, have an earnings beneath 200% of the federal poverty stage and don’t have housing.

“In Dane county, there are 79 households with youngsters that we’ve recognized which can be experiencing homelessness and sleeping both in a shelter or a spot not meant for human habitation,” Madison and Dane county continuum of care coordinator Torrie Mueller stated.

Mueller stated this yr alone, there are 722 college students within the Madison Metropolitan College District experiencing homelessness.

“Housing stability is amazingly necessary for households and for everybody, and we all know that when households have a spot to be that’s secure… they only do higher,” Mueller stated.

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