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Here’s where families with children can get assistance

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Raising a family is never easy.

Between diapers, child care and rent, the cost to raise a family is often overwhelming for many families.

You’re not alone, however. There are several programs available that can help families make ends meet.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a federally funded program that provides temporary assistance to families with children. The program offers financial assistance for child care and transportation.

Nevada administers five different programs under the TANF umbrella.

The TANF-NEON program offers cash assistance to families. The program requires most parents to engage in a certain number of work activities each week to maintain eligibility for the program. Families can receive benefits for up to two years.

For households with no work-eligible adults, including those where children are living with a relative or their parents are ineligible because of citizenship requirements, the TANF CHILD-ONLY program can provide monthly cash benefits.

The cash payments are intended to be used to pay for ongoing needs like food, shelter, clothing, transportation and child care. Both programs may require a household to cooperate with child support enforcement and provide information for federal data reporting.

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TANF also provides access to self-sufficiency grants – one time lump sum payments to help families with an immediate financial need. Another temporary program provides families with monthly cash payments for no more than four months during or after an unforeseen circumstance.

TANF also provides loans to households with a family member that will be employed in the near future and will be able to pay the monthly cash payments back. Families can receive benefits for up to 24 months.

Children between the ages of seven and 12 must attend school, while children over the age of 18 that are no longer enrolled in school are ineligible to receive benefits through the program.

Those wishing to apply for any of the programs must complete an application by accessing the online application, completing the form and faxing it to a local Department of Welfare and Supportive Services office or by requesting the application from the department’s website.

Eligibility decisions are usually made within 45 days.

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Women, Infants & Children Program

The USDA Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC) is a program that provides supplemental food for those that are pregnant, postpartum or breastfeeding, and children up to the age of five.

The program also provides assistance to other caregivers, including parents, grandparents, foster parents or other legal guardians of the child.

Participants in the program can use the benefits to purchase specific foods every month, including infant cereal, vitamin C-rich fruits, eggs, milk, cheese, peanut butter and other types of food.

The foods and amount that can be bought using WIC benefits is dependent on whether someone is pregnant or breastfeeding, and on the childrens’ ages. While breastfeeding, an individual can purchase more of certain foods, including cheese and eggs.

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Families can receive benefits if they make under a certain amount, based on household size. A family of two, for example, can make a maximum gross income of $3,041 a month to qualify for benefits.

To apply, call a local WIC clinic to schedule an appointment.

Child Care Assistance

According to a 2023 report, married couples in Nevada spent 15 percent of their wages on child care.

Families under a certain income can receive assistance paying for child care through the Child Care Subsidy Program, which is administered in Southern Nevada through a partnership between the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services and the Las Vegas Urban League.

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To qualify, adults and parents in the household must be working, looking for work, going to school or participating in another approved activity and must make under a certain amount.

For a household of four, the maximum monthly income must be under $6,327 to qualify for assistance.

Most households will be required to make a co-payment for the care, but certain households are exempt from the requirement.

Benefits are paid direct to a child care provider of the family’s choice. Subsidy amount is dependent on several factors, including the provider type and the child’s age, developmental needs and hours of care needed.

Those interested in applying can do so online or can contact the Las Vegas Urban League at 702-473-9400 or at childcareinfo@lvul.org.

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Contact Taylor R. Avery at TAvery@reviewjournal.com. Follow @travery98 on X.





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Court OK’s counting late-arriving mail ballots in Nevada, 29 other states

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Nevada’s laws allowing the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive up to four days after Election Day — so long as they are postmarked by that date — is constitutional under a Monday ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a 5-4 ruling, justices upheld a challenge to a Mississippi law that’s similar to Nevada’s statute. Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court’s three liberal members, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Katanji Brown Jackson, to uphold the law.

Conservatives Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

The ruling affects 30 states, all of which allow some ballots received after Election Day to be counted. That includes Nevada, which allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received and counted up to four days later, and ballots without a postmark to be received and counted up to three days later.

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Plaintiffs in the case — including the Republican National Committee and the Mississippi Republican Party — had contended that federal laws referring to “elections” mean both the casting and counting of ballots, which they said must occur on Election Day.

“The federal election-day statutes do not preempt Mississippi’s law because the defining element of an ‘election’ has always been the electorate’s choice of candidate,” the case summary reads. “And a related federal statute — the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act — confirms that while federal law dictates when ballots must be cast, state law governs when they must be received.”

In Nevada, critics have contended that late-arriving ballots erode confidence in elections, because they delay learning final election results for days and, in some close races, can change the outcome.

Gov. Joe Lombardo has called the weeklong wait for final, unofficial results “a national embarrassment.”

Plaintiffs in the case made similar arguments, but were turned away by the court: “Finally, plaintiffs policy arguments about election integrity and voter confidence are properly addressed to legislatures, not courts,” the case summary reads.

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Several attempts to require ballots to be received by Election Day have been introduced in Nevada’s Legislature, but none have been successful in the Democratically controlled body.

Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar has argued that the overwhelming majority of ballots are in and counted by Election Day, and only the closest races may be changed by late-arriving ballots. He’s advocated for more resources for county clerks and voter registrars to be able to count mail ballots more quickly.

Under the ruling, nothing will change for Nevada voters going to the polls in four months to vote in the November election. But officials still encourage voters to send in their mail ballots early, or to put them in drop boxes at voting centers during early voting or on Election Day.

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One dead, four hospitalized after head-on crash on I-15 in Clark County

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One dead, four hospitalized after head-on crash on I-15 in Clark County


LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada Highway Patrol responded to a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 15 near mile marker 94 Sunday evening.

The crash was reported at 6:43 p.m. on June 28.

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A passenger sedan and a pickup truck were involved in the crash. One vehicle was traveling southbound, lost control, crossed through the median, and struck the other vehicle head-on in the northbound travel lane.

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One adult male died at the scene. Two people were transported by ground ambulance, and two others were transported by life flight to a local hospital.

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All northbound I-15 travel lanes were closed at mile marker 94, but have since opened as of Sunday night.

Nevada Highway Patrol said further information will be provided following the preliminary investigation.

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