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Refugee Assistance & Services
The Refugee Assistance Program is a federally funded program which helps persons admitted into the U.S. as refugees to become self-sufficient after their arrival. Temporary refugee cash assistance is available to eligible refugees who do not qualify for cash assistance (through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program), Supplemental Security Income or Medicaid.
Refugee Cash and Medical Assistance
The Refugee Assistance Program is a federally funded program which helps persons admitted into the U.S. as refugees to become self-sufficient after their arrival. Temporary refugee cash assistance is available to eligible refugees who do not qualify for cash assistance (through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program), Supplemental Security Income or Medicaid.
Eligibility for refugee cash and medical assistance is available for up to eight months after entry into the U.S., or date asylum was granted, if you have one of the following immigration statuses:
- Refugee or Asylee.
- Cuban/Haitian entrant.
- Amerasian.
- Victim of trafficking.
- Iraqi or Afghan Special Immigrant VISA (SIV) holders.
Immigration status is determined by officials from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Eligibility
Asset Limits | Income | Residency Requirements | |
The cash asset limit is $3,000. Assets are cash or any property you own.
Assets such as your vehicles and personal belongings are not counted. |
Examples of countable income are:
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The following residency requirements apply:
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Refugee Health Screening and Health Promotion
Health Screening
MDHHS Office of Refugee Services partners with local health departments and clinics in each of the seven major geographic resettlement areas of the state to provide health screenings to newly arriving refugees on a per capita basis.
- Arab American and Chaldean Council
- Serves Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties
- Calhoun County Health Department
- Ingham County Health Department
- Kent County Health Department
- Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County
- ?Services Washtenaw County
Health Promotion Services
The program provides a preventive health care liaison in each contracted agency to ensure each refugee needing referral or follow-up medical services will get the necessary assistance and education.
- Arab American and Chaldean Council
- Services Macomb, Oakland And Wayne Counties
- Ingham County Health Department
- Serves Ingham and Eaton Counties
- Kent County Health Department
- Serves Kent County
Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) program provides foster care services to unaccompanied refugee, asylee, trafficked, and special immigrant juvenile youth. The URM Program helps unaccompanied minors develop appropriate skills to enter adulthood and to achieve social self-sufficiency. Ingham and Kent DHHS partner with the Office of Global Michigan in oversight of the URM programs.
URM Providers:
Other Refugee Assistance & Services
The State Refugee Coordinator’s office and programming (including Employment & other Social Services, Educational Services, and URM services) is housed within the Office of Global Michigan in the Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity. Information can be found at: Global Michigan.