Learn about Federal changes to Medicaid and Food Assistance Programs..
Michigan's Women, Infants & Children program, providing supplemental nutrition, breastfeeding information, and other resources for healthy mothers & babies.
Information on the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance, SSI, Refugee, and other cash assistance.
If you cannot afford child care, payment assistance is available.
Children's Special Health Care Services information and FAQ's.
Information on assistance with home repairs, heat and utility bills, relocation, home ownership, burials, home energy, and eligibility requirements.
Information on the Food Assistance Program, eligibility requirements, and other food resources.
Information about the health care programs available through Medicaid and how to qualify.
Our migrant program works with a number of organizations to provide services for Michigan’s migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
A federal program which helps persons admitted into the U.S. as refugees to become self-sufficient after their arrival.
Universal caseload, or task-based processing, is a different way of handling public assistance cases.
Information on the Children's Protective Services Program, child abuse reporting procedures, and help for parents in caring for their children.
Information on adoption programs, adoption resources, locating birth parents and obtaining information from adoption records.
Information on Adult Protective Services, Independent Living Services, Adult Community Placement Services, and HIV/AIDS Support Services.
Information on child support services for participants and partners.
Programs for healthy children & families, including immunization, lead poisoning prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and many others.
Information on the Children's Foster Care program and becoming a Foster Parent.
Information about the Michigan law that requires certain information be made available to a woman who is seeking an abortion at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure.
Information on treatment and services for juvenile offenders, success stories, and more.
Child Welfare Medical and Behavioral Health Resources
MDHHS and partners support a continuum of prevention services. The continuum is inclusive of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities. Visit this page to learn more.
Information about injury and violence prevention programs in Michigan
Information on Safe Sleep for your baby, how to protect your baby's life.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Environmental Health Bureau (EHB) uses the best available science to reduce, eliminate, or prevent harm from environmental, chemical, and physical hazards.
Information, sources of data and resources to support Firearm Injury Prevention efforts across the state of Michigan.
Medical Resources for Child Protection
Serves as liaison and provides funding to Michigan’s 45 local health departments.
Adult Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
Information and resources for development of Plans of Safe Care.
Multicultural Health
Prevention of diseases & conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many others.
Home to an array of public health programs, initiatives and interventions aimed at improving the health and well-being of women, infants, families and communities.
Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records
Boards and Commissions
Bridge Card Participation Information on Electronic Benefits for clients and businesses, lists of participating retailers and ATMs, and QUEST.
Provider Payments Information on the direct deposit of State of Michigan payments into a provider's bank account.
Information on How to Bid, Requests for Proposals, forms and publications, contractor rates, and manuals.
Information & resources for Community and Faith-Based partners
Information on DHS Applications and Forms grouped by category.
State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP)
Health Care Providers
Licensing information for Adult Foster Care and Homes for the Aged, Child Day Care Facilities, Child Caring Institutions, Children's Foster Care Homes, Child Placing Agencies, Juvenile Court Operated Facilities and Children's or Adult Foster Care Camps.
Michigan Statewide Systems of Care
Information on the grant awarded for the State Innovation Model Proposal
Protect MiFamily -Title IV-E Waiver
Offers resources for agencies who operate the Weatherization Assistance Program in the state of Michigan
Information on resources in your community and volunteer recruitment and training, and services provided at local DHS offices.
Information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
Equal Opportunity, Legal Base, Laws and Reporting Welfare Fraud information.
A variety of reports & statistics for programs and services.
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Clients are issued a Michigan Bridge Card to purchase certain food products and access cash benefits at a number of retailers and ATMs throughout the state.
Contact a customer service representative toll-free at 888-678-8914 if you:
Customer service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week (Spanish and Arabic service is available). If you are deaf, deafblind or hard of hearing or speech-impaired, call the Michigan Relay Center at 7-1-1.
EBT Fraud Replacement Benefits
If your food and/or cash benefits have been stolen due to EBT/Bridge Card fraud, including card cloning, skimming and other fraudulent activities such as telephone, text and email phishing schemes, you may be eligible for fraud replacement benefits. Fraud replacement benefits for food benefits are available only from Oct. 1, 2022 through Dec. 20, 2024. Contact your local MDHHS Office for more information.
If benefits were stolen due to another reason, such as your Bridge Card was stolen, benefits were used by someone you know, you gave your card and/or PIN to someone, etc., replacement benefits are not available.
When you get your Bridge Card, instructions will be included. In the meantime, you can check out the following resources.
The How to Use Your Michigan Bridge Card or How to User Your Michigan Bridge Card (Spanish) booklets cover all aspects of how to use the Bridge Card at retailer locations and ATMs. They explain how to care for the card and what you should do if the card is damaged, lost, or stolen.
Participating businesses where you can use your Bridge Card:
Per USDA FNS federal guidelines (7 CFR 272.2), if you do not use any of your FAP benefits for nine months (274 days), they will be expunged, or removed from your account. This means the FAP benefits will no longer be available to spend and will be removed from your EBT card permanently.
Use your EBT card immediately to make a purchase using your FAP benefits. Then make sure you are using your FAP benefits at least once every nine months (274 days). FAP benefits are removed after nine months (274) days of non-use.
We will notify you 30 days before your benefits will expire. You will receive the notice informing you that you have not used your FAP benefits in nine months (274 days). The notice will give you a date by which, you need to use your card by. If you use your EBT FAP card prior to the date your benefits will not expunge.
As a result of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the Farm Bill) the length of time FAP benefits can remain unused in an EBT account before being expunged decreased from one year (365 days) to nine months (274 days).
You can log into the ebtEDGE website at www.ebtEDGE.com and create an account which will allow you to check your balance at any time. You may also call the EBT Customer Service at 1-888-678-8914 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to check your FAP balance.
Call EBT Customer Service at 1-888-678-8914, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to report a lost card or if you need a new EBT card.
FAP benefits can be used at participating retailers, farmers markets and certain online retailers.
Yes, any FAP benefits including PEBT, unused for nine months (274 days) is subject to expungement.
Pandemic EBT benefits are issued using a process different from FAP. For concerns with PEBT benefit expungement, call the customer service line at 1-833-905-0028.