Public Benefits for Immigrants
SFHS provides valuable public benefits for immigrants, from CalFresh food assistance and Medi-Cal health coverage to cash assistance through CalWORKs and County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP).
View the public benefits available based on your immigration status and the required documentation.
Note: Every situation is different. Please call the Bay Area Legal Aid Free Advice Hotline (800) 551-5554 to learn how receiving public benefits may affect your immigration status.
Program eligibility by immigration status
- CalFresh (food stamps)
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Refugee Cash Assistance
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion - Only if you have a stamped asylum application
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- CalFresh (food stamps)
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion
- County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP)
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Refugee Cash Assistance
- CalFresh (food stamps)- Yes, if granted parole for at least one year, with some exemptions
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion - Yes, if granted parole for at least one year
- County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP)
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Refugee Cash Assistance
- CalFresh (food stamps) -Depends on status/category on work permit
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion - Depends on status/category on work permit
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Refugee Cash Assistance - Depends on status/category on work permit
- CalFresh (food stamps)
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion - Yes, if you have minor children in the home
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- CalFresh (food stamps)
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion - Yes, if you have minor children in the home
- County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP)
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Refugee Cash Assistance
- Medi-Cal health insurance - Yes, if a California resident
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- CalFresh (food stamps)
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion - Yes, if you have minor children in the home
- County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP)
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Refugee Cash Assistance - Yes, if you are single adults or married couples without minors in the home
- CalFresh (food stamps) - No, but you can apply on behalf of U.S.-born children
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion - No, but you can apply on behalf of U.S.-born children
- County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP) - No, unless catastrophically ill
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- CalFresh (food stamps)
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion
- County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP)
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Refugee Cash Assistance
- CalFresh (food stamps)
- CalWORKs cash assistance for people with children or CalWORKs Diversion
- County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP)
- Medi-Cal health insurance
- Refugee Cash Assistance