Benefits-Check-Up Arizona Goes Statewide

Arizonans 55 & older or disabled are eligible for hundreds of free & subsidized benefits from the federal & state government, but most don’t know it. Last year, older Arizonans left over $260 million dollars in benefits unclaimed!

BenefitsCheckUp Arizona (www.benefitscheckup.org/link/AZ) is changing that.

BenefitsCheckUp Arizona now helps qualified citizens across Arizona, find out what benefits they can get, & helps get them!

Gov. Napolitano implemented the BenefitsCheckUp program in May, 2004, to assist older Arizonans so they are never put in the position of having to make a choice between paying their rent or buying food. The program, piloted in Maricopa & Mohave Counties, has been hugely successful. It is now expanding to sites across the state.

The website & 800 telephone number are designed to help seniors & the disabled to discreetly, safely & quickly check more than 1,300 different benefits they may be eligible for including groceries, shelter costs, prescription drugs & health care (They don’t even have to identify themselves). The on-line survey only takes 30 minutes to complete. To get started, citizens should go to the website at www.benefitscheckup.org/link/AZ or call 1-800-432-4040 to get help with a free screening at an agency nearby.

For more info on BenefitsCheckUp contact Karla Averill from the Governor’s Office for Children, Youth & Families at (602) 364-2250.