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Apply For Benefits

Welcome! Please click one of the buttons to tell us what you would like to do. Then click the Next button at the bottom of the page.

	Start a new application for Health care coverage, SNAP, Cash Assistance, and/or Medicare Savings Program. For most people, it will take approximately 30 minutes to fill out the application.
	Keep working on an application that you have already started.
	Check the status or view an application that you have already submitted.
	Manage My Case.
	File or Manage Appeal.

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