Notes

¹ The office where you apply for Medicaid, Food Stamps or TANF may be listed in the phone book as the Department of Social Services or Human Services, or the Welfare Office. We refer to it here as the social services office.

² Technically, you can restart your SSI checks as long as your SSI has not been suspended longer than 12 consecutive months. Depending on the date of your arrest this can be a little more than one year. However, it can never be 14 months or more.

³ Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

⁴ Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.

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