Single Stop numbers:
- Grand Street Settlement's Single Stop program served 612
households in the past year's reporting period
- Grand Street Settlement connected more than half of all
of those families enrolled for new government-subsidized benefits,
three times the portfolio average. Specifically, 53 percent of
participants or 326 households, received benefits totaling more than
$2.4 million
- More than 250 individuals were enrolled in Medicaid, with
Grand Street Settlement undertaking the remarkable habit of bussing
people to and from the local Human Resources Administration (H.R.A.)
office to ensure that the application and enrollment process went off
without a hitch
- The typical Grand Street Settlement Single Stop participant
is a single, unemployed female, over the age of 40 with no
dependents. Indeed 45 percent of visitors were older than 51 and
more than 20 percent were 65 or older
- Grand Street Settlement’s Single Stop site provided legal
services worth, we estimate, $989,000 to Single Stop families (63 x
$6,000 housing + 23 x $12,000 immigration + 20 x $1,000 consumer + 25 x
$12,000 benefits resolution + 15 x $1,000 family cases)
- The Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union
(L.E.SP.F.C.U.) spent two days a week on-site at Grand Street
Settlement, working in collaboration with the Single Stop staff to
pre-screen eligible tax refund recipients.
- More than 240 individuals were served with nearly all of
them also receiving complete in-depth benefits assessments and
analyses.
- Fifty-three were new/first-time filers, and 191 were
repeat filers. All in, that’s more $87,000 in tax benefits attributed
to Grand Street.
- This year Grand Street Settlement doubled the number of
program participants who identify themselves as Asian, and expanded
services to a Chinese-speaking population with the addition of a Single
Stop intake specialist who speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English.
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