The Affordable Care Act (ACA) gives people access to health insurance.

Lifeline es un programa de la FCC que ayuda a que los servicios de comunicación sean más asequibles para los consumidores de bajos ingresos.

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In the 1970s, lawmakers put in place an automatic annual benefits increase for Social Security beneficiaries that boosts payments to keep up with inflation.

Prior to that, Congress could authorize increases to keep up with inflation, meaning that sometimes several years would pass before seniors received benefit increases.

SNAP provides benefits to low-income families to supplement their food budget so they can afford nutritious food essential to health and well-being.

The move by the Department of Housing and Urban Development comes as advocates urge HUD to go one step further and formally agree to pay residents’ air conditioning costs regardless of whether they request help.

HUD has long required residents to pay air conditioning bills under a policy established decades ago when cooling was considered a luxury and before global warming pushed temperatures to record highs.

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