Accessing Benefits / Acceso a los Beneficios

Links, resources, and information to make sure you get all benefits you’re entitled to

Everyone deserves to feel financially secure. But sometimes money is tight. Or you may be concerned that you’re not getting paid all of your wages. Check out the resources below for information about accessing benefits and asserting your rights as a worker.

1. To start the benefits screening process with the CASH Campaign of Maryland, visit: https://cashmd.org/benefits-screening/. The CASH Campaign can work with you to make sure you get all the benefits you’re entitled to – from housing to food to Medicaid, and more.
2. For a one-page summary on the CASH Campaign’s benefits screening, click here.
3. For help with applying for SNAP (food stamps) and report EBT theft, check out this list of SNAP outreach partners.
4. For help with SNAP benefits, you can also visit https://www.mdhungersolutions.org/get-help/ and call Maryland Hunger Solutions at 1-866-821-5552 for an appointment.
5. Know your rights: Getting and Keeping Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
6. Know your rights: Reimbursement of stolen food and cash benefits
7. Know your rights: What are your appeal rights if you disagree with DSS (social services)?
8. Know your rights: The right to free interpretation & translation from state & local agencies in Maryland
9. Know your rights: Public Benefits for Non-Citizens
10. Know your rights: Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA): Time Limit & Hardship Exemption
11. Know your rights: Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA): Rights of Families Experiencing a Crisis or Homelessness
12. Know your rights: Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA): work program, good cause and exemptions
13. For information about the CASH Campaign’s free tax preparation help, visit https://cashmd.org/free-tax-preparationresources/.
14. Workers’ Rights and Benefits: A training on workers’ wage rights (and how to assert them) and benefits (and how to get them)
15. For a one-page summary of common violations of employee rights in Maryland, click here.

This project is supported by the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy under Grant Award Number VOCA-2025-0009. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the State or Federal agency.

Enlaces, recursos e información para asegurarse de que obtiene todos los beneficios a los que tiene derecho

Todos merecen sentirse financieramente seguros. Pero a veces el dinero es apretado. O puede que le preocupe que no le paguen todos sus salarios. Consulte los recursos a continuación para obtener información sobre el acceso a los beneficios y la afirmación de sus derechos como trabajador.

1. Para comenzar el proceso de selección de beneficios con la Campaña CASH de Maryland, visite: https://cashmd.org/benefits-screening/. La Campaña CASH puede trabajar con usted para asegurarse de que obtenga todos los beneficios a los que tiene derecho, desde vivienda hasta alimentos, Medicaid y más.
2. Para obtener un resumen de una página sobre la evaluación de beneficios de la Campaña CASH, haga clic aquí.
3. Para obtener ayuda con los beneficios de SNAP (cupones de alimentos), visite https://www.mdhungersolutions.org/get-help/ y llame a Maryland Hunger Solutions al 1-866-821-5552 para una cita.
4. Conozca sus derechos: Obtener y Mantener Sus Beneficios en El Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria (SNAP/Estampillas de Comida)
5. Reembolso de beneficios publicos robados: Conosca sus derechos
6. Conozca sus derechos: Ud. Piensa Que El Departamento de Servicios Sociales Comitieron Un Error: ¿Cuáles Son Sus Derechos de Apelacíon?
7. Conozca sus derechos: Derecho a la interpretación gratuita y traducción del estado y de agencias locales en Maryland
8. Conozca sus derechos: Públicos Beneficios para Los No Cuidadanos
9. Conozca sus derechos: Asistencia Temporal En Efectivo (TCA): Limite de Tiempo y Exencion por Dificultad
10. Conozca sus derechos: El Programa de Asistencia Temporal en Efectivo (TCA): Derechos de Las Familias Que Experimentan Una Crisis o La Falta de Vivienda
11. Conozca sus derechos: El Programa de Asistencia Temporal en Efectivo (TCA): Derechos en el Programa de Trabajo
12. Para obtener información sobre la ayuda gratuita de preparación de impuestos de la campaña CASH, visite https://cashmd.org/free-tax-preparationresources/.
13. Derechos y beneficios de los trabajadores: Una capacitación sobre los derechos salariales de los trabajadores (y cómo hacerlos valer) y los beneficios (y cómo obtenerlos)
14. Para obtener un resumen de una página de violaciones comunes de los derechos de los empleados en Maryland, haga clic aquí.

The Prisoners’ Rights Project seeks to end unjust and inhumane pretrial detention.

Whether a person stays in jail before trial or is released should not depend on how much money they have. When someone can’t afford to pay bail, they may sit in jail for weeks or months. In the meantime, they might lose their job, and their family loses a breadwinner. In order to get out sooner, they might take a plea deal, even if they’re not guilty.

The Public Justice Center’s work to address the devastating effects of bail bonds is an integral part of the coordinated effort of the Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland (CSJM). We pursue pretrial justice that will:

• Eliminate unnecessary arrests and detentions that disrupt and destabilize families and communities,
• Severely restrict pretrial detention (consistent with the presumption of innocence and the fact that the vast majority of those charged pose no threat to the public or flight risk),
• Expand reliance on community-based supports that aid people in making their court appearances and remaining law-abiding while awaiting court,
• End secured bail, and
• End other pretrial practices that have a disparate impact on people and communities of color.

Impact

In addition to working on bail reform, the Public Justice Center has spurred changes in how people are treated while locked up pretrial.

Health care in pretrial detention in Baltimore

Our efforts forced an overhaul of the Baltimore City Detention Center’s health care system and major improvements to the facilities, including closure of the oldest facilities and new accommodations for people with disabilities. We are monitoring the jail’s progress in improving its health care system and facilities and continue to press aggressively to require system improvements to achieve a constitutional health care system as swiftly as possible.

Treatment of protesters in police custody

We represented members of the community organizing group Baltimore Bloc and others who were among 65 people unlawfully arrested and detained at a peaceful protest held during Artscape 2016. In a settlement in fall 2018, the Baltimore City Police Department agreed to significant policy reforms to respect rights to free speech and protest and treatment of people in police custody.