Spice Up Your Work with SALT: the State Asset Limit Toolkit

Many state-administered public benefit programs have asset policies that restrict eligibility to households with minimal assets. Recognizing working families’ need for savings and emergency funds, a growing number of states are now reforming asset-limit policies in light of welfare reform and work-first policies that promote self-sufficiency.

SALT, the State Asset Limit Toolkit, is for advocates and policymakers who seek to reform or eliminate state asset limits. In SALT, administrative rules, bills, laws, public comments, and other advocacy materials relating to asset-limit reform in state-administered benefit programs, as well as official analysis, media coverage, and information regarding the implementation and results of asset-limit reform, are organized by state and by program. SALT has advocacy materials that can be tailored to your state’s needs. SALT highlights states that have proposed or adopted administrative or statutory changes in asset limits as well as states that have higher than average asset limits or categorical eligibility for food stamps.

Follow this link to access SALT.

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