Food Previously known as Food Stamps, the Federal SNAP program provides low-income households monthly benefits to purchase food.
Housing Cash assistance program based on income and resources. Assistance can be issued on an ongoing basis or to meet an emergency need for housing or heat/utilities
Social Services We provide benefits and services to sustain families and individuals and assist them to achieve independence.
Medicaid Medicaid is an income-based assistance program for the medically indigent. Income and resource standards vary depending on age, health, household size, and certain household expenditures.
Childcare Subsidies can help pay child care providers (formerly "day care providers") for the time that parents/caretakers are at work or engaged in other qualifying activity, plus reasonable travel time each way.
Kinship and Foster Care Through the Department of Social Services, non-parent caregivers in Tompkins County may be eligible for various supports to help provide for the needs of the children in their care.
Aging Services The Tompkins County Office for the Aging is your point of entry into aging services available in Tompkins County.
Human Rights The Tompkins County Office of Human Rights (TCOHR) is a County department which facilitates the filing of human rights complaints with the New York State Division of Human Rights (NYSDHR).
Veterans Tompkins County Department of Veterans Services exists to connect local Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces – and their families – with federal, state, and local resources.
Family Court Representation Receives and reviews all applications for free attorney services and determines eligibility.