Find food, healthcare, housing, and utility assistance in your state — built for real people on real phones.
Choose your state to see programs, income limits, and a ready-to-send help email — takes about 3 minutes.
📍 Don't see your state? These national resources work everywhere:
More states coming soon. Use the 211 number above for same-day help anywhere in the US.
AccessFirst is an independent, noncommercial resource. We don't represent any government agency, collect your data, or make money from this site. We built it because finding benefit programs is harder than it should be — the information exists, but it's scattered across dozens of government websites with confusing language.
Every link on this site goes directly to official government or nonprofit program pages. We don't intermediate your application — we just help you find the door.
These programs exist because you — and people like you — paid into them through taxes. Using them is not a handout. It's using what you're entitled to.