Career MAP aims to ease the transition for families who were formerly homeless and are now trying to advance their careers.
Quanay Lynch with her children, from left, Kenneth Kendall, 11; Kameron Hallman, 8 months; and Kendrick Lynch, 7, in her home in D.C. Lynch says the District's Career MAP program supported her when she feared her children would become homeless. After years of homelessness, Quanay Lynch landed a job with the Transportation Security Administration. At a salary of $58,500, it was the most money she had ever made.
Lynch’s situation plays out across the country in what experts call the “benefits cliff,” referring to low-income families who earn too much to qualify for food, health care, housing, child care and cash benefits, but not enough to cover the loss, putting them at risk of falling back into homelessness.aims to fix that by financially supporting 600 families who were formerly homeless and are at risk of losing those benefits as they advance in their careers.
About half of Career MAP participants receive monthly cash assistance and other benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program for low-income households with children in the District. Roughly 7 in 10 receive food assistance through the District’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program , according to DHS data.
“There are all of these myths about people just don’t want to work or the incentives aren’t strong enough, but it’s actually not the incentives,” Zeilinger said. “It is the financial penalties that people can’t afford.”While homeless and pregnant, Mya Bennett, 27 of Northwest, said she was working two jobs as an administrative assistant for a mechanical contractor and as a home health aide. She was born and raised in the District, but every year it felt harder to stay in the city.
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