Contact DES regarding Nutrition, Cash, and Medical Assistance Benefits

Chat or email: Available from the Health-e-Arizona Plus website. You can also send application form here.

Please contact the FIS Customer Service Hotline at 1-888-997-9333 (TTY 1-800-367-8939), such as reporting the EBT card that was lost or stolen, checking the balance of the EBT card, etc.

To get one of the following, call (602) 774-5523 ​​(Monday to Friday from 8 am to 5 pm) or e-mail Protect by e-mail.

Help people with disabilities receive nutrition, cash, medical assistance policy aid

Public aid offices outside Arizona should request information via email [email protection] or fax (602) 353-5746. To leave a message about the status of your request, please call (602) 771-2047.

Health and nutritional benefits include access to affordable healthcare. Food and nutrition programs can provide funds, often referred to as food stamps, to make food more accessible. Provide additional nutritional support through the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program to enable pregnant women and young children to use healthy food options for growth and development

Function 600 includes offering cash or near-cash aid (housing, nutrition, energy etc. assistance) to the people of the low income, providing various benefits to specific retirees, disabled people and unemployed people Includes income protection program. The housing support program accounts for the largest proportion of discretionary funds in this function. Major federal welfare programs for this function include unemployment insurance, trade adjustment aid income support, food stamps, temporary aid to poor families, foster care and supplementary security income. Federal and other retirement and disability programs account for about one-third of this function

Household income includes transfers of cash income such as post-tax profit, social security, disability allowance and temporary aid (TANF) to poor families, and supplemental dietary supplement program (SNAP), formerly the food voucher program The benefits close to cash are included. This does not include payment by capital gains or any other non-cash transfer such as women, infants, children (WIC) nutrition programs, low-income household energy support programs (LIHEAP), housing assistance etc. Taxes are measured using the TAXSIM model of the National Economic Research Bureau, including a partial estimate of federal, state and employee social security and health insurance taxes, and tax credit values ​​such as income tax credits (EITC) It will be. The poverty rate is calculated by dividing pre-tax income for each household by the corresponding poverty line. Average estimate of households of all sizes