One state done properly beats fifty done thinly.

Where things stand today

California, researched

In-Home Supportive Services, Paid Family Leave and the state energy assistance program have each been read from the official source and dated. That is why the home page can quote what California actually says about paying a family member, rather than describing it vaguely.

Everywhere, the federal programs

Eleven programs are administered federally on the same terms in every state, so the check runs them wherever you live. Named, because "the federal ones" is not an answer:

• Social Security: Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Disability, and Extra Help with Medicare drug costs.
• Medicare: the Medicare Savings Programs, and Part B cover for wheelchairs, walkers and other equipment used at home.
• Veterans Affairs: Aid and Attendance, disability compensation, the Survivors Pension, the burial allowance, and the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers.
• The Eldercare Locator, the federal line that finds your local Area Agency on Aging anywhere in the country.

One caveat we would rather state than bury. The Medicare Savings Programs are federal but administered by each state, and the income limits differ. The limit our rules hold is California's, so outside California that program is checked against a number that may not be yours. It is still worth applying, and your state decides.

Other states, honestly not yet

If your ZIP code is outside California, you get the eleven above, and the check says plainly that we have not researched the state and county programs for your area. It names your state when it says so.

What you are missing is real and it is worth knowing what it is: the state and county layer, which is where most of the money for day-to-day help actually sits. In California that is In-Home Supportive Services paying a family member, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, the utility discounts, the property tax postponement, and the local Area Agency on Aging listings. Almost every state has an equivalent of each under a different name. We have not read yours yet, and until we have, we will not describe it.

Why not just cover everything now

Because covering everything now would mean covering it badly. Fifty state pages with the nouns swapped is the content farm signature: it looks like coverage, ranks for a while, and contains nothing anyone can act on. Worse, in this category it puts unverified eligibility claims in front of people who will act on them.

So the order is: research a state properly, verify it, date it, then say we cover it. Research once, reuse forever. A rule looked up once serves every family that asks afterwards, which means coverage compounds instead of decaying.

How we choose what to research next

Demand decides. Where families arrive and we have nothing verified, that gap becomes the research queue, in the order the demand actually appeared. We are not guessing which state matters next, and we are not expanding into a state because a domain would rank there.

Last reviewed 28 July 2026