Welfare Department

The Town of Milford Welfare Department provides interim, temporary emergency assistance for low-income residents through a voucher system.   Requests may be made through a written application process, including an initial assessment intake.  Eligibility is based on a financial review of basic needs and available applicant resources. 

The Welfare Application can be found below

In addition to the application, you may be asked to provide the following documentation:

• Social security numbers and photo ids
• Documentation for children
• Car registration
• Rental agreement/verification
• Bank statements for all members of household
• Bills including rent receipts, utilities, telephone, cable, storage unit, doctor/medical bills, car, insurance
• Paycheck stubs for the previous 4 weeks
• Any other source of income including but not limited to tax returns, child support, or gifts from family/friends
• Documentation from other agencies such as DHHS, Fuel Assistance, Social Security, Unemployment
• Medical notes when appropriate

Please note that this is not an all-inclusive list and Welfare Director may ask for items not included above. In addition, applicants have a specific timeframe by which to provide documents. The Welfare Director will provide this date and the list of items required to the applicant. No late documentation is accepted.

If you are in need of long-term assistance such as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), foster care, disability grants, Medicaid, food stamps, and more, you may contact the New Hampshire Dept. of Health and Human Services, 603-883-7726, or nheasy.nh.gov.

Allowable vs. Non-Allowable Expenses

It is the applicant’s responsibility to utilize any available benefits or resources to reduce the need for general assistance. The Welfare Department will direct the application to apply for all other resources and also will require the applicant to use current resources to meet basic needs in order to reduce the need for general assistance.

While working with Welfare, you will be required to use your earned and unearned resources for basic needs only. These are;

·         Rent/Mortgage

·         Food

·         Nonfood hygiene products

Diapers

Utilities

Prescriptions

·         Telephone

·         Internet

Car Payment

Insurance Payments

·         Note that the town uses either the Federal SNAP guidelines or Yearly Financial Guidelines established by the Welfare Department.

As a condition of assistance, you will be required to first use all available resources as directed to meet your basic needs as outlined above. Should you choose to use your resources for other than basic needs those amounts will be considered available to you, and assistance will be reduced accordingly; a sanction or denial may be issued.

Future Conditions for Assistance

Please note that when an applicant applies, whether they receive assistance or not, conditions for consideration for future assistance may be assigned to the applicant. These can include, but are not limited to, applying for low-income housing, weekly job searches, applying for state and federal benefits such as fuel assistance, food stamps, unemployment, SSI, SSDI, APTD or cash assistance. 

Applicants may be required to register for a job search account through the state unemployment office as well.

These conditions are meant to create self-sufficiency for the applicant so that financial need through the Town of Milford can be reduced or eliminated.

Email Susan Gorman at sgorman@milford.nh.gov

Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday:  8:30am to 1:30pm

Phone:
(603) 249-0672

Address:
SHARE Center
One Columbus Ave Milford, NH 03055