In this policy paper released by the co-conveners of the Coalition to Promote Access and Opportunity - Single Stop USA, CLASP, and First Focus - the authors argue that a proposal included in the President's FY11 budget to raise asset limits to $10,000 for certain benefit programs would simplify program rules and allow more families to access needed help while accumulating modest assets.

In an effort to learn more about the barriers clients face in accessing benefits and solicit ideas about how to improve access, we conducted a survey of Single Stop site coordinators. This report summarizes the findings and includes proposed policy recommendations - including simplifying enrollment processes and promoting a more customer-centered system of supports.

Single Stop USA submitted public comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's Enrollment Workgroup and Standards Committee (created by the Affordable Care Act) that support ensuring a broader role for multiple benefits access through health care technology and the exchanges.

The White House recently hosted a conference to highlight the Administration's work to address economic opportunity and security, which included a panel on best practices and benefits access and highlighted Single Stop USA and others. In these remarks, Julie Kashen describes how Single Stop cuts across silos and creates a client-centered integrated system through our program model, strategic initiatives, and policy work.

In preparation for TANF reauthorization, Single Stop conducted focus groups with low-income individuals seeking or receiving public assistance. This testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee outlines key findings from the focus groups and identifies policy recommendations, including serving a greater share of eligible families, providing meaningful job training and education, and increasing benefit levels.

This paper argues that a national Single Stop-style federal program could dramatically improve existing antipoverty efforts, by helping millions of American families lift themselves into the middle class and making government work more efficiently.

In APHSA's Policy & Practice, Elisabeth Mason and Julie Kashen write that state human service organizations can partner with community-based organizations and community colleges to develop the means and method for effective, efficient, and affordable benefits delivery.

In the 2008 edition of Big Ideas for Children, Elisabeth Mason and Julie Kashen argue that when accessed and delivered comprehensively, public benefits and services stabilize families and allow them to ultimately achieve self-sufficiency.

Applying the Single Stop approach nationwide to help children in poverty is one of the Democratic Policy committee's "Fresh 50" ideas for addressing the nation's challenges.