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April 16, 2025
Nava introduces pilot with Imagine LA: testing an AI chatbot for navigating public benefits
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February 6, 2025
Los Angeles Launches online wildfire relief tool to navigate government aid programs
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The Problem and The Solution
Social Benefit tackles the challenge of navigating the complicated web of public benefits and tax credits, crucial for both safety nets and pathways out of poverty.
The current system’s complexity and fragmentation hinders swift access to aid, compounded by fears of benefit loss upon employment and confusion over tax implications.
Partnering with USC Center for Social Innovation, research uncovered 30 distinct Federal, State and County benefits available in LA County, revealing the labyrinth of applications and compliance processes and highlighting:
The difficulty of identifying, applying for and receiving all benefits and tax credits, which results in both the underutilization of available benefits and time delays in receiving benefits which can exacerbate trauma and homelessness.
The fear and lack of understanding about taxes and tax credits and that they can actually generate significant cash for the low-income tax filer, especially families, means that impactful tax benefits are often not being utilized by the people that need them most.
The phenomenon of “benefits cliffs” when a modest income increase surprisingly triggers a severe benefit loss.
The fear of loss of benefits, and the lack of transparency of how it happens can also prevent people from earning income.
This landscape unwittingly both leaves billions of dollars of critical resources untapped and enmeshes individuals and especially families, in poverty. Social Benefit seeks to provide trusted information, transparency, and accessibility, to empower individuals and case managers with informed decision-making tools to navigate toward economic mobility.
Additionally, by collecting comprehensive benefit use data, Social Benefit aims to help inform policy change that will better provide easy access to immediate temporary relief for severe economic hardship, eliminate benefit cliffs, and better promote financial security and sustainable exits from poverty.
Our Methodology
Over the past 15 years, we’ve helped thousands of families navigate out of homelessness and find financial security with Imagine LA. We’ve seen, first-hand, just how difficult it is to navigate our current public benefits and tax credit system. The current landscape leaves billions of dollars of critical resources on the table, enmeshing individuals and especially families, in poverty.
Amplifi is created to directly tackle the challenge of navigating complicated public benefits and tax credits to help you illuminate pathways toward financial security. We provide trusted information, systemic transparency, and help make economic mobility more accessible to all individuals.
We lean into human-centered design anchored in research and recommendations from USC’s Center of Social Innovation. Our tools are thoughtfully built using vast lived expertise, along with Imagine LA’s decade-plus of experience working alongside families wading through public benefits, and initial pilot feedback.
By collecting comprehensive benefit-use data, Amplifi aims to help inform policy change to improve access to immediate temporary relief for severe economic hardship, eliminate benefit cliffs, and promote financial security and sustainability.
Your service-centered home for trusted information to help you Amplifi your impact.
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The Problem and The Solution
Social Benefit seamlessly navigates the complicated web of public benefits and tax credits. Developing crucial safety nets and pathways out of poverty along the way.
Press Releases
This landscape unwittingly both leaves billions of dollars of critical resources untapped and enmeshes individuals and especially families, in poverty. Social Benefit seeks to provide trusted information, transparency, and accessibility, to empower individuals and case managers with informed decision-making tools to navigate toward economic mobility.
Additionally, by collecting comprehensive benefit use data, Social Benefit aims to help inform policy change that will better provide easy access to immediate temporary relief for severe economic hardship, eliminate benefit cliffs, and better promote financial security and sustainable exits from poverty.
Our Methodology
Over the past 15 years, we’ve helped thousands of families navigate out of homelessness and find financial security with Imagine LA. We’ve seen, first-hand, just how difficult it is to navigate our current public benefits and tax credit system. The current landscape leaves billions of dollars of critical resources on the table, enmeshing individuals and especially families, in poverty.
Amplifi is created to directly tackle the challenge of navigating complicated public benefits and tax credits to help you illuminate pathways toward financial security. We provide trusted information, systemic transparency, and help make economic mobility more accessible to all individuals.
We lean into human-centered design anchored in research and recommendations from USC’s Center of Social Innovation. Our tools are thoughtfully built using vast lived expertise, along with Imagine LA’s decade-plus of experience working alongside families wading through public benefits, and initial pilot feedback.
By collecting comprehensive benefit-use data, Amplifi aims to help inform policy change to improve access to immediate temporary relief for severe economic hardship, eliminate benefit cliffs, and promote financial security and sustainability.
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Our Partners
Funders
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Bank of America
Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation
Reissa Foundation
May and Stanley Smith Foundation
R & S Kayne Foundation
Partners
Mayor’s Fund of Los Angeles
We Are LA Initiative partners
Esperanza Community Housing
St John’s Community Health
GroundWorks Campaigns
Foster Youth partners
Children's Law Center of California
Rightway Foundation
Countywide Benefits Entitlement Services Team (CBEST)
Skidrow Housing Trust
IHOP
Homeless Prevention Unit
The Star Clinic
Department of Health Services (Los Angeles)
Cedars Sinai
LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority)
Children’s Institute
The Whole Child
Pacific Clinics
HOPICS
Community Investment for Families Dept. (City of LA)
Children's Law Center Los Angeles
Cedars Sinai - Community Connect
Let’s Connect
To learn more about Amplifi contact info@benefit-navigator.org or hit the button below.