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Public benefits recipients deserve transparency about benefits cliffs - we help organizations provide it

What’s a benefits cliff?

A benefits cliff (cliff effect) is when someone earns a dollar or two more an hour, but as a result, loses public benefits that were worth much more than the income increase. Workers are earning more to make net less.

 

We’re changing things for workers receiving public benefits that are afraid of this financial catastrophe affecting them.

The world today

No one knows if they will hit a benefits cliff, until after it has already happened. Many public benefits recipients make financially conservative decisions out of fear of hitting a benefits cliff.

The future

Leap Fund creates tools, education, and data for public benefit, direct service, employment, & policy sectors across the country. We provide on-the-ground solutions to tackle benefits cliffs now, while we push for policy change to eradicate them in the future.

Leap Fund has a full offering of tools and resources that inform conversations, provide transparency, and expose benefits cliffs, empowering informed decision-making.

 

We offer a benefits cliff calculator & training for coaches

Our calculator predicts cliffs by showing how a change in income or household size will impact someone’s benefits and net income, and our training tools up coaches to navigate these nuanced conversations.

 
 
 
 

1 in 3

clients discovered that they will hit a benefits cliff through Leap Fund’s tool in 2023

55%

Of clients who knew about benefit cliffs reported that they had made decisions out of fear of hitting one in 2023

 
 

Feedback from our Partners

 
Leap Fund’s Program provided new ways to discuss an issue that has been important in our client coaching with clearly understandable results and actionable next steps.
— NEW YORK-BASED HOSPITAL EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
Leap Fund helped participants make an informed financial decision...and it also gave participants a base to negotiate future hourly wages.
— ILLINOIS-BASED FINANCIAL COACHING PROGRAM
 

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