General Assistance: disability-related housing and cash support
Resources, agencies and counties · resources
What this source covers
Interim housing, utility and cash help while qualifying adults pursue SSI.
How to use it
Funding type: Public benefit or cost assistance
Who can apply: Adults 18–64 without dependent children, homeless or losing housing within 90 days, meeting severe-disability, OSIPM Presumptive Medicaid and SSI requirements.
Support: Depends on the administering agency’s eligibility and benefit determination.
Availability: The program has a capped caseload and may have a waitlist; screening is not a funded opening.
Timing: Contact staff promptly if housing will be lost within 90 days.
Prepare: Staff-requested housing-status verification; allowed evidence depends on living circumstances.; SSI application and signed Interim Assistance Authorization.
Application steps:
1. Contact a local APD/AAA office and request General Assistance screening.
2. Ask staff to complete a DBL-GA Referral Form (DE4640) to CDDU.
3. Complete disability, housing and financial screening and the required SSI application.
4. Review/sign the interim-assistance agreement and follow SSI appeal requirements.
Provider application route: https://www.oregon.gov/odhs/Pages/office-finder.aspx
Limits and questions to verify
GA payments can be recovered from the initial SSI lump-sum award. A separate GA application is not required under the 2026 manual. The legacy public GA page redirects to a general overview; this guide uses the current program manual and office referral route.
Application-navigation guidance reviewed 2026-10-11 against retained publisher evidence. Original HTML/PDF captures and web-tool extracts are distinguished by evidence type. Source review does not decide eligibility or establish an open application, available funding, an award or a legally verified deadline.
Source: ODHS General Assistance Program Manual and Worker Guide, effective January 1, 2026 · https://www.oregon.gov/odhs/providers-partners/seniors-disabilities/Documents/ga-manual.pdf
Stored review status: source_profile_reviewed. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Issuing source page ↗
Authority boundary: publisher navigation profile not verified legal applicability or program eligibility.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: resource_directory:resources:1670
Source file: data/source-evidence/2026-10-11/financial-assistance/c1773f6d8cea71c514b7a0c30878247a96423ff91f7cccf005c075e681626d2c.pdf
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: cb8d89b16d31fc0521bbeacc5404a09f9c9f03bc23261eda396179f7a7c267c9
Retained source evidence SHA-256: c1773f6d8cea71c514b7a0c30878247a96423ff91f7cccf005c075e681626d2c
Source location: Program eligibility, application preparation, submission route, timing and current-round limits; statewide source; discovered from https://www.oregon.gov/odhs/providers-partners/seniors-disabilities/Documents/ga-manual.pdf
Source checked: 2026-10-11 (access date, not legal effective date)
Stored source content
What this source covers
Interim housing, utility and cash help while qualifying adults pursue SSI.
How to use it
Funding type: Public benefit or cost assistance
Who can apply: Adults 18–64 without dependent children, homeless or losing housing within 90 days, meeting severe-disability, OSIPM Presumptive Medicaid and SSI requirements.
Support: Depends on the administering agency’s eligibility and benefit determination.
Availability: The program has a capped caseload and may have a waitlist; screening is not a funded opening.
Timing: Contact staff promptly if housing will be lost within 90 days.
Prepare: Staff-requested housing-status verification; allowed evidence depends on living circumstances.; SSI application and signed Interim Assistance Authorization.
Application steps:
1. Contact a local APD/AAA office and request General Assistance screening.
2. Ask staff to complete a DBL-GA Referral Form (DE4640) to CDDU.
3. Complete disability, housing and financial screening and the required SSI application.
4. Review/sign the interim-assistance agreement and follow SSI appeal requirements.
Provider application route: https://www.oregon.gov/odhs/Pages/office-finder.aspx
Limits and questions to verify
GA payments can be recovered from the initial SSI lump-sum award. A separate GA application is not required under the 2026 manual. The legacy public GA page redirects to a general overview; this guide uses the current program manual and office referral route.
Application-navigation guidance reviewed 2026-10-11 against retained publisher evidence. Original HTML/PDF captures and web-tool extracts are distinguished by evidence type. Source review does not decide eligibility or establish an open application, available funding, an award or a legally verified deadline.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
No explicit source connection was found. This does not mean there are no relevant authorities.