About

You're not broken. The system is.

Shelley, founder of My Benefits Buddy

Shelley built My Benefits Buddy because she's lived this. She experienced housing insecurity firsthand and found her way back through an intensive outpatient program called the PATH Project.

From there she became a psychiatric case manager — and watched the same families get bounced between agencies that didn't talk to each other, told to "apply online" when they had no laptop, or denied benefits they actually qualified for because no one had explained the right way to ask.

This screener is the tool she wishes she'd had on day one: friendly, fast, and built to point you to the help that actually exists in your community.