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Photo Left to Right: Camille Conaway, Jill Bauman, Kapria Lee, Rachel Cook At the APHSA Economic Mobility and Well-Being Conference, it was inspiring to see the worlds of benefit administration and workforce development come together to tackle the challenges of HR1 and grapple with the tough questions: How do we simultaneously minimize error rates and administrative burden, while promoting economic mobility in a landscape full of benefit cliffs and growing complexity? New app

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HR 1 Changes the Benefits landscape

Announcing Amplifi's partnership with Tipping Point to expand to the Bay Area!

Benefit Navigator: Turning Intake Into Immediate Action

Thanks to the 200+ people who joined the PolicyEngine / Benefit Access session. Did you miss the Summit? Email us at info@amplifi.org for a copy of the slides! Here's what we talked about: 🟢 Benefit Navigator’s impact in the field – 70+ Agencies, 639 Case Workers uncovering and tapping $230+ Million in benefits and tax credits. 🟢 New HR1 rules making benefits access exponentially more complex and adding “Keeping Your Benefits” to the case workers / clients priority list. 🟢

Meet Lera, our AI-powered chatbot!

Reflections from Amplifi staff member after visiting 15 family source centers across Los Angeles County.

We are thrilled to announce that Amplifi will be featured at the Code for America Summit 2026 in a session titled "PolicyEngine's Open-Source Ecosystem: From Policy Design to Benefit Access." The session will explore how Policy Engine's open-source tools are transforming benefits access and policy evaluation and design - and why HR 1 recertification requirements demand our attention now. Our panel will feature four organizations whose work sits at the heart of the challenge

What Is HR1? H.R.1 — officially known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA) — is federal legislation passed by Congress in July 2025. It reshapes who qualifies for federal food assistance and healthcare insurance, and how often recipients must prove that eligibility. You may know these programs by their California names: SNAP is CalFresh (formerly "food stamps"), Medicaid is MediCal, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace is Covered California. "Informed, proactive act

Frustrated by a complicated public benefits system that makes it hard for families to get help, this nonprofit pivoted to tech, launching new online tool.

A chatbot tool launched in Los Angeles County looks to help case workers more quickly and efficiently get vulnerable residents linked to social services.

Orange Slices, Press Release We’re excited to announce that Nava Labs has partnered with Imagine LA — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to ending family poverty and homelessness in Los Angeles — to pilot an assistive chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM). The chatbot is designed to connect case managers to trusted information about benefits and tax credits that could support the people they serve. This work builds on over a year of research and feedback from diverse s

The city of Los Angeles has launched an online tool to help people affected by recent wildfires.

Los Angeles launched its Disaster Relief Navigator tool online to help victims of the recent wildfires make a personalized recovery plan and connect them with resources.