that those seeking and maintaining government assistance face for as long as they are eligible. Qualified applicants are often required to travel significant distances to multiple government offices, preparing and submitting piles of nearly identical paperwork to access the different government assistance programs. Even when the application process begins online, the eligible applicant is typically still required to physically follow up with each government office with physical copies, for near identical meetings. As a result, many low-income people are actually unaware of all the government benefits for which they are eligible, reducing the amount of help going to individuals in need by tens of billions of dollars every year. The lines in these offices can seem endless, and sometimes clients need to wait outside, for hours, in the worst kinds of weather. Many offices don’t have weekend or night hours, so an applicant is at risk of losing wages when often their only option is to apply for government help during work hours. (5) Each year, many vital government programs go underutilized because eligible beneficiaries are hindered by obtrusive, time consuming, and repetitive application barriers. In 2015, according to the Department of Agriculture, 15 percent of all people eligible for supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP), 25 percent of the working poor eligible for SNAP, and 55 percent of seniors over 60 who were eligible failed to receive it. (6) The United States has hundreds of thousands of nonprofit groups providing high quality and much needed social services, but it is nearly impossible for struggling people to determine which of those organizations provides services they need, whether the organization is conveniently located, and for which services they are eligible. If they do determine that a nonprofit (or multiple nonprofits) could help, they need to take yet more time to visit each one. (7) Since many government and nonprofit programs require frequent reapplications and recertifications, a