U.S. Government Assistance and Benefits is a privately-owned and operated online guide to the many and varied U.S. government assistance programs and benefits, including popular entitlement programs such as Social Security retirement and disability, Medicare, Medicaid, and others. Among the assistance programs that are detailed in this comprehensive guide are unemployment, SNAP (food stamps), WIC, Medicaid, government-funded housing, and many others. In addition to providing an overview of all of these programs and government benefits, the site offers contact information for local government offices, along with instructions for applying for various assistance programs, eligibility criteria, and other information related to these processes. Regularly-updated articles also follow legislative events that are varied, from changes in minimum wage laws to updates on the government assistance programs around which the site is based.