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The Tahoe Family Solutions Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program provides free income tax preparation and financial education for families below 250% of poverty. The DWSS is developing financial education and asset development training for NEON program participants. TANF Purpose: 2) End the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage; and 4) Encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. These are pro-family activities. Type: TANF and State MOE. 18.7 Non-Recurrent Short-Term Benefits (#15) Non-recurrent short-term MOE benefit expenditures for unemployed or underemployed families for emergency assistance and diversion payments, emergency housing and short-term homelessness assistance, emergency food aid, short-term utilities payments, burial assistance, clothing allowances, and back-to-school payments in the form of cash, vouchers, subsidies, emergency food aid, or similar forms of benefits for a crisis situation or episode of need and excluded from assistance on that basis. The DWSS has three non-recurrent short-term programs. The Self Sufficiency Grant (SSG) provides a one-time lump-sum payment designed to meet immediate employment needs until regular income is received from employment, child support or other ongoing sources; TANF Loan is a temporary program for individuals and families that have a documented future source of income expected to be able to repay the loan; and the Temporary Assistance Program is a payment designed to meet an immediate episode of need for no more than four months per episode. These benefit programs are designed to meet an immediate episode of need and to divert low income TANF eligible families from ongoing TANF welfare assistance. Other examples follow. Nevada Fund for Energy Assistance and Conservation provides heating, cooling, and weatherization assistance to needy families under the Nevada Energy Assistance and Weatherization programs to ensure family homes are safe and secure and that children are protected from extreme conditions. Unemployed and underemployed families are provided temporary assistance that is limited to a one-time per year benefit. The financial eligibility criteria for UEC is 150% of the federal poverty level. The UEC state funds were authorized by state legislature in 2001 with program benefits beginning in 2002. The Family Promise Bridge Housing program provides short-term housing for low income homeless families under 50% of the federal poverty level to fill the gap from homelessness to finding permanent housing. Catholic Charities provides short-term assistance to unemployed/under employed families under 185% of the federal poverty level that are in a crisis, emergency situation, or for an episode of need situation by providing emergency food aid.