DC Guaranteed Income Coalition 2024-25 Platform

DC’s only publicly-funded guaranteed income pilot is Strong Families, Strong Futures, a direct cash assistance program
supporting new and expecting mothers in Wards 5, 7, and 8 that was launched in 2022 with an initial grant of $1.5
million. Although SFSF concluded payments to its first cohort in 2023, the DC Council allocated $1.5 million of funding
for another year of the program in 2023.

We call on the DC Council to open SFSF to residents of all wards and to commission a robust evaluation of
SFSF that would explore the theory that providing cash positively impacts perinatal and infant health outcomes.