DC Guaranteed Income Coalition 2025-26 Platform

DC’s only publicly-funded guaranteed income pilot was 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 and ended in 2025, with an initial grant of $1.5 million. Although SFSF concluded payments to its first cohort in 2023, the DC Council allocated $1.5 or $1 million of funding for various years of the program during its time.

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.