You can use ABE to apply on-line for healthcare, SNAP, cash assistance and the Medicare Savings programs with the State of Illinois. You can also apply for healthcare and SNAP over the phone by calling the ABE Customer Call Center

Start a new application for Health care coverage, SNAP, Cash Assistance, and/or Medicare Savings Program.For most people, it will take approximately 30 minutes to fill out the application.

You are about to begin using the ABE Screener to find out if you may be eligible for benefits. If you are ready to apply for benefits, start your application.

To log in to your account, you will need to create a user ID and password. For both of these, you should choose something that's easy for you to remember but hard for other people to guess.

IL ABE ? Application for Benefits Eligibility for Support Services for Food Assistance Program and Nutrition

ABE Manage My Case provides customers with information about their benefits including, application status, redetermination status, recent notices and benefit amounts. Customers can also submit redeterminations and changes and request new benefit programs.

ABE and Manage My Case (MMC) are temporarily unavailable. You can still use your benefits including Link, Medical and Cash. Link benefits will be available to use on your scheduled date. Any documents due to the state during this time should be uploaded once the system is available.

Throughout the course of conducting Medicaid Presumptive Eligibility and ABE applications, confidential personal and demographic data from clients will be collected.

Here are some tips for using this website. On each page, answer the questions the best you can. If you are using this website for someone else, answer the questions as if you were that person.

For purposes of Application for Benefits Eligibility(ABE), you may count these people as disabled, but keep in mind that they may not be able to get health care benefits for disabled people unless they take steps to become certified as disabled.