181 How Lane
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
1 (732) 745-3500
TANF (formerly AFDC) Food Stamps, Medicaid, HEAP, Adult Protective Services
Open between 8:15 AM-4:14 PM (Closed between 12 Noon and 1:00 PM)
By Personal Vehicle-
Route #1 Northbound to the Jersey Avenue exit (Exit will be North of J&J and Malouf car dealership on your right.) Take Jersey Avenue through the light industrial section to the traffic light at How Lane intersection. Make left onto How Lane. (A trucking school and the Home News buildings will be on your right and will serve as landmarks for you.) The Middlesex County Board of Social Services building is a three-story white cement and black glass building set back from the roadway on your right. Building is located north and east of the How Lane and Route #27 intersection. Plenty of parking is available on-site.
By Train-
By vehicle, bicycle or walking to the Princeton Junction train station, take the train north to the Jersey Avenue stop in New Brunswick. At the Jersey Avenue station, take the free jitney bus to the Middlesex County Board of Social Services building. Be advised that the jitney bus schedule is extremely limited.
By Bus-
By vehicle, bicycling or walking to the Princeton Shopping Center on North Harrison Street in Princeton, take the Suburban Transit bus to the intersection of Route #27 and How Lane. Walk to the Middlesex County Board of Social Services, it will be the second driveway on your left.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO NEW JERSEY TRANSIT BUS SERVICE NORTHBOUND TO THE NEW BRUNSWICK COUNTY SEAT.
WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU-
Documentation of age, identity, circumstance, marital status, income and assets. (Ask yourself the questions- “who, what, when, where, why, and how” you have come to your present circumstance or difficulty. Be prepared to provide independent documentation that you are who you say you are and that conditions are as you say they are. The more information that you are able to provide at the time of application, the less time it will take the social worker to verify your case. If personnel there must wait to receive requested documentation, it will take all the longer to process your case and to make an appropriate decision on it. Some acceptable examples of documentation are as follows:
Type: |
Proof: |
| * Alien Registration Cards |
Identity, Entrance Program |
| * Birth Certificates |
Given Name, Age, Place of Birth,
Next of Kin |
* Baptismal/Christening Certificates
|
Given Name, Next of Kin |
| * Bank Statement (two months/current) |
Assets, Income |
| * Car Title/Registration |
Assets |
| * Clinic Records |
Health Records |
| * Court Support Orders |
Family, Residence, Income |
| * Drivers License |
Identity, Age, Address |
| * Insurance Policies |
Income, Assets, Conditions |
| * Leases |
Residence |
| * Naturalization Papers |
Age, Place of Birth, Address,
Sponsor |
| * Payroll Stubs |
Social Security Number, Income
Schedule |
| * Physician Letters |
Level of Incapacity, Diagnosis,
Prognosis, Treatment |
| * Restraining Orders |
Identity, Relationship, Residence,
Income |
| * Social Security Cards |
Identity Verification of Social Security Number |
| * Unemployment Receipts |
Income, Identity, Social Security
Number |
| * Utility Bills |
Amount, Residence |
If your situation is an emergency, you are ill, or have no food in the house, or no heat, make sure that your Food Stamp caseworker marks and processes your case as an EMERGENCY.
Paperwork, even in an emergency case , takes time. Therefore, Plainsboro Township Municipal Welfare Department has set up a temporary, limited EMERGENCY Food Bank in the waiting room of the Department’s offices. The Director not need to be in the office for you to access these foodstuffs. All that is ever asked – is that you take only what you need, and that you not waste what you take, While it is not designed to be a long-term solution to the problem, it should be able to assist you until your Food Stamps eligibility begins.
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