Financial Services: VIEW

What is VIEW?

VIEW is an acronym for Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare. VIEW is known as the state’s work program. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families or TANF promotes economic independence through participation in this program.

This VIEW program embodies the key tenets or beliefs of welfare reform, including an emphasis on personal responsibility, work first, and time limited benefits. VIEW offers eligible participants employment-related activities, education, training and needed support services.

For more information please contact the Suffolk Department of Social Services located at 135 Hall Avenue, Suite B in Suffolk, VA or call (757) 514-7450.