Assistance program
Elder Justice Act – Adult Protective Services
$56.8 Million committed in FY2023–FY2026
- Agency
- Administration for Community Living (Acl), Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 93.698
- What it does
- To enhance and improve coordinated systems of adult protective services provided by states and local communities for older adults and adults with disabilities. The objective of these services is to investigate reports of abuse and exploitation, provide support and case management, and connect those facing abuse to a variety of protective, emergency, and support services to allow older adults and adults with disabilities to safely remain in their homes and communities. Providing adult protective services through this program insures that older adults and adults with disabilities are able to remain safe in the community.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Only States, the District of Columbia, and US Territories which have legal responsibility for providing adult protective services are eligible to receive these grants. The eligible entity for these awards is the agency or unit of state government legally responsible for providing adult protective services in each state and territory (EJA Section 2042(b)(3)(B)).
- Authorized by
- An adult protective services grant program under which the Secretary shall annually award grants to States based on the percentage of elders in a state for the purposes of enhancing adult protective services provided by States and local units of government.
- Program site
- http://acl.gov/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments