Individual Development Accounts

Individual Development Accounts (IDA) are matched savings accounts designed to help refugees save for a specific purchase. Under the IDA program, the matching funds, together with the refugee's own savings from their employment, are available for purchasing one (or more) of four savings goals:

  1. Home purchase
  2. Small business development
  3. Post secondary education or training
  4. Automobile (for employment purposes)
     

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  • Policy Guidance & Reporting Forms

    September 27, 2012
    Legislative Authority Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Click here for a description about the Act and how it was created. Also link to the
  • ISED Solutions - Institute for Social and Economic Development

    September 18, 2012
    ISED is one of the earliest advocates for asset development for low and moderate income people and is widely recognized as an innovator in the provision of
  • State Letter #02-19

    June 12, 2012
    TO: STATE REFUGEE COORDINATORS NATIONAL VOLUNTARY AGENCIES OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES FROM: Nguyen Van Hanh, Ph.D. Director Office of Refugee
  • Report Forms

    April 5, 2012
    This section provides Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) report forms for all federal grants, including
  • Policy Guidance/State Letters

    April 5, 2012
    Indices of letters sent to State Refugee Coordinators during each calendar year on pertinent issues for State administered refugee programs.
  • Policy Guidance/State Letters

    April 5, 2012
    Indices of letters sent to State Refugee Coordinators during each calendar year on pertinent issues for State administered refugee programs.
  • State Letter #02-19

    June 12, 2012
    TO: STATE REFUGEE COORDINATORS NATIONAL VOLUNTARY AGENCIES OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES FROM: Nguyen Van Hanh, Ph.D. Director Office of Refugee
  • State Letter #00-03

    March 17, 2000
    Discretionary Funds for Projects to Establish Individual Development Accounts for Refugees {Federal Register: March 13, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 49)]
  • ISED Solutions - Institute for Social and Economic Development

    September 18, 2012
    ISED is one of the earliest advocates for asset development for low and moderate income people and is widely recognized as an innovator in the provision of
  • Policy Guidance & Reporting Forms

    September 27, 2012
    Legislative Authority Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Click here for a description about the Act and how it was created. Also link to the
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