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Create Application for Benefits Eligibility (ABE) Account

In our post, we’re going to provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to create Application for Benefits Eligibility account. Our Application for Benefits Eligibility (ABE) Account Guide is quick and easy if you follow the instructions outlined in this post. If you are not familiar Application for Benefits Eligibility, it’s the online portal run by the Illinois Department of Human Services for cash assistance and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The ABE website currently supports the following Illinois government benefit programs:

  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – helps low-income people and families buy the food they need for good health (formerly Food Stamps)
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) – provides cash benefits to help pregnant women and families with temporary cash benefits. These benefits can be used to pay for food, shelter, utilities, and other expenses – excluding medical
  • Aid to the Aged, Blind, and Disabled (AABD) Cash – provides medical and cash assistance benefits to those qualified senior citizens, blind and disabled
  • Medicare Savings Program (MSP) – offers access and low-cost health care coverage to eligible children, adults, seniors, and the disabled

The Application for Benefits Eligibility website can be used by Illinois residents to complete various tasks, such as:

  • Determine your eligibility for benefits
  • Save an application
  • Manage your case
  • Update your case information
  • View your benefits information
  • Complete a renewal
  • Appeal your case

If you’re an Illinois resident and wish to apply for cash assistance or SNAP benefits, or if you’re already receiving benefits and would to manage them online, you must have an Application for Benefits Eligibility account in order to do so. For help setting up your account, keep reading for our step-by-step Application for Benefits Eligibility Create an Account Guide. If you already have an ABE account, click here to login

How to Create Application for Benefits Eligibility Account Guide

The first step in creating an ABE online account is to visit the Application for Benefits Eligibility website at www.abe.illinois.gov/abe/access/. Once you are on the ABE homepage you will need to locate the Login button, which is located in the top-right corner of the homepage (see image below).

 

Application for Benefits Eligibility Create an Account

 

Once you have located the Login button on the ABE homepage, proceed by clicking the Login button. After you click the button, a Login box will appear on the homepage. Your page should like the image below.

 

Application for Benefits Eligibility Login

 

Once you see the Login box appear on the homepage, click the Create Account link located below the green Login button and Forgot Password link. Once you have done that, you will be taken to a page like the one below to create your account. 

Step 1 – Enter Personal Information

The first step is to enter the following information:

  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • User ID
  • Password

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Step 2 – Select Secret Questions

The next step in the process is to select two secret questions that will be used to help you retrieve your User ID or Password in the future, should you forget what they are.

Be sure you select questions and answers you are likely to remember.

After you have selected your questions, click on the “Create Account” link to proceed.

"Learn How to create ABE Account"Once the system accepts the information you entered, you will be taken to a page like the one below, with a confirmation.

"ABE Illinois create an account"Congratulation!! You have successfully created an ABE account. Here’s what to do next:

Login into your ABE account by clicking here. Use the username and password you selected in Step 1 above.

Once you successfully login, you will be taken to a page that looks like the one below. Here, you will be able to do one of the following:

    • Start a new application for Health care coverage, SNAP, Cash Assistance, and/or Medicare Savings Program.
    • Keep working on an application that you have already started.
    • Check the status or view an application that you have already submitted.

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Kwame Kuadey

Kwame Kuadey writes about personal finance and the social safety net. His career started in banking but he caught the entrepreneurial bug and has spent the last decade building successful businesses, including an Inc. 500 Company. Kwame believes everyone has the power to improve their quality of life by seeking knowledge and taking action. In 2012, Kwame founded Empower Media to help low-income households improve their financial situation. His expertise is in topics relevant to low-income households, including government benefits and assistance, banking products, access to credit, plus tools & resources to help reduce income volatility and build wealth. Kwame has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc. Magazine, Washington Post, ABC, and NPR.

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