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Keeping it simple. Thanks to MiCAFE, seniors like Les in the video above, who lives in a housing complex, can apply for a Michigan Bridge Card where they live instead of the local welfare office.

MiCAFE locates sites in areas and places where seniors are. MiCAFE sites include senior centers, housing complexes, cultural centers, Churches, health clinics, and community centers.

Just call a MiCAFE site to schedule an interview. The site will explain what to bring to the interview. A friendly application assistant will ask a few questions and enter the answers into a computer. At the end of the interview, sign the printed application for benefits. That's all. There are no forms to fill out, no trips to the welfare office, just one stop and the application is done. Applicants who are eligible for a Michigan Bridge Card should receive it within 30 days.

The Michigan Bridge Card



The Bridge Card helps pay for food. It frees seniors to use their grocery money to pay bills for heat, lights, water or to buy things like medicine, clothes or anything else they want to buy. 

MiCAFE, called “My Café,” helps people like Les who are age 60 or older apply for a Bridge Card!  This new program is offered by Elder Law of Michigan and local senior and community centers in 10 Michigan counties (highlighted in red in the map below). 

Call a center in your area to set up a time to meet.  A caring volunteer will sit down with you at the meeting and show you how MiCAFE works.  You don’t have to fill out any forms –it’s just one meeting.  You can also sign up for health care services at the same time if you like.