GY2026 Refugee Support Services and Set Asides

The New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services received a Formula Grant award of $182,807 from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under the Refugee and Entrant Assistance State/Replacement Designee Administered Programs (CFDA 93.566), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This award funds Refugee Support Services (RSS), which provides five years of formula-based employment and related social services to eligible refugee populations, including refugees, asylees, certain Amerasians, Cuban and Haitian entrants, trafficking victims, Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrants, and eligible Afghan and Ukrainian Humanitarian Parolees. The RSS program supports workforce development, job placement, and ancillary social services designed to facilitate economic self-sufficiency and community integration for these populations during their critical resettlement period.

As a state agency administering the program, New Hampshire is required to submit an Annual Service Plan (ORR-6 form) and comply with the Uniform Guidance under 2 CFR Part 200 and HHS-specific provisions in 2 CFR Part 300, effective October 1, 2025. The award represents New Hampshire's proportional state allocation within the national RSS formula grant distribution and supports the state's ongoing refugee resettlement infrastructure and service delivery capacity across health, human services, and workforce development programming.