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Empowerment Buddy is a YouTube channel for people rebuilding their lives — benefits, grants, deadlines, and the paperwork nobody explains until it's urgent. The channel doesn't have its own website, so its written deep dives live here, in this section of aidcos.world. Same rule as the videos: no question is too basic, and every step comes in order.
Status: The first posts are in final review and publishing shortly. Each one below is finished and working through our last style pass before it goes live.
A clawback is when a funder demands grant money back. This deep dive covers the three things that trigger one — unspent, off-budget, unreported — the one grant file that protects you, and the 30-day playbook if the letter ever lands on your desk.
You do not get paid for the weeks before you file. This deep dive covers who qualifies, the quit-versus-fired line, the weekly certification that quietly stops more payments than any denial, and what to do if the state says you owe money back.