Anthropic and nonprofit partner to streamline benefits administration with AI

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Jana Rhyu (left) and Michael Lai announce Code for America and Anthropic's partnership to develop AI-based tools to streamline benefits administration for caseworkers at the annual Code for America Summit on May 8, 2026, in Chicago. Kaitlyn Levinson for GovExec

ByKaitlyn Levinson,
Reporter, Route Fifty

May 11, 2026 04:00 PM ET

Code for America is working with the AI company to build and pilot solutions that leverage Anthropic’s Claude chatbot to help benefit caseworkers improve service delivery.

CHICAGO — The civic tech nonprofit Code for America is partnering with artificial intelligence company Anthropic to develop tools aimed at helping caseworkers enhance public benefits administration across the nation.

The organizations are working together to develop an AI-enabled solution to improve the accuracy and timeliness of benefits service delivery under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Jana Rhyu, vice president of product at Code for America, announced...

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