Effective July 1, 2019, INTP will transition into the Low-Income Fare is Easy (LIFE) program. For more information click on the “Changes are coming to INTP” tab.
The Immediate Needs Transportation Program (INTP) provides transit subsidies or in special circumstances subsidized taxi service for Los Angeles County residents with limited resources who have a qualifying trip purpose and no other resources to meet that transportation need. The eligible trip purposes are; food bank, shelter, job search/interview, etc.
The service is made available throughout Los Angeles County via a network of over 500 not-for-profit and governmental agencies that include medical centers, homeless service providers and shelters, senior and domestic violence centers that distribute transit tokens, taxi coupons and/or scrip to their clients.
There are three types of transportation subsidies under the INTP Program:
Transit Tokens (effective until June 30, 2019)
Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA) Day Pass/SCRIP
Taxi Coupons
Eligibility Criteria
Individuals who have no transportation resources and are not receiving subsidies from other program such ACCESS (ASI), their City Ride, or SHORE, LIFE program or other INTP agencies that cover like services.
There is no age limit, but minors under the age of 18 years must be accompanied by an adult in order to receive fare media.
Trip Purpose Eligibility
Trip Purposes Eligible for INTP fare subsidy:
Medical Emergencies do not qualify for eligible trip purpose.
Trip purposes NOT eligible for INTP fare subsidy:
Sign up (or participate) for INTP in just three steps:
Administrator contact info:
Starting July 1, 2019 , INTP will transition into the Low-Income Fare is Easy (LIFE) program and tokens will no longer be distributed. All benefits will be loaded directly onto your TAP card.
To redeem LIFE subsidies with TAP: Simply take your registered LIFE TAP card to any TAP participating vendor and load your fare option.
Fare options: You can choose to purchase or load one of the following options each month:
LIFE participating operators and equivalent passes:
Annual Re-enrollment: You will only have to re-enroll in the LIFE program at an agency once year. No need to visit an agency every six months.
Requirement to Enroll in the Program
Be sure to bring all of the following to your agency:
For more information visit:
https://www.metro.net/projects/immediate_needs_transport_pgm/