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MassHealth renewal/redetermination update

Submitted by Health-Law-Announcements
05/29/2015 - 3:49am

It is not too late for MassHealth members who lost benefits for failing to reapply to reinstate their coverage back to the date it ended, and you can help

What happened?

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Additional "SNAP Triage 101 Training" on Friday, June 12th in Central Massachusetts (Worcester)

Submitted by FoodSNAP
05/28/2015 - 7:31am
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Boston Globe: Official calls food stamp system "an embarrassment", DTA increases staffing, overtime and Ombuds line to handle calls

Submitted by FoodSNAP
05/21/2015 - 7:29pm
Today's Boston Globe has a front page story on the state's SNAP crisis and bungled modernization which EOHHS Secretary Mary Lou Sudders calls "horrible" and an "embarrassment" to the Commonwealth.Â\ http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/05/20/official-calls-food-stamp-system-embarrassment/GrjFgHmnEKuxr3Q8o82ynL/story.html?event=event25
 
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Treatment of recouped or "withheld" Social Security income for SNAP households

Submitted by FoodSNAP
05/18/2015 - 12:18pm

FNS Agrees that DTA Must Stop Erroneously Counting "Recouped" or withheld Social Security Benefits (same rule for recouped UI and VA Pension)

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SNAP Coalition meeting on May 19th; FNS Response on "Recouped" Income; Upcoming SNAP 101 Triage Training in Central MA

Submitted by FoodSNAP
05/18/2015 - 12:06pm
The next SNAP Coalition Meeting is TOMORROW, May 19th from 10 to Noon at St Francis House
  
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MassHealth Renewals & Dentures

Submitted by Health-Law-Announcements
05/15/2015 - 2:00pm

Renewal Progress Report

Excellent article on the front page of today's (May 15) Globe on MassHealth renewals of 1.2 million members.

MassHealth on massive hunt to verify eligibility

State has to check up on 1.2 million people. Locate 1.2 million people. Find even the thousands of them who don'€™t speak English or don't have a place to live. Get them to fill out a 26-page application. Process those forms. And get it done by the end of the year.

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Reminder: Boston SNAP Coalition 5/19, Feb 2015 caseload decline, update on DTA Ombudsman Office

Submitted by FoodSNAP
05/12/2015 - 3:23pm
SNAP Coalition Meeting May 19
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