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Topics for this week’s Health Announce:This Wednesday! Protecting Language Access WebinarMassachusetts Senate Ways and Means budget released last week reflects goal of maintaining coverage in an environment of increasing costs and needs.New resources for the changes to state-funded LTSS for…

Things are happening at a rapid pace right now on both the state and federal level. This email is dedicated to the FY26 State Budget process. Here’s an excellent State Budget 101 Primer from our friends at the Mass Budget and Policy Center that explains the state budget cycle.MLRI’s Analysis of…

Thanks to all of you who weighed in on the SNAP Day of Action on April 30th! Over 1,000 MA residents weighed in with our Congressional Delegation of the importance of continuing to protect and defend SNAP! We have some important updates for you including two FRAC webinars and good news on Summer…

Three Weeks to Save Medicaid National Field Stratefy Call. Monday, May 5, 2025, at 2pm.Join national advocates for a Mega Field Call today at 2 pm to strategize about defending Medicaid from drastic and damaging cuts planned by the Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress.Today’s call is a…

Please add your organization to a sign on letter to the Massachusetts Delegation OPPOSING cuts to the SNAP program!  Deadline: Monday, May 13th.    What’s on the table?  Last week, members of Congress released very different frameworks for their vision of the…

On May 6, 2024, Steward Health Care System LLC and 166 of its affiliated debtors  each filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The Steward website directs people to this website with more…

MassHealth has sent out notices to people now enrolled in Basic and Essential as  well as some people now in Comm. Care or the Health Safety Net about their coverage changing to MassHealth CarePlus on Jan. 1.   People with disabilities or other special health care needs can choose to…

We just received word from the Commissioner's office that they have agreed to issue overnight EBT cards to any SNAP recipients whose EBT photo card did not reach them and their current blue card is not active or the envelope was returned to DTA by the postal service as undeliverable. As you…

At the SNAP Coalition meeting on Tuesday we heard from DTA that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is currently updating databases that DTA workers use to verify Social Security (also called RSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The update will continue through…

1.  Changes to Virtual Gateway SNAP/MassHealth Combo Apps due to Health Care Reform:  We are writing to let SNAP Coalition Members know that the MassHealth Virtual Gateway (VG) portal will be converting to the new health care exchange portal or ConnectorCare system…