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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…

Great news! CMS approved the amendments to the 1115 Demonstration today!    EOHHS's press release is here listing some of the key changes.   Changes include 90 days of pre-release services for MassHealth members who are incarcerated (MA will be the 4th state…

1. MassHealth Renewals Extension to Oct 16 for people with disabilities. In August MassHealth notified about 35,000 households containing 62,000 individuals with at least one member with a disability that they had to submit a reapplication by Sept 15 to remain eligible for MassHealth. The…

We are writing to give you more updates of PROGRESS being made in Massachusetts!  Some of this is "in the weeds" -  but since many of you ask about or follow this stuff so, here goes:  1.  BEACON System Improvements for SNAP Applications and Interim Reporting:…

Greetings and welcome to September The following email is to give you some brief updates on recent SNAP policy items of interest. 1) SNAP and Medical Expense Deduction: In its August 2015 Transitions Magazine, DTA included a number of Policy Hotline questions and answers for…