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Thank you all for a very robust Coalition meeting today! We will follow up soon with a more robust email, but for today:   Attached are the child care fliers DTA mentioned during the meeting. These DTA fliers, in English and Spanish, include information about how…

We look forward to seeing you at our March Health Care Working Group meeting tomorrow, (Wed) 3-4:30pm. Scroll down for zoom information, which should also be in your calendar.    Meeting agenda:  1. Proposed PCA cuts  2. Independent Assessment Entity (IAE) for…

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday. We will have a lot of updates to share, and look forward to hearing what you all are seeing.   Below is an agenda for Tuesday’s meeting and updated resources on the numerous added benefits of getting SNAP.  Tuesday 3/26 SNAP Coalition…

MassHealth’s Proposal for an “Independent Assessment Entity” to Centralize Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) On Feb 16, 2024 MassHealth opened up the bidding process for a single entity to centralize assessment and eligibility determinations for the following five long term services and…

Greetings Coalition members.  We have some SNAP updates and information on upcoming events. Our next SNAP Coalition meeting is Tuesday, March 26th from 10 to 11:30 AM.  Agenda to follow next week.  How to get help from DTA & new option to report changes on…

Our next SNAP Coalition meeting will be Tuesday, March 26 from 10-11:30. Many SNAP notices are now going out in 6 languages! BIG NEWS! DTA is now sending out the Benefit Decision Notice in 6 languages - English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Chinese, and Vietnamese (click…

MassHealth updates its income upper limits for 2024 on March 1. The federal government publishes the updated poverty level amounts in late January every year and MassHealth applies them on March 1.    The Health Connector updates its upper income limits based on the poverty…

Yesterday afternoon, Governor Maura Healey released a FY23 “Supplemental Budget” to address a number of fiscal crises in the Commonwealth including the growing need for emergency shelter for new arrivals and funding to continue universal school meals for the rest of the 22/23 school…

Greetings SNAP Coalition members and thanks to the 140+ folks who attended Tuesday’s meeting.  We have a LOT going on the next few weeks! And if you are in Boston today, the Feed Kids Campaign has State House event at 11 AM and the Lift Our Kids Campaign has a State House event at 2 PM!…

MassHealth Advocacy Alert   We need your help at an upcoming Jan 30, 2023 public hearing about MassHealth policies for collecting “overpayments” from MassHealth beneficiaries. Currently, MassHealth collects Premium Assistance overpayments from beneficiaries in a…