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Basic Benefits Trainings on Tenants Rights, Veteran's Benefits, and Immigrants/Public Benefits: The MCLE website is back!

Submitted by FoodSNAP
04/12/2021 - 3:26pm

As you may know, Mass Continuing Legal Education had some issues with their website in March and April, and had to postpone a number of their trainings. (In some cases, they also were unable to notify many registrants in advance of cancelled sessions, for which they deeply apologize and will extend credit to the rescheduled session.) 

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P-EBT retro to approx. 600k MA children TODAY! + Coalition mtg Tues 4/13

Submitted by FoodSNAP
04/12/2021 - 12:11pm
Info on tomorrow's SNAP Coalition meeting below, along with an overview of the tens of millions of critical P-EBT dollars going out to families today!!
 
SNAP Coalition - tomorrow, 4/13 from 10-11:30 AM
 
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Health Care Access: Upcoming events & updates

Submitted by Health-Law-Announcements
04/12/2021 - 10:06am
 
1. Health Care Working Group tomorrow April 13, 2021 3:30-5. Agenda: American Rescue Plan Act, MassHealth Redeterminations, MassHealth 1115 amendments & renewal.  
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Health Care Working Group Meeting: Tuesday @ 3:30pm

Submitted by Health-Law-Announcements
04/09/2021 - 11:51am
This is a reminder that our next Health Care Working Group meeting is next Tuesday, April 13, at 3:30pm. We'll be discussing: 
 
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MCLE- MLRI Immigrant/Benefit Training for today is postponed to May 6th - due to ongoing MCLE IT/server issues

Submitted by FoodSNAP
04/08/2021 - 9:51am
Dear SNAP Coalition members:

If you registered for the Mass Continuing Legal Education Immigrant/Benefits training that was scheduled for April 8th, it has been POSTPONED to May 6th. 
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Training updates, SNAP Emergency Allotments, P-EBT & CEP Updates and Call to Action

Submitted by FoodSNAP
04/07/2021 - 3:11pm

This is just a brief reminder of our upcoming SNAP Coalition meeting on Tuesday, April 13th from 10 to 11:30 AM.  We will have a robust agenda with updates on the SNAP emergency allotments, P-EBT and federal and state legislative updates.   See Zoom link below. 

Please also see FRAC’s alert below on urging members of Congress to support in the next COVID-19 Relief Package a) Healthy School Meals for All, b) long term investments in SNAP and c) permanent  Child Tax Credit improvements. 

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April 8 2021 Immigrants and Public Benefits BBT Postponed

Submitted by Health-Law-Announcements
04/05/2021 - 11:41am
MCLE, our host for this training, is still having problems with its server and has postponed this training until May 6, 2021. Once the server is back up, people who pre-registered for the April 8, 2021 will be notified about the rescheduled date by MCLE.
Apologies if you have reregistered or saved the date.
 
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Biden Administration to Provide Emergency SNAP Benefits to Lowest Income SNAP Households - $23.6M/mo for More MA SNAP Households

Submitted by FoodSNAP
04/02/2021 - 10:05am
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National Sign-on Letter to CMS To Rescind Trump Medicaid Rule

Submitted by Health-Law-Announcements
03/31/2021 - 5:46pm
 
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Public charge fact sheets & April 1st webinar; P-EBT updates; 3 month SNAP time limit updates!

Submitted by FoodSNAP
03/31/2021 - 1:36pm

We are writing with important updates on “public charge,” a training tomorrow and efforts to repeal the SNAP 3-month time limit/work rules.

Public Charge updates, client materials and Virtual Q&A tomorrow  

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