What's new at MLS

The first round of the pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) benefits to Massachusetts households were issued TODAY - for certain households with active DTA benefits (see below). Also, active SNAP households will also get their April emergency SNAP supplement, likely around May 2nd.  We…

Yesterday April 24, 2020, MassHealth filed an emergency 1115 waiver request for changes they are asking for as of Mar 1 and that would continue throughout the public health emergency.     These are two of the most important requested changes on the eligibility…

Thanks to the more than 135 of you who called in to this morning's Zoom. We will do another weekly call next Tuesday, 4/28, from 10-11:30. Below are updates and information to follow up to today's call.    MLRI information: Reporting rules for workers on SNAP who start…

SNAP Coalition AGENDA:  The agenda is subject to change, but currently includes: updates on Pandemic EBT, DTA operations and other DTA issues action for community group on P-EBT and bringing in newly poor families  overview of Unemployment Insurance - what's…

Here are this week’s COVID-19 related updates.  Our next SNAP Coalition call is Tuesday, April 14th at 10 AM, Look out for an eblast with log in info.  Pandemic EBT Benefits coming soon:  We’ve been getting lots of questions about the upcoming…

In the event that this clarifies any questions you've had about MassHealth's freeze on terminations, we wanted to pass along this helpful messaging from the MA Health Care Training Forum. This includes information for people who have received termination notices or Requests for…

Greetings again. First, a quick reminder that DTA Central will be hopping on the Central MA SNAP Coalition Zoom call at 10 AM tomorrow if you want to get more updates in the first half hour (see Zoom meeting call in below). You can hop off any time.  DTA Text Message to Households…

Some upbeat news! We did not have a chance at yesterday's SNAP Coalition meeting to update folks on the great work being done by DTA and community orgs to launch a Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) in Massachusetts. HIP Project Director Frank Martinez-Nocito of DTA sent on the following…

You or your clients can now use DTA Connect to send documents to DTA! On Monday DTA released the second phase of DTA Connect, allowing clients to submit documents to DTA directly through the app!! This is very exciting for our clients who have access to a smartphone. Sending…

Forwarded here is info about notice from Connector to 7000 people who have to pay first month's bill to begin coverage on Feb 1 that they will have until Feb 10 to pay for Feb due to Connector delay mailing out bill (payments usually due by Jan 23 for Feb 1) ---------- Forwarded message…