What's new at MLS

  Happy New Year!  We hope you are continuing to stay healthy and safe, and especially now with the pandemic continuing to ramp up.  But we have some great action steps while you hunker down.  At 11 AM today, the Joint Committee on Higher Education is hearing legislation…

Massachusetts submitted its extension request to CMS on Dec 21 and there is now an opportunity to file comments with CMS. Comments are due by Feb 3, 2022.   MLRI is working on its analysis of the request which we will be sharing with you soon.   One disappointment is that EOHHS…

As promised on this AM's SNAP Call, below is the sign on letter that Congressman McGovern's office is distributing. Deadline is Noon, Friday, April 3rd.  If Members of Congress (MOCs) wish to sign-on, ask them to please  USE THIS FORM by 12p this Friday, 4/3. If MOC…

Thanks to the more than 130 of you who tuned in for a robust discussion this morning. We will share a Zoom link later, but note that for at least the next few weeks we will be having COVID-19 SNAP Coalition calls every Tuesday morning at 10 AM. A number of resources…

Today MassHealth announced important new protections for MassHealth members who were enrolled in MassHealth benefits on March 18, 2020 or later. Many thanks to everyone at the Office of Medicaid for their speedy implementation of this…

Greetings Everyone, It’s been an eventful week as we all try to keep abreast of the ever-changing landscape in terms of the wide-ranging effects of the Covid-19 public health crisis.  Today we want to highlight just one of the evolving policy responses: The Health…

It is not too late for MassHealth members who lost benefits for failing to reapply to reinstate their coverage back to the date it ended, and you can help What happened? Almost 300,000 MassHealth renewal notices were mailed in January and February giving 500,000 MassHealth members March…

FNS Agrees that DTA Must Stop Erroneously Counting "Recouped" or withheld Social Security Benefits (same rule for recouped UI and VA Pension) We are continuing to hear of cases where DTA is incorrectly counting in the SNAP calculation the income that Social Security is recouping for a…