What's new at MLS

This is a special eblast to give you an update on SNAP households impacted by 10/26 and 10/27 Nor-easter and SNAP replacement benefits. DTA now has street lists from National Grid and EverSource Lists by municipality that will be used to confirm/verify the household's outage. Yesterday,…

  A number of updates below on EBT cards, replacement SNAP, the Child Tax Credit deadline next week, and new DTA SNAP videos!    Our next Coalition meeting will be Tuesday, December 7 from 10-11:30 - we combine our November and December meetings into one…

We’ve got some important news updates for you and action steps to keep the drum roll on important federal and state legislation. ACTION:  Contact your MOC to End the ABAWD SNAP Time Limit Rule & Defend the Build Back Better Act!   First, we need your help getting the entire…

  We hope you all have power back on from last week’s power-packed Nor’easter (85-90 mph winds!)  As is our tradition, there is NO Coalition meeting the week of November 22rd.  The next "regular" SNAP Coalition meeting will be Tuesday, December…

Our colleagues at NASW Massachusetts Chapter - and co-chairs of the Common Apps Coalition - have drafted a fantastic sign on letter for MA social workers and social work students. The goal is to both draw more attention to the growing crisis of healthcare patients who also present with significant…

Important updates below! Pat and I will be in touch soon regarding our next Coalition meeting (we typically combine meetings in November and December to one meeting in early December due to the holidays - stay tuned!).     Replacement SNAP - power outages from…

We hope you are all safe and warm.    Yesterday, House Ways and Means released their draft proposal on how to spend the $5.3 billion from our federal government through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to help Massachusetts families recover from the pandemic.   Please…

  This could not be more urgent.  We need your help THIS WEEK to get the Massachusetts Delegation firmly behind protecting funding for the child nutrition provisions in the Build Back Better Act, or we are building backwards!   WRONG!  Under the core framework of the…

We hope you are enjoying this lovely October day.  A few things on the horizon for today and next week. SNAP Coalition Meeting – Tuesday, October 26th Our next (4th Tuesday) SNAP Coalition meeting is Tuesday, October 26th from 10 to 11:30 AM.  Here’s the meeting…

More about LTSS expansion for immigrants in Family Assistance   We are still waiting for release of the Eligibility Operations Memos that should provide more information about how this will actually work--but forwarded here is the first written communication from MassHealth about the Nov…