What's new at MLS

Feb 12, 2021 Health Update  Greetings everyone, Below are several updates & upcoming events for the next two weeks.  We will not be holding a Health Care Working Group meeting in February, stay tuned for a date in early March.  We are preparing for our annual Health…

Thanks to all who tuned in for this morning's Coalition meeting with FNS NERO and DTA. FNS offered to come back to another SNAP Coalition meeting to explain how "Disaster SNAP" works (when there are widespread natural disasters such as fires, tornadoes). DTA also offered to bring their…

  Some highlights from events in the last week...   1.      Vaccine distribution --hot off the presses today, Gov Baker's announcement of  Call Center to help people age 75 or older having trouble making appointments on…

To: SNAP Coalition  Fr: Vicky Negus and Pat Baker   Happy Friday! A number of resources, updates, and information below.    Also, we wanted to flag this powerful NBC nightly news piece on SNAP featuring Stacy Dean, the newly appointed USDA Deputy Under…

Hot off the press is a PDF version of an electronic letter that Department of Higher Ed (DHE) Commissioner Carlos Santiago sent last night to 94,000 MA low income college students. His letter also shares his personal story using SNAP as a college student for his family. The DHE electronic…

We are sharing with you the press release that MLRI released last night with its partners in the Massachusetts Protecting Immigrant Families MA-PIF) in support of President Biden's Executive Order below, and link to the Biden Executive…

A variety of updates on P-EBT, President Biden's planned Executive Actions today, Unemployment and more!    Reminder our next Coalition meeting - with FNS NERO! - will be next Tuesday, February 9 at 10 AM. Agenda and Zoom link to come.    EBT…

A number of updates and resources below - Including the 2021 SNAP Coalition meeting schedule!    SNAP and college students     Expansion of SNAP under December COVID Package: The SNAP rules have not yet changed for college students. Massachusetts…

  Thanks all for attending Tuesday’s 1/26/21 interim SNAP Coalition meeting (over 120 attendees – wow!). Big thanks to FRAC and to our state partners for important state legislative and budget campaigns.  We are sending two emails today. This is the first with information on…

Special SNAP Coalition call info below along with other updates - including a flier on SNAP and unemployment benefits!   Special SNAP Coalition Zoom on Tuesday, 1/26 from 10-11 to cover federal updates!   In light of Friday's executive order, we are having a…