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Policy2Code Demo Day Recap
A recap of the twelve teams who presented during the Policy2Code Prototyping Challenge at BenCon 2024.
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Redesigning and Standardizing Information About Government Assistance
The Seattle.gov website's new Assistance and Discounts page centralizes information on city benefits and services, offering a user-friendly and consistent experience across 7,000 pages.
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How Do Children and Society Benefit from Public Investments in Children?
This Urban Institute report examines how public investments in children's health, education, and welfare yield significant short- and long-term benefits for both individuals and society.
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Family Benefits in America: 2023 Report Card
This report calculates the cumulative impact of major benefit programs on two types of families and how their benefits change as they move into the labor market and climb the ladder of upward mobility.
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The Keys to Application Processing Timeliness
This document provides guidance on the most important strategies or “Keys” to achieving and maintaining acceptable timeliness rates. It is a companion to the Keys to Payment Accuracy guide.
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California’s Journey with Medi-Cal Redeterminations
Through its work with USDS, California identified key strategies and quick implementation steps to automate federal unwinding waivers that would net the largest impact for Medi-Cal redeterminations.
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Benefits Cliffs: Effects on Workers and the Role of Employers
In this report, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation examines benefits cliffs – the loss of eligibility for public safety-net programs and benefits they provide as income rises above eligibility limits.
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How Did Medicaid Renewal Outcomes Change During the Unwinding?
Post-Medicaid continuous enrollment's end in March 2023, states faced renewal challenges through August 2024, seeing improved auto-renewals but persistent procedural disenrollments despite outreach and intervention.
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The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States
This study explores the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were randomized into receiving $1,000 per month unconditionally for three years, with a control group of 2,000 participants receiving $50/month.
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Mixed-Status Families and Immigrant Families with Children Continued Avoiding Safety Net Programs in 2023
This Urban Institute report highlights how immigrant and mixed-status families continued to avoid safety net programs in 2023 due to lingering fears around the public charge rule.
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Beyond hunger: The role of SNAP in alleviating financial strain for low-income households
Many low-income households lack the savings to weather financial shocks like layoffs, and SNAP plays a crucial role in helping them manage essential expenses during difficult times.
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Assessing the Impact of Proposed College Student SNAP Policies
This report examines the extent to which proposed options included in the Student Food Security Act, Let Students Eat proposal, and the EATS Act impact specific demographics of students, either by increasing access or by streamlining the process for qualifying students to demonstrate eligibility.