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Spanish Translation Guide for Unemployment Insurance
Guidelines and resources to help improve Spanish translations for unemployment insurance (UI) content
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The Average Food Stamp Application is 17 Pages Long
The Average Food Stamp Application is 17 Pages Long article by mRelief highlights the extensive length and complexity of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applications, which can deter eligible individuals from applying for benefits.
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Modernizing Unemployment Insurance: Lessons From The Tiger Teams
This report presents findings from a review by the Bipartisan Policy Center of DOL’s Tiger Teams initiative.
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Streamlining Medicaid Renewals Through the Ex Parte Process
The report discusses how state Medicaid agencies can enhance efficiency and maintain coverage for eligible individuals by implementing ex parte renewals, which automatically renew beneficiaries' coverage using existing data without requiring action from enrollees.
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Keys to a Healthier Digital Future: Interoperability, Open Protocols, and Tech Governance
This research brief summarizes the ideas and recommendations from sessions with dozens of cross-sector stakeholders within the technology ecosystem to identify conditions for better, healthier, more secure digital ecosystems that could help guide the next generation of open protocols and platforms.
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A Guiding Framework to Vetting Public Sector Technology Vendors
This guiding framework supports thoughtful evaluation of how new digital technology-based proposals can affect the U.S. public sector, with a particular focus on their impacts on human rights, social and economic justice, and democratic values. It will benefit funders, procurement officers, and advocates evaluating proposed projects that are often framed as “tech for good,” “justice tech,” or public interest technologies.
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Toolkit: Increasing WIC Coverage Through Cross-Program Data Matching and Targeted Outreach
The toolkit provides strategies for state and local WIC agencies to enhance enrollment by utilizing data from Medicaid and SNAP for cross-program data matching and targeted outreach.
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Providing Unemployment Insurance to Immigrants and Other Excluded Workers
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and its induced recession underscored the crucial importance of unemployment insurance (UI) to workers, and to the stability of the American economy. Temporary federal expansions of unemployment systems during the pandemic showed how they can quickly be scaled to increase benefit levels and to include categories of workers who were not previously eligible, such as the self-employed, caregivers, and low-wage workers. And, states showed that separate programs can be set up to provide similar benefits to workers who are explicitly excluded from unemployment insurance—in particular immigrants who do not have a documented immigration status.
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The State Hub Roadmap: CDSS CalFresh and CalWORKs Streamlining Verifications
The State Hub Roadmap outlines a strategy to streamline eligibility verification for CalFresh and CalWORKs by integrating electronic data systems.
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Jurisdiction Data Maps: Mobile Driver License Implementation Data Map
This map illustrates which jurisdictions throughout the United States and Canada have implemented one of six stages of mobile driver licenses.
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National Collaborative for Integration of Health and Human Services: Promoting Greater Health and Well-Being
This report outlines the guiding principles, policy priorities, and tools for the National Collaborative for Integration of Health and Human Services, aimed at improving health and well-being outcomes through the integration of health care and human services programs.
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Best Practices for SNAP Telephonic Signatures
Telephonic signatures simplify SNAP applications and recertifications, reducing administrative burdens and improving access.