Service Delivery Area: Benefits
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Human-Centered Design Ten Ways Customer Experience Can Improve Equitable Access and System Integrity for Unemployment Insurance
This publication shares ten ways states can improve start-to-finish customer experience for unemployment insurance claimants. These approaches can increase overall equitable access and system integrity for UI administration.
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Human-Centered Design Analysis Plan: Increasing Medicaid Renewals with Text Message Reminders
Through an innovative pilot and evaluation, this project aims to improve ongoing Medicaid coverage using the Notify.gov service.
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Human-Centered Design Training and Employment Notice No. 18-24: Customer Experience Checklist and Resources for Unemployment Insurance Programs
Includes customer experience checklist, metrics, and resources to help states improve unemployment insurance programs.
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Policy Skimming: Tackling SNAP Benefit Theft
The article highlights the growing issue of SNAP benefit theft through skimming and advocates for permanent security measures and benefit replacements to protect vulnerable households.
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Automation + AI AI Translation Assistants for Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Learn how to use generative AI to quickly create unemployment insurance translations that are accurate, easy to understand, and tailored to your state.
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Human-Centered Design Scaling Out Government Assistance
This session from FormFest 2024 focused on how to help people get the assistance they need from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ work on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the Maryland Social Services Administration’s work to improve welfare support for kinship caregivers.
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Human-Centered Design Bringing SNAP Benefits at Scale
This session from FormFest 2024 focused on how governments are scaling their SNAP benefits programs, with Maryland’s improved integrated benefits application and the Office of Evaluation Sciences’ changes to questions on the SNAP application.
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Automation + AI Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
Issued on October 30, 2023, this Executive Order provides guidance to support the responsible development of Artificial Intelligence.
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Automation + AI AI-Powered SNAP Modernization: Analysis of Policy Issues Impacting the Use of Artificial Intelligence in SNAP Case Processing
This publication unpacks the rapidly evolving policy landscape surrounding the use of AI in SNAP case processing.
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Policy Medicaid Threats in the Upcoming Congress
This paper focuses on harmful legislative Medicaid proposals that have been floated in the past and that Congress should continue to resist.
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Automation + AI AI-Ready: An Evaluation Guide for Health and Human Services Agencies
This is a practical tool designed to help government agencies make informed, responsible decisions about adopting AI technologies.
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Digital Identity 2024 Edition: Account Creation and Identity Proofing in Online Public Benefits Applications
In December 2024, the Digital Benefits Network released an updated open dataset on authentication and identity proofing requirements across various public benefits applications to highlight best practices and areas for improvement in identity management.