If you work with individuals age 65 or older, please consider joining us April 10 in Boston for the annual Basic Benefit Training on Elder benefits. It will cover MassHealth eligibility rules for seniors in the community & in nursing faciliies, home care services from the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, Medicare benefits as well as […]
MLRI will be having its annual Immigrants & Public Benefits Training in Boston on March 28. In the morning our immigration lawyers go over statuses, documents, and the latest on public charge, and we have a plenary session on immigrant eligibility for housing & EA shelter. In the afternoon we have basic and advanced tracks […]
Hi Assisters, My office (MLRI) is doing some work with grandparents raising grandchildren (with no parent in the home –birth parent or adoptive parent) & I wanted to check with you all to confirm that HIX is not counting the grandparent’s income when they apply for the grandchild–whether grandparents claim child as dependent or not […]
The IRS is sending out notices to people who got an advance premium tax credit in 2015 but have not yet filed 2015 taxes. The letter warns them that they won’t be eligible for tax credits in 2017 unless they file they 2015 return soon. The Connector will be doing a data match with the […]
Hi All, This year people who got ConnectorCare in 2015 & did not file a 2015 federal tax return & tax credit reconciliation form will not be able to renew into ConnectorCare in 2017 until their 2015 tax return & form are filed. (We didn’t really have to deal with this last year because so […]
The deadlines for about 300,000 households (about 500,000 individuals) now on MassHealth to submit re-applications is fast approaching: March 15 (27K households); March 23 (102K); and March 29 (168K). If an on-line application is not submitted or a paper application received by the deadline to “stop the clock”, these families are all scheduled to get termination […]