About one-third of Americans who qualify for public assistance haven't signed up. That amounts to millions of people needlessly going without food stamps, low-income housing or health insurance.
This predicament is what RealBenefits, a Boston-based software start-up, was created to solve. The five-person firm's Web database circumvents complicated government paperwork with easy-to-use screening and enrollment tools. So far RealBenefits has connected nearly 100,000 families to more than $371 million in government aid since 2000.
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Obamacare’s unexpected bonus: How the Affordable Care Act is helping middle-aged Americans during the pandemic
Marc Cohen, Center Research Director and Co-Director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, co-authored this column in "The Conversation," on the improved health outcomes due to the ACA for people aged 50-64, and relevance to the pandemic.
6 States Taking A Multiyear Approach To LTC Costs | Insurancenewsnet.com
A new report on efforts at LTSS reform in six states jointly released by the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation and the LeadingAge LTSS Center@UMass Boston was featured on Insurancenewsnet.com.
Thousands visiting an Olathe hospital were sued for medical debt. Dozens went to jail | The Kansas Leadership Center Journal
Community Catalyst Business Development Manager Mark Rukavina is quoted in a Kansas Leadership Center Journal article on one medical center's highly aggressive actions to collect on medical debts, including widespread use of lawsuits against consumers.
Ghost Bill: UVA Siphons Couple’s Tax Refund To Pay 20-Year-Old Medical Debt | Kaiser Health News
Community Catalyst Business Development Manager Mark Rukavina is quoted in a Kaiser Health News story about how the Univ. of Virginia and other state institutions attach two-decade old medical debt, by reducing state tax refunds due.
We Can't Shut Our Eyes | Get Konnected Magazine
The April 10 blog post, "We Can’t Shut Our Eyes – Black People Are Being Infected and Dying From the Coronavirus at Alarming Rates," by Dara S. Taylor, Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, was reprinted in Get Konnected Magazine's May 2020 edition.