CLASP Audio Call: The Public Benefits Boost: New Strategies for Increasing Take-Up
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) will co-moderate an audio call entitled The Public Benefits Boost: New Strategies for Increasing Take-Up, on May 26, 2010 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET.
Increasing access to work supports and other public benefits such as food stamps, EITC, child care subsidies, Medicaid can help families living on low incomes gain vital income and services. Boosting the take-up of public benefits is an issue that has finally gained traction not only among researchers and service providers, but among policy makers.
In this audio conference you will learn the role that public benefits can provide toward family stability and the latest legislative developments; new lessons from research that can help practitioners deliver access to public benefits; and two states’ strategies to boost uptake—one dramatically lifting Medicaid access and another gaining applicants through school-based social services.
Participating Guests:
- Elizabeth Lower-Basch CLASP, Senior Policy Analyst
- Frieda Molina MDRC, Deputy Director
- Ruth Kennedy Louisiana Children's Health Insurance Program, Director
- Linda Schmidt Michigan Department of Human Services, Poverty Policy Director