Benefit Access and Enrollment Since the Onset of COVID-19

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Article Publication Date: 
11/1/2021
Summary: 
COVID-19 is a long-lasting and complex disaster situation involving a public health emergency and an economic crisis, with particularly acute impacts for older adults, people with disabilities, and others with certain health conditions. States are responding with changes in policies and procedures to ensure individuals have access to public benefit programs (e.g. Medicare Savings Programs, LIS/Extra Help, SNAP, and LIHEAP). ADvancing States has a new brief highlighting where states are with benefit access and enrollment since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results in the brief comes from the 2021 ADvancing States Membership Survey: COVID-19 Benefits Access and Enrollment, a follow-up to the 2020 survey.
Article Author: 
ADvancing States
Populations: 
Advocates; Aging/Older Adults
Sources: 
ADvancing States
Programs/Initiatives: 
Aging and Disability Resource Center

Contact

Elaine Sawyer
VA
United States
esawyer@advancingstates.org
Phone: 
2022640812

Short URL: http://www.nasuad.org/node/73270