MassHealth responds to questions and notes compiled by advocates during site visits to MECs.
Tools from MLRI can help translate some knowledge of a person’s immigration status into eligibility.
The Retirement Estimator gives personalized estimates of how much individuals can expect to receive when they retire.
A one-page chart clearly outlines who can receive which benefits and under what circumstances.
Massachusetts residents with questions about medications or difficulty paying for them can get help.
A one-page summary sheet describes what QSHIP covers, what limits exist and how it works with other state health programs.
Households with elders or disabled members see the greatest benefit.
MassHealth will not count federal economic stimulus rebates as income, but can consider them assets after an exemption period.
This winter, about 100,000 households in the Commonwealth were protected from losing their heat, electricity and other utilities by the state utility shut-off protection laws, which prevents shut-off for households whose circumstances meet certain conditions. This protection ended on May 1, and people have begun getting shut-off notices. These notices are bad news, but CAN be used to request a MassHealth premium waiver or Commonwealth Care premium waiver.
An overview of major parts of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law.
