SUN Bucks provides $120 in grocery benefits across a summer per eligible school-age child. The federal government covers the benefit, and splits administrative costs 50-50 with states.
Despite Thursday’s positive forecasts, Republican state fiscal leaders showed no signs of any spending boosts for the tight budget that took effect July 1.
The plan is described as a “collaborative effort” to be jointly led by the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration and the Indiana Department of Health.
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration said Wednesday that it was recalculating benefit allotments to 274,000 SNAP households in the state.
Indiana’s hospital systems could face hundreds of millions of dollars in annual Medicaid reimbursement cuts if the rates they charge to employer-provided insurance plans are higher than thresholds set by Gov. Mike Braun’s administration.
Over the course of a decade, Indiana’s per-enrollee costs for certain Medicaid recipients are expected to surge by 43% and 72% for lower-income and elderly Hoosiers, respectively.
The bill would allow single-owner child care companies or nonprofits, like YMCAs, to open multiple locations under one license.
The orders largely direct state agencies to audit current programs and coverage as a means to find health care savings.
The Family and Social Services Administration will be one of the four state agencies participating alongside the governor’s office in the Children with High Acuity Needs Project.
In August’s hearing, all parties acknowledged a statewide nursing shortage that made such services difficult to obtain.
Former Gov. Mitch Daniels first introduced the consumer-driven, cost-sharing approach in 2007 when the state expanded Medicaid to moderate-income workers. Gov. Mike Pence developed the program even further.
Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch on Tuesday called for an independent, outside audit of the Family and Social Services Administration following a $1 billion Medicaid overspend that triggered a review of agency programs.
An agency bill that passed unanimously out of committee died Thursday in an unusual move following the addition of several bipartisan amendments seeking transparency and accountability on a $1 billion Medicaid funding shortfall.
Following a specially called meeting to review a list of several proposed changes to Medicaid, stakeholders seemed dissatisfied with the agency’s explanations and urged FSSA to halt its cuts.
Allison Taylor is set to resign “later this summer” after eight years with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration and six years as Medicaid director—and as the program makes drastic post-pandemic adjustments.
A minority-owned staffing agency based in Batesville has filed a lawsuit in Marion County against a New Jersey-based company that alleges the out-of-state firm owes it $10 million related to a contract with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration.
Sullivan—who took a high-profile role in statewide televised weekly press conferences during the pandemic—will be departing after the longest tenure of any secretary in the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration’s 30-year history.
A three-year educational and marketing effort in Indiana called “Know the Facts” aims to build interest through simple, understated messages on billboards, buses, broadcast commercials and social media.
The count was taken in January, so it doesn’t consider the number of people newly experiencing homelessness because of the pandemic.
Many Indiana families will begin receiving government benefits this week to make up for the meals their children are missing while school buildings are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
