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Clinicians and advocates ask committee to codify earlier cash assistance for pregnant people
Summary
Clinicians, advocates and legislators asked the committee to support H.272/S.171 to make permanent recent budget changes allowing cash assistance earlier in pregnancy and to remove a requirement that medical verification be provided before benefits are issued.
Clinicians, advocates and legislators asked the committee to report favorably on H.272 / S.171, bills to protect and codify expanded access to cash assistance for pregnant people.
Betsy Quinn of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute told the committee that the FY26 budget removed a thirty-year restriction that limited TFDC cash assistance to the third trimester; under the new budget language, cash assistance is available at any…
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