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Committee reviews benefit‑assister funding and a Health Care Advocate base increase
Summary
Committee considered a $5 million request for benefit assisters to support Medicaid and SNAP enrollment and a $450,000 base increase request for the Office of the Health Care Advocate; Mike Fisher said the office’s base is about $2.0M and that funding comes from multiple sources including industry bill‑backs and a small Medicaid match.
The committee reviewed administrative support requests including a $5 million proposal to fund benefit assisters who would help with Medicaid enrollment, re‑enrollment and SNAP eligibility and a $450,000 request to increase the Office of the Health Care Advocate’s (HCA) base budget.
Speaker 1 described benefit assisters as staff who would be…
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