More than 60% of people requesting an emergency grant waited between 31 to 153 days for help. Federal law requires that Emergency Solutions Grant Program funds be paid within 30 days.
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 9:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative Brief
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 @ 6:38 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the launch of a new online portal for North Carolinians receiving or looking to apply for Medicaid.
Published: Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 @ 11:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced it has upgraded the mobile-friendly ePASS website to include a Spanish language option.
Published: Tuesday, November 10th, 2020 @ 2:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) released improved online applications for Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) that will help both North Carolina families and county Departments of Social Services (DSS) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2020 @ 9:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Roy Cooper recently made it easier for people to apply for Medicaid coverage during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2020 @ 12:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The House proposed budget lowers some taxes, creates others, and cuts against the grain of past Republican efforts to prioritize savings reserves as a rainy day buttress to economic downturns and natural disasters.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 9:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The child welfare component of the state’s NC FAST computer system is a $92 million money pit
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2019 @ 9:53 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The Office of State Budget and Management, in consultation with the North Carolina Department of Health Human Services' Division of Social Services, has awarded a $2.5 million contract to SLI Global Solutions LLC subsidiary, the Center for the Support of Families, to provide technical assistance
Published: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 2:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Department of Health Human Services' Division of Social Services collaborated with the Office of State Budget and Management, which today released a request for proposal seeking a qualified vendor to conduct assessments of the state's current social services and child welfare programs and d
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 @ 1:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Child welfare service offices in five North Carolina counties started using technology this week in a pilot project that will contribute to improving the safety, permanency and well-being of children and families
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 12:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There are "widespread differences" that are "not what you would call easy" to resolve between House and Senate health care budgets, is state Rep. William Brisson's assessment of budget deliberations in the N.C. General Assembly.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory's 2015-2017 biennium budget continues his focus on job creation, education and infrastructure. It also increases help and protection for those that cannot help themselves while maintaining fiscal discipline and increasing government efficiency.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 8:29 am
By: Chris Downey
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Our budget commits more than $10.8 billion in Department of Health and Human Services funding over the biennium, or more than 24 percent of the General Fund annually, to support the well-being of our most vulnerable citizens...
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 6:27 am
By: Chris Downey
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Tuesday, October, Monday, November 3, 2014 6, 2014
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 2:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am a primary care physician with over 20 years experience delivering care in the Army and to North Carolina's Medicaid population, and currently run a pediatric clinic in Burlington.
Published: Sunday, April 27th, 2014 @ 10:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Secretary Aldona Wos announced today that, despite last week's revelation of an additional 8,100 cases in Guilford County, DHHS is optimistic that the state and counties have reasonably achieved the USDA's March 31 milestone.
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos held a late afternoon conference call with legislators to provide an update on NC FAST regarding the status of compliance with the USDA standards for Food and Nutrition Services (food stamps).
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 8:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Politicians don't get to choose the crises they face while in office but they can choose how they will react to them. Their responses often determine both their tenure in office and how history judges them.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today's updated numbers show that North Carolina continues to make significant progress toward meeting federal requirements for processing FNS (food stamp) applications and recertifications.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 5:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Counties across North Carolina continue to make headway toward the February 10 goal for eliminating backlogs of FNS (food stamp), with more than 1,100 additional applications processed on Tuesday.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 11:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina families are seeing the benefits of improving FNS (food stamp) numbers across the state as DHHS works collaboratively with our county partners to meet the USDA milestones for February 10.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 1:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State and county workers across North Carolina have reduced the backlog of FNS cases (food stamps) by just over 72 percent in the last 10 days, ensuring benefits for thousands of families.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 12:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This is an update on DHHS' most recent interaction with USDA.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The liars in the remnants of our state's mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Before Obamacare, before individual mandates, before exchanges, there was Medicaid. Started in 1965 under President Johnson as part of his War on Poverty, Medicaid extended health insurance coverage to low-income Americans.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Peppering her remarks with fiscal horror stories, state Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos told lawmakers Wednesday she is reforming a harried department in organizational meltdown.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 11:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Buoyed by Gov. Pat McCrory's announcement that he does not support expanding Medicaid rolls or creating a state-run health insurance exchange, a state House committee voted Tuesday over Democrats' objections in favor of...
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 8:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor McCrory released the following statement on North Carolina's implementation of the Affordable Care Act in the lead up to the February 15th deadline set by the federal government.
Published: Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 @ 11:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat and his troops are headed to battle stations over the bill passed by the state Senate which blocks ObamaCare-related Medicaid expansion.
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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