Through CLASP's Work Support Strategies initiative, six state took on the challenge of streamling their public benefit programs to better serve low-income people.

As part of our Work Support Strategies initiative, CLASP hosted a public forum discussing next steps in health and human services integration following the Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell. With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cemented as law, a panel of experts moderated by Louise Radnofsky of the Wall Street Journal discussed…

As part of the Work Support Strategies initiative, CLASP, Urban Institute, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities hosted a forum offering rich lessons about the path to state reform of health and human services programs in the context of the Affordable Care Act.…

CLASP's Elizabeth Lower-Basch interviewed Greg Kunz and Judy Lawrence on how they designed, tested, and implemented more effective, streamlined, and integrated approaches to delivering key supports for low-income working families.

Elizabeth Lower-Basch presented at the NLADA Litigation and Advocacy Leaders Conference on modernizing benefit systems on July 9, 2016.

This paper overviews key lessons states learned about streamlining their public benefit delivery systems through the Work Support Strategies initiative.

The rate of children without health insurance has hit an all-time low of 6 percent, according to a new report from the Center for Children and Families. The drop is largely attributable to ACA and to states’ efforts to increase enrollment.

Two new reports from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) and the CLASP-led Work Support Strategies (WSS) initiative offer practical, high-impact lessons on integrating systems through policy and technology reform. 

A new report from Work Support Strategies initiative describes what leadership looks like among state health and human services officials implementing large-scale systems reform.