Update on NCOA Benefits Enrollment Center grant

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Update on NCOA Benefits Enrollment Center grant

• Prepared for Maine SHIP/SMP webinar
• April, 2009
• Noëlle Merrill, Executive Director, EAAA
• Valerie C. Sauda, Director of Community Services,
  EAAA

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What is the grant

• The Benefits Enrollment Center grant was
  developed by NCOA to help give seniors and people
  with disabilities one stop shop option to obtain
  benefits
• Benefits include benefits such as
• Medicare Savings Program
• Medicare Part D and Low income subsidy
• SNAP (formerly food stamps)
• Maine property tax and rent rebates

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Who are the grant partners?

• Office of Elder Services
• Legal Services for the Elderly
• Maine Area Agencies on Aging
• Goodwill Industries, SCSEP program
• Maine Department of Labor
• St. Croix Regional Technical Center at Calais
  High School
• A multitude of towns, libraries, health centers

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Grant areas of coverage

• All the counties of Maine

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What are the models for BEC in Maine?

• Electronic kiosks-
• Computer screens that use touch screen technology
  strategically placed in rural community sites
• SCSEP trainees and volunteers will help provide
  support at the sites on use of the websites and
  to perform basic information and assistance about
  benefits

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Electronic kiosks
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New Kiosks
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Dinosaur Model from DOL
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Benefit Enrollment Center models in Maine

• Mobile van stations-
• Use of vans to deliver outreach and enrollment
  clinics throughout rural regions

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Reporting and data collection

• Reports will include numbers of people served and
  number of people enrolled in benefits for the
  grant period
• Anticipate that use of new models of benefits
  enrollment will help to increase number of people
  served especially in rural coverage areas

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For more information

• Contact
• Anne Smith, Legal Services for the Elderly
  asmith_at_mainelse.org
• Noelle Merrill, Eastern Area Agency on Aging
  nmerrill_at_eaaa.org
• Val Sauda, Eastern Area Agency on Aging
• vsauda_at_eaa.org