Policy Tools

Toolkits

• Toolkit: Increasing WIC Coverage Through Cross-Program Data Matching and Targeted Outreach (2022)
• Toolkit: Using Text Message Outreach to Reduce SNAP Churn (2021)
• Toolkit: Medicaid Churn (2021)

Briefs & Blogs

• Blog: Keeping People Covered: Medicaid During COVID-19 and Beyond (2021)

• Blog: An Early Look at the Impacts of the Response to COVID-19 on Medicaid Churn (2020)

• Issue Brief: Streamlining SNAP for the Gig Economy: Simplified Self-Employment Expense Deductions (2020)

• COVID-19 Response Brief: Facilitating Remote Application Assistance for SNAP During COVID-19 (2020)

• COVID-19 Response Brief: Suspending SNAP Cases Receiving UC (2020)

• Issue Brief: Fast Track: A quicker road to Medicaid enrollment (2019)

• Issue Brief: Internet Use Among Older Adults (2017)

• Issue Brief: Telephonic Signatures (2013)

Research Publications

• Report: Matching Data Across Programs Can Increase WIC Enrollment (2021)

• Report: Targeted Text Message Outreach Can Increase WIC Enrollment (2021)

• Report: Using Data Matching and Targeted Outreach to Enroll Families With Young Children in WIC (2021)

• Case Study: Increasing SNAP Participation (2015)

• Case Study: Hunger in Maryland Case Study (2014)

Additional Resources / Publications

• BDT's Response to RFI by Office of Management and Budget: Methods and Leading Practices for Advancing Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through Government (2021)

• Webinar: Facilitating Remote SNAP Application Assistance During COVID-19 (2020)

• Fact Sheet: GuardRails Strategy (2018)

• Advocacy Guide: Elderly Simplified Application Project (2017)

• Infographic: Fast Track (2017)