Benefits Tech

tags
Law and Technology Civic Technology

Using technology to deliver public benefits.

B.C. Benefits Connector
Benefits Finder - Canada.ca
Mes Aides (OpenFisca)
PolicyEngine (OpenFisca)
USA health insurance: Claim File Helper (ProPublica)

Discussion

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide — Code for America
Deloitte builds a lot of outsourced benefits tech systems, and sucks at it1
L.A.’s Scoring System for Subsidized Housing Gives Black and Latino People Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Scores
Rotterdam's welfare fraud scoring system2

Footnotes:

1

Samantha Liss Pradhan Rachana, “Errors in Deloitte-Run Medicaid Systems Can Cost Millions and Take Years To Fix” (KFF Health News, September 5, 2024), https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/deloitte-run-medicaid-systems-errors-cost-millions-take-years-to-fix/.

2

Eva Constantaras et al., “Inside the Suspicion Machine,” Wired, March 6, 2023, https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/.