Program Example
Virtual Gateway, Hampden County Correctional Center
Case managers at the Hampden County Correctional Center use a unified, Web-based application to enroll people who are incarcerated in the Center into various public benefits programs that people become eligible to receive upon their release. The Web-based application, “Virtual Gateway,” enables case managers to submit a centralized, streamlined application for food stamps; MassHealth (the state’s health insurance program for certain low- and medium-income individuals); Supplemental Security Income (SSI); Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI); and other benefits. Case managers enroll people in these programs while they are incarcerated and then suspend their eligibility until the jail notifies the Social Security Administration of their release.
CSG does not endorse any of these programs