Two state agencies have reached a settlement with a legal advocacy group in a lawsuit over the state’s problem-plagued welfare-benefits management program.
Under the settlement agreement, signed Wednesday, the state Departments of Human Services and Health Care Policy and Finance must provide monthly reports detailing the benefits applications filed that month and whether they were processed in the required amount of time. The settlement also requires the agencies to ensure that recipients wrongfully denied benefits receive those benefits in a timely manner.
The Colorado Center on Law and Policy brought the suit in 2004 on behalf of welfare and food-stamp recipients who had their benefits wrongfully denied or delayed as a result of problems with the Colorado Benefits Management System, or CBMS.
