BENEFITS DATA TRUST
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Mission Statement
Benefits Data Trust (BDT) helps people live healthier, more independent lives by creating smarter ways to access essential benefits and services through the innovative use of data, technology, and public-private partnerships.
About This Cause
Through direct service delivery and systems change efforts, Benefits Data Trust (BDT) works to improve health, social, and economic outcomes, streamline the benefits application and enrollment process, and reduce administrative costs for government and nonprofit agencies. BDT is headquartered in Philadelphia and operates programs in Colorado, Maryland, New York City, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. Since its inception in 2005, BDT has submitted over 850,000 benefits applications for low-income households across the country, securing over $7 billion in benefits for food, healthcare, heating and other services that help move individuals and families toward financial stability -- more than any other single entity in the US. BDT’s unique structure puts critical elements of systems change all under one roof. Together, our four main teams--Data Science, Programs, Contact Center, and Policy--give BDT deep contextual knowledge of the lives of our clients and the work of our partners and generate actionable insights. Information gleaned from our direct service operations informs the policy team’s work to improve policies. Similarly, insights from the data science team allow us to continually refine the custom-built tool used by BDT’s direct service operations to enroll individuals in a suite of essential benefits and services. BDT is a national leader in benefits access with an innovative service delivery model built upon targeted data matching, streamlined enrollment assistance, and comprehensive, person-centered support. BDT’s data-driven and cost-efficient model has been proven to help states maximize SNAP participation, reduce Medicaid spending, stimulate economic growth, and ease administrative burden to significantly move the needle on SNAP participation among older adults. Multiple independent evaluations of BDT’s work, including by Mathematica and MIT’s Poverty Lab, have documented our impact and cost effectiveness. A recent randomized trial involving 30,000 older adults in Pennsylvania found that BDT’s outreach and assistance tripled SNAP enrollment and generated $20 in food assistance for every $1 spent on outreach and assistance. BDT also co-led two other peer-reviewed studies involving more than 54,000 Maryland residents on both Medicare and Medicaid. The research found SNAP participation reduced their odds of nursing home admission by 23 percent and of hospitalization by 14 percent. This study also found that BDT’s work decreased caseworker workload by 30 minutes per case. Based on this research, economists estimate that enrolling eligible people ages 65 and older in SNAP reduces annual healthcare costs by $2,120 per person. As a result, enrolling all eligible seniors in SNAP could save over $10 billion in annual healthcare costs. BDT evaluates its work on an ongoing basis in order to track project success and course-correct in real-time as necessary to yield the best possible outcomes.