OLR Research Report


January 10, 2005

 

2005-R-0017

HUSKY A AND B—ENROLLMENT AND EMPLOYER DATA

By: Robin K. Cohen, Principal Analyst

You asked for (1) the number of HUSKY A and B enrollees, with the adults broken down by gender; (2) employer information for HUSKY parents and caretaker relatives for the last few years; and (3) employer information for Temporary Family Assistance (TFA) and Food Stamp recipients.

We are still awaiting employer information for TFA and Food Stamp recipients. We will report this to you under separate cover.

SUMMARY

As of December 1, 2004, 305,689 people were enrolled in HUSKY A. Of these, 91,112 were adults aged 19 and older. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of the adults were women. The HUSKY B program had 15,254 enrollees (children under age 19) as of this date.

The same employers account for the highest number of employed parents of HUSKY A and B children. For example, Wal Mart employed the highest number of HUSKY A parents (824 in September 2004) and the second highest number of HUSKY B parents (79 in December 2004). The Department of Social Services (DSS) reports that the “top 25” employers in HUSKY A employed 6,653 parents in September 2004, which represented 13% of the approximately 52,000 working recipients. And an ad hoc DSS report from December 2004 shows that a relatively small number of employers (33) employed 14 or more parents (776 total) of HUSKY B children. Of these HUSKY B parents, most (475) worked more than 30 hours per week, while only 10% (77) worked fewer than 20 hours per week.

HUSKY EMPLOYMENT DATA

Table 1 lists the top 25 employers in HUSKY A and shows how many of them also employ parents of children enrolled in HUSKY B. Table 2 compares HUSKY B employer data in January 2004 and December 2004, along with hours worked per week by parents of these enrollees. The data shows that these employers employ a relatively small number of the total number of working HUSKY parents and caretaker relatives. It also shows that more than half of the adults working for these employers work at least 30 hours a week, with 90% working at least 20 hours. The data show that four employers' HUSKY B enrollments dropped to zero between January 2004 and December 2004. We asked DSS for an explanation and it had none. (We have also asked DSS for hours worked data for HUSKY A adults.)

Attachment 1 provides data for all employers with at least 10 HUSKY B enrollees. (Confidentiality concerns preclude DSS from releasing the names of employers who employ fewer than 10 enrollees.)

DSS was unable to provide employer data for previous years.

Table 1: Top Employers of HUSKY A and Their HUSKY B Enrollment

Employer

HUSKY A Enrollees

HUSKY B Enrollees

Wal-Mart

824

79

Stop n Shop

741

99

Dunkin Donuts

530

39

Laidlaw

460

65

McDonalds

460

16

Shaw's

288

22

Mohegan Sun

276

10

Burger King

243

0

CVS

221

0

First Student Inc.

212

21

Home Depot

197

45

ADECO

181

25

Friendly's

178

16

Companions & Homemakers

177

0

Filene's

177

17

Care 4 Kids

176

0

Foxwoods

176

0

Fleet Bank

173

29

Family Care VNA

159

39

Wendy's

145

0

Subway

144

16

Hartford Hospital

141

22

Walgreens

129

0

Sears

124

0

Target

121

0

Total

6,653

560

Source: DSS

Table 2: Top HUSKY B Employers and Hours Worked

Employer

Jan 2004 Enrollees

Dec 2004 Enrollees

Hours worked per week

<20

20-30

>30

Laidlaw

90

65

2

34

29

Stop & Shop

88

99

20

54

25

Wal-Mart

83

79

3

19

57

VNA

46

39

3

7

29

McDonanlds

40

16

2

4

10

Dunkin Donuts

37

39

3

18

18

J. C. Penney

36

22

3

3

16

Home Depot

35

45

6

11

28

Foxwoods

34

0

 

 

 

Hartford Hospital

27

22

0

3

19

First Student Transportation

23

21

1

13

7

Shaw's

22

22

2

8

12

Bank of America

21

29

1

5

23

Filene's

20

17

6

1

10

The Hartford

18

19

0

0

19

Peoples Bank

17

0 1

 

 

 

Webster Bank

17

17

1

2

14

Adecco

16

25

2

0

23

K-Mart

16

12

0

3

9

New England Home Care

16

15

1

5

9

Pinkerton

16

0

 

 

 

Mohegan Sun

16

10

2

1

7

CVS

16

0

 

 

 

Yale Univ.

14

13

1

2

10

YMCA

0

18

2

6

10

Friendly's

0

16

3

3

10

Kohl's

0

16

6

8

2

Subway

0

16

1

4

11

ACS

0

14

0

0

14

Dattco

0

14

0

2

12

Federal Express

0

14

3

0

11

Genesis Eldercare

0

14

1

5

8

Marrakech, Inc.

0

14

2

1

11

Middlesex Hospital

0

14

0

2

12

Totals

764

776

77

224

475

1 Entries of “0” in the second and third columns mean the employer was not one of the “top 25,” as reported in the “Jan. 2004” Enrollees column. It does not necessarily mean that the employer had no employees with children enrolled in HUSKY B.

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