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OLR Research Report


July 22, 2011

 

2011-R-0263

HUSKY EMPLOYERS

By: Robin K. Cohen, Principal Analyst

You asked for an update of 2009-R-0217, which reported the top 25 employers of people who receive, or whose kids receive, HUSKY A (Medicaid) benefits.

Table 1 lists the top 25 individual employers whose employees' children, and in some case the employees, were receiving HUSKY A as of May 24, 2011. It also compares the total enrollments with those reported in February 2005 and 2009. (DSS reports that local boards of education, the self-employed, housekeepers, and day laborers, in the aggregate, have total enrollments that would fall in the Top 25. For purposes of this report, we look only at individual employers.)

The number of child recipients may be overstated as some may be counted twice. That is because a child conceivably could be living in a two-parent household in which one caretaker is receiving HUSKY A and the other is not.

Table 1: Adults and Children Covered by HUSKY A and Top 25 Individual Employers as of May 24, 2011

Employer

Child Recipients Whose Parents Do Not Receive HUSKY A

Caretaker Recipients Receiving HUSKY A [1]

Caretaker HUSKY A Recipients' Children

May 2011 Total Recipients

April 2009 Total Recipients

2005 Total Recipients [2]

% Change 2005-2011

Walmart

439

1,189

2,026

3,654

3,741

2,232

63.7

Dunkin Donuts

420

1,103

1,663

3,186

3,153

1,438

121.6

Stop and Shop

414

940

1,474

2,828

2,372

1,996

41.7

McDonald's

628

519

784

1,931

1,915

1,290

49.7

First Student (transit co.)

86

623

1,236

1,945

1,471

565

244.2

Mohegan Sun Casino

204

359

626

1,189

843

762

56.0

Companions and Homemakers

107

375

619

1,101

892

419

162.8

Home Depot

105

303

527

935

696

571

63.7

Care 4 Kids

128

286

484

898

1,021

457

96.5

Burger King

173

239

362

774

725

632

22.5

Macy's

86

247

426

759

626

487

55.9

CVS

98

263

396

757

732

579

30.7

Foxwoods Casino

133

207

374

714

572

501

42.5

Shop Rite [3]

64

240

375

679

Not in Top 25

Not in Top 25

NA

Walgreen's

101

223

329

653

568

306

113.3

Family Care Visiting Nurse

89

201

354

644

Not in Top 25

377

70.8

Hartford Hospital

101

172

350

623

483

401

55.4

Subway

127

199

290

616

679

341

80.6

Friendly's

78

212

319

609

Not in Top 25

422

44.3

State of Connecticut

137

155

291

583

Not in Top 25

Not in Top 25

NA

Kohl's

76

185

290

551

577

Not in Top 25

(4.5) since 2009

Monroe Staffing

77

171

301

549

Not in Top 25

Not in Top 25

NA

JC Penney

60

182

302

544

Not in Top 25

Not in Top 25

NA

Almost Family

74

167

297

538

Not in Top 25

Not in Top 25

NA

Bank of America [4]

73

169

285

527

550

498

(5.5)

Source: DSS; OLR reports 2005-R-0281, 2009-R-0217

[1] The income limit for adult caretaker relatives in the HUSKY A program increased from 150% to 185% of the federal poverty level in 2007.

[2] In 2005, OLR did not have exact child recipient numbers. It used a multiplier of 1.37 children per adult to arrive at an approximate number of child enrollees. The multiplier was based on the average size of a HUSKY A “assistance unit” or family receiving HUSKY A coverage in February 2005.

[3] Shop Rite took over several Shaws supermarkets in 2010. Shaws was in the Top 25 in 2005 and 2009. In 2005, it had 754 employees and their children enrolled in HUSKY A.

[4] In 2005, Bank of America was Fleet Bank in Connecticut.

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