Posted on 12/28/2014 10:11:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Welcome to Montana's new one-stop wonder. The website where residents can apply for Obamacare, food stamps, and housing assistance in one convenient location.
The Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services' recently launched website streamlines the application process for various government assistance programs. The new system allows individuals to enter their information just once to apply for these three programs:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - Formerly Food Stamps
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - Cash assistance
Health Coverage Assistance - Medicaid, Healthy Montana Kids, health insurance assistance and tax credits through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace
The website encourages applicants to learn more about each program, but don't try clicking on the Health Coverage Assistance link, it's experiencing a few technical difficulties: 
This tweet about sums it up:
New Montana DPHHS web portal debuts
One Stop for Government Benefits
Does not include a job board
http://t.co/Cfehq6MbHy— Gordon (@cmegalodon69) December 28, 2014
Well here I am exposed as she who never listened to Zappa.
Dental floss tycoon is funny anyway. I actually did meet the insect repellant shelf paper tycoon. Long ago and far away.
Must be running out of wolf bait again.
I’ve only been to Miles City Montana in the summer time. It was cool then and I wondered how long summer would last. It was great to not see any other Texas license plates for a while. In fact I didn’t see many people along the way or in Miles City either. Everybody in Miles City went 175 miles to shopping center in Billings for shopping and entertainment. Sparsely populated, Miles City school district ran 50 miles out and back each day. Plenty of fresh air too but where I was it was dry red soil everywhere and not much greenery. Couldn’t make a living so I felt like moving was not in my family’s best interest at the time.
If you want to live in the boondocks, be sure you either have lots of disposable income, you have a job lined up or you can live off the land as a hunter/fisherman/rancher/farmer.
Confine rural sightseeing to that vacation outing when you have the itch to be in the great outdoors.
I just did a search and the largest industry in Montana is Agriculture
Actually underpopulation.
Just a snarky way of saying they will attract quite a few new residents perhaps...just the wrong kind
Not enough people signing up to suit the socialists.
Never a doubt in my mind, living off the land is harder that what you read about in the books. Raising your own food and livestock and solar and yada yada sounds great but it ain't for lazy people. Now that I am retired, I thought I could try some of that stuff you dream about here in Agony Acres (my name for my place in the countryside) near the DFW metroplex. Now, I'm busy all the time, sometimes wish I could go back to work and get some rest. Honestly, I enjoy it and it does keep me off the streets and out of Mrs. Texicanus' hair.
If I had saved my money I think I would rather be in Florida living at The Villages kicking back with the rest of the old folks./s
Miles City doesn’t sound appealing at all. Perhaps someday you’ll take a vacation at Glacier National Park. I haven’t been there yet, but it’s on my bucket list. Friends say it’s spectacular.
I don't think they could have grown rocks around Miles City from the way it looked to me. But agriculture makes sense since Montana is a big state. My friend in Miles City was a retired beekeeper so his bees must have found a source of pollen somewhere.
My father-in-law was impressed when he RVed through Glacier Park. Sold my Airstream before I could make it up there.
Wish Texas could send some of our “government assistant recipients” to Montana. We’re overloaded, here...especially with 0bola’s new imports from Central America.
Hmmm....maybe this needs to be advertised far and wide.
The largest employer in most states including mine(Minnesota) is government.
I am shocked: I thought the folks of Montana were independent, self sufficient people with a history of
distrust of the federal government.
How about a loan to my solar energy start-up?
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