{"id":126711,"date":"2025-03-13T23:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/?p=126711"},"modified":"2025-03-14T04:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:22:52","slug":"nava-wins-work-helping-minnesota-build-their-paid-leave-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/nava-wins-work-helping-minnesota-build-their-paid-leave-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Nava wins work helping Minnesota build their Paid Leave program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re thrilled to announce we\u2019ve received a prime award to help Minnesota build their new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/info.paidleave.mn.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paid Leave program<\/a>, which will launch in January 2026. For this two-year contract, we\u2019ll partner with Minnesota\u2019s Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) to build a Paid Leave benefits portal for applicants, employers, and agency staff to manage the program, as well as a backend platform that integrates with other state services.<\/p>\n<p>Nava is a public benefit corporation on a mission to make government services simple, effective, and accessible to all. We\u2019ll leverage our deep expertise in benefit delivery systems to help Minnesota develop a Paid Leave program that\u2019s human-centered, adaptable, and resilient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honored to partner with Minnesota on this important effort that will support about 3 million Minnesota workers and their loved ones,\u201d said Nava CEO and co-founder Rohan Bhobe. \u201cThis is our third opportunity to help design and build a state\u2019s paid leave program as the prime or co-prime contractor. Massachusetts\u2019 program is considered best-in-class, and we\u2019ll look to their successes and best practices in our partnership with Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.navapbc.com\/case-studies\/using-a-pilot-to-minimize-risk-and-rapidly-deliver-new-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nava has partnered with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts<\/a>\u00a0on its paid family and medical leave (PFML) program. In just 13 months, we helped Massachusetts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.navapbc.com\/case-studies\/using-a-pilot-to-minimize-risk-and-rapidly-deliver-new-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">design, build, test, and launch<\/a>\u00a0a new PFML program that helps workers apply for and manage PFML benefits. Since its launch in 2021, the program has paid out more than $3 billion in benefits and supported nearly 500,000 unique applicants and their families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navapbc.com\/news\/nava-wins-minnesota-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the news here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re thrilled to announce we\u2019ve received a prime award to help Minnesota build their new\u00a0Paid Leave program, which will launch in January 2026. For this two-year contract, we\u2019ll partner with Minnesota\u2019s Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) to build a Paid Leave benefits portal for applicants, employers, and agency staff to manage the program, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1189,"featured_media":77059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[461084],"tags":[850976,4270],"class_list":["post-126711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-company-news","tag-nava"],"acf":{"uuid":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.orangeslices.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/22001853\/Untitled-design-70-1.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-03-23 23:38:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126712,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126711\/revisions\/126712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}