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Who Are Undocumented Immigrants

Iris Gomez, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
A fact sheet prepared by Iris Gomez, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.

Fair Employment Project

Fair Employment Project, Inc. is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce violations of employment civil rights by providing assistance and information to Massachusetts workers and their advocates.

State Secrecy and Child Deaths in the U.S., An Evaluation of Public Disclosure Practices About Child Abuse or Neglect Fatalities

Child Advocacy Institute and FirstStar
Joint Report of Child Advocacy Institute and First Star. Mass gets a D-. DSS responds that report looks at disclosure laws on the books rather than DSS actual practices. Child Advocate says disclosure of case details to the public not the relevant criterion.

DTA Language Statistics

 Includes data from multiple years including 2008. 

MassHealth Premium Hardship Waiver

Hardship Waiver for MassHealth Premiums

GN 02201.040 Collection of Title II/Title XVI Overpayments by Administrative Wage Garnishment (AWG)

SSA
POMS Section: GN 02201.040 

Transportation benefits chart

Chart of different transportation reimubursement options for clients receiving benefits.

Thousands of MassHealth Households Subject to Termination for Non-Payment of Premiums

Starting in March, somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 MassHealth households who are currently responsible for premiums will receive notices that they are in substantial arrears on their monthly MassHealth premiums, and that they will be put on a six month payment plan to pay off their arrearage. …

Proposed individual mandate tax penalties for 2008

Tax penalties proposed for tax year 2008 for those uninsured adults with access to affordable insurance.

Emergency Rooms -- Wrong Place for Mental Health Care

Susan Stefan, CPR
Center for Public Representation attorney Susan Stefan has an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe about the treatment of people with mental illness in hospital emergency rooms.

Guidelines for Being a Strong White Ally

Paul Kivel
What does allyship look like in practice? Paul Kivel, author of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice, has published a set of guidelines on the kinds of support white people can provide to a person of color as a daily practice. 

Legislative Committee Listings

MLRI
This is an explanation and listing of the various committees of the Massachusetts Legislature.

Draft Agenda for November 16, 2007 SSI Coalition Meeting at LACCM

Draft Agenda - SSI Coalition MeetingFriday November 16, 2007LACCM405 Main Street, 4th Floor, Worcester, MA9:30 - 10:00 Continental Breakfast 10.00 - 11:00 Barbara Kinney, Assoc. Commissioner, Worcester DDS11:00 - 12:00 What's On the Horizon For DSI ? Ray Kelly, Linda Landry 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (on…

MMPI Looks at Rosie D.

Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute
The Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute has released a new policy paper looking at the opportunities and challenges faced in the implementation of Rosie D. v. Romney lawsuit. This issue brief explores the implications and potential effects of the case and the resulting proposed remedy on the…

Connector Hardship Q&A

Hardship criteria explained for the Individual Mandate

Connector Affordability Worksheet in Spanish

Connector Affordability Worksheet English

The Affordability worksheet is used to determine whether there is an affordable health insurance product available to an individual or household.  Persons determined to have no affordable coverage are exempt from the Individual Mandate.

Connector Certificate of Exemption Application (Individual Mandate)

For 2007 tax year, this needs to be filed by December 1, 2007. The form must be submitted by December 1 to be considered. However, someone who doesn’t submit the form can still receive a hardship exemption from the mandate by reporting similar information on their state tax return. In fact,…

A Systemic Approach to End Homelessness

Applied Systems Thinking Journal - David Peter Stroh and Michael Goodman
This article provides a case study of how Systems Thinking was applied by the authors with a community brought together by the Battle Creek Homeless Coalition to address the chronic homelessness in surrounding Calhoun County. Through this collaboration involving broad multi-sector representation,…

Children's Rights to Medical Services under EPSDT

MLRI
Summary of the rights of children under age 21 to early, periodic screening, diagnostic and treatement (EPSDT) services under Medicaid (MassHealth). UPDATE: Please note the address of the Board of Hearings has changed since the attached Memo was written. The address of the MassHealth Board of…

October 2007 Food Stamp increases

Federal food stamp allotments and deductions increase effective October 1, 2007. DTA's notices for October still use the old amounts, but people should receive the increased amounts in October. A chart from the Food Research Action Center with the new amounts is attached.

Summary of Health Access Developments in FY 2008

MLRI
Summary of fiscal 2008 budget items and administrative developments affecting access to MassHealth, CMSP, Prescription Advantage, Free Care (Health Safety Net), Commonwealth Care and implementation of the "Individual Mandate" to have health insurance--with citations.

From the Free Care Pool to the Safety Net Pool

Slides of a presentation describing conversion of the existing Free Care Pool to the newly proposed Safety Net Pool

Establishing Disability For Young Adults (July, 2007)

Linda Landry and Tom Yates
 By Linda Landry, DLC, and Thomas Yates, Health and Disability Advocates.  SSI and SSDI disability benefits and work incentives for children and young adults.  July, 2007 

Draft Agenda for July 13, 2007 SSI Coalition Meeting at LACCM

DLC
DRAFT AGENDA SSI Coalition Meeting Friday, July 13, 2006 Legal Assistance Corporation for Central Massachusetts 405 Main Street, 4th Floor, Worcester, MA 9:30 - 10:00 Continental Breakfast 10.00 - 11:00 Barbara Kinney, Assoc. Commissioner, Worcester DDS 11:00 - 12:00 SSA Backlogs, DSI Update and…

Senate Finance Committee Hearing (6/21/07): Barriers to Work for Individuals Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Immigration Links -- International Resources and Country Condition Reports

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
The following are immigration related International Resources and Country Condition Reports: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission:  Includes LGBT-specific country reports and international jurisprudence Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Index: Index of…

Important July 1st 2007 Health Changes

Important July 1st Health Program Changes Effective July 1st, the following changes are being taken to further implement health care reform. No premiums for households under 150% of poverty in MassHealth or Commonwealth Care- In MassHealth alone, close to 19,000 households who are currently paying…

NAPABA Report "Increasing Access to Justice for Limited English Proficient Asian Pacific Americans"

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA)
In May 2007, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) published a report for action titled, "Increasing Access to Justice for Limited English Proficient Asian Pacific Americans". The report summarizes the state of language access services for Asian Pacific Americans…

CORI: Opening Doors of Opportunity

Report from the Boston Foundation on CORI and Employment.

Subsidy and Special Conditions (VCU January 2006)

Briefing paper by Virginia Commonwealth University Benefits Assistance Resource Center on Subsidy and Special Conditions. These are work incentives available to rebut evidence of ability to perform Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) for purposes of SSI/SSDI eligibility and continuing SSDI.

MLRI's Food Stamp Policy Recommendations to Patrick/Murray Administration

Attached is a missive to the Patrick/Murray Administration (EOHHS and DTA) with over 40 specific recommendations to improve customer service, FS participation of under-served households and increase the monthly FS benefit amount. This document represents FS improvements identified at FS Coalition…

POMS SI 01415.039 on SSI State Living Arrangements and State Supplements for 2007

SSA

Next SSI Coalition Meeting is Friday March 9th at LACCM - Agenda Attached

DRAFT AGENDASSI Coalition MeetingFriday, March 9, 2007Legal Assistance of Central Massachusetts405 Main Street, 4th Floor, Worcester, MA508-752-3718; 800-649-37189:30 - 10:00            Continental Breakfast 10.00 -…

Executive Order 478. “Order Regarding Non-discrimination, Diversity, Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action."

Office of the Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Click the "Go to Website" link below or see PDF for Executive Order 478 by which Governor Deval Patrick promotes equal opportunity in agency programs, activities, and services and ensures that agency programs, services, activities and decisions do not discriminate against persons with…

GBLS flier on interpreter rights at DTA

GBLS
Written for advocates, including lay advocates.

What advocates need to know about expanded coverage under the new health reform law

MLRI
This January 2007 memo outlines new coverage options for people under 300% of the poverty level under the 2006 health reform law including Commonwealth Care for uninsured adults and expanded Family Assistance for children.

Virtual Gateway application statistics (Food Stamps, WIC, Medicaid)

Attached is a file with Virtual Gateway applications taken by mainly health care and some community based organizations. There are TWO sets of data - one is the weekly stats for the last week of December 2006, the other is the TOTAL Gateway applications taken since the inception of the Gateway,…

Draft Agenda for January 19, 2007 SSI Coalition Meeting

DLC
9:30 - 10:00               Continental Breakfast 10.00 - 11:00             DSI and the Electronic File - Recent Developments: DDS issues (John Reilly, Assistant…

SSA-3377-BK, Function Report - Child Age 3 to 6th Birthday

SSA
SSA uses Forms SSA-3375-BK through SSA-3379-BK in the disability determination process to request information from a child's parent or guardian for children applying for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The five different versions of the form contain questions about the child's day-to-day…

Interpreting Communities: Lawyering Across Language Difference

Muneer Ahmad
This article, by Muneer Ahmad, highlights the complexities of layering across language differences particularly in poverty law. The article examines the many struggles in representing LEP individuals and invites readers to reimagine the traditional attorney client relationship when an interpreter is…

FRAC Guide to Food Stamp Outreach Collaborations

FRAC
The FRAC Guide to Food Stamp Outreach Collaborations provides detailed information and weblinks on best practices for food stamp outreach with a wide range of community based and government partners and information on pre-screening and on-line application tools.

Parent Response to Proposed IEP and Proposed Placement.

Memorandum on the Implementation of 603 CMR 28.05(7): Parent response to proposed IEP and proposed placement Department of Education staff in the Program Quality Assurance Services office and the Special Education Planning and Policy Development office have received numerous questions related to…

Sanctions: GBLS flier on how to avoid and undo sanctions

Know your rights flier.

Facilitating Reentry of Formerly Incarcerated People: A Systemic Approach

David Peter Stroh
From the introduction: The multiple organizations and people required to solve a chronic, complex problem often do not appreciate the many ways in which their work is connected. To address this issue the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org) convened The After Prison Initiative, a gathering of…

SSR 85-15: TITLES II AND XVI: CAPABILITY TO DO OTHER WORK

Step 5. Grids.

SSR 94-1c: ILLEGAL ACTIVITY AS SUBSTANTIAL GAINFUL ACTIVITY

SSA Announces 3.3% COLA for 2007

Text version online at https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/index.html.  Pdf version attached.Highlights of 2007 changes:Substantial Gainful Activity (non-blind): $900/mo.Substantial Gainful Activity (blind): $1500/mo.Trial Work Period threshold: $640/mo.SSI Federal Benefit Rate: $623 (individual); $934…

SSA publishes proposed revisions to the Immune System Listings, 71 Fed. Reg. 44431 (8/4/06)

SSA
Published at 71 Fed. Reg. 44431 (8/4/06). Comments due by 10/2/06. Available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2006-08-04/content-detail.html. Affected are the Immune System Disorders Listing, 20 CFR Pt. 404 Subpart P Rules 14.00 and 114.00. The immune system listings, including the HIV/AIDS…

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition