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DOR Health Reform Pages

Including Schedule HC, and other related DOR material. Because enforcement of the Individual Mandate occurs through tax filing, the Department of Revenue is now in the Health Reform enforcement business.

Work Verification Plan for TANF Reauthorization

DTA
Massachusetts Work Verification Plan For Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) Reauthorization.

MassHealth instructions to pharmicies on dual eligibles

Medicaid Office publication for pharmacies describing state assistance for MassHealth members with Medicare drug coverage: up to 72-hour emergency supply of drugs if Medicare drug plan doesn't pay & copay subidy so copays do not exeed $1 for generic $3 for brandname plus Medicare "point of…

Connector Representative Form

Affordability Info Sheet from the Health Insurance Connector

Health Insurance Connector
A worksheet developed by the Health Insurance Connector to give people an idea whether insurance will be deemed affordable to them under the Individual Mandate. An interactive version of this worksheet and a Spanish version are posted at www.mahealthconnector.org.

August 2007 Transitions Letter from Commissioner re: Sanction Policy

The Commissioner's letter in the August 2007 Transitions Newsletter summarizes the steps that should be taken before a recipient is sanctioned for noncompliance with the work program. These include a full explanation of the the work program, asking clients about potential barriers, and referral to…

Dept. of Early Education and Care Policies on subsidized child care

Dept. of Early Education and Care

DMH Human Rights Handbook (rev. 2007)

Department of Mental Healh
As described by DMH: "The Department of Mental Health's (DMH) Human Rights Handbook is a companion to the DMH Human Rights policy. The handbook defines and explains the regulations, statutes and policies that protect Children/Adolescents and Adults in facilities and programs operated…

Good news on access to the Free Care/Uncompensated Care Pool for US citizens (Updated)

Vicky Pulos, MLRI
Good news on access to the Free Care/Uncompensated Care Pool for US citizens See "Interested Parties Memo" below from the Office Of Medicaid Until now U.S. citizens who applied for health benefits could not get an eligibility determination for the Uncompensated Care Pool (UCP) until…

Public Housing Notice 2003-07: Shelter to Housing (S2N) Program Emergency Case Applicants

DHCD

Civil Monetary Penalty and Administrative Sanctions Provisions Are In Effect

In two notices  (below) in the May 16, 2007 federal register, SSA announced the operation of the  centralized computer system that was the prerequisite for imposing civil  monetary penalties for withholding information from or failing to provide information to SSA. The…

Revised Office of Medicaid Form for Massachusetts birth certificate

The Office of Medicaid has revised the form to be used to request a record of Massachusetts birth from the Vital Statistics Office. The birth record will be sent back to the Office of Medicaid not the applicant. An applicant born in Mass. who needs a copy of the birth certificates can obtain it…

Substantial Gainful Activity Thresholds for 1978 - 2007

SSA

AHVP Memo February 27, 2007

DHCD

Dependents' coverage extended to older children

MA Division of Insurance
This Massachusetts Division of Insurance Bulletin implements a provision of the 2006 health reform law requiring carriers who offer dependent coverage to continue coverage until the earlier of the child's 26th birthday or 2 years after the child loses dependent status under federal tax rules.

Public Housing Notice 2007-01: Wage Match for State Housing Program Tenants

DHCD

Earnings Required for a Quarter of Coverage (1978-2007)

From the POMS

DTA letter requiring appeal of SSI denial and offer of appeal assistance from UMMS (certain areas only)

Department of Transitional Assistance
Sent to EAEDC recipients in certain pilot areas whose applications for SSI benefits were denied.

2007 SSI Payment Levels and SSI/SSDI Thresholds

Includes SSI federal benefit and state supplement at all living arrangements, SGA threshold, Trial Work Period threshold, child allocation, and other thresholds.

2007 DTA Facts and Figures

DTA

U Mass memo on Social Security Appeals Project

Dayce Moore, SS Appeals Unit, UMASS Medical School
Memo from U Mass on the reasoning behind, and goals of, the new Social Security appeals project in which U Mass representatives will assist EAEDC and TAFDC recipients with SSI appeals.

Memorandum by Chief SSA Administrative Law Judge Cristaudo on UI Availability for SSDI Recipients

Frank A. Cristaudo
This memo clarifies that application or receipt of UI benefits does not mean per se ineligibility for SSDI benefits.   July 2011 Update:  advocates should be aware of a negative case on this issue, Roberts v. Astrue, Slip Copy, 2011 WL 3163257 (D.Mass.), holding that the ALJ…

SSR 82-40: THE VOCATIONAL RELEVANCE OF THE PAST WORK PERFORMED IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Step 4.

SSR 00-4p: TITLES II AND XVI: USE OF VOCATIONAL EXPERT AND VOCATIONAL SPECIALIST EVIDENCE, AND OTHER RELIABLE OCCUPATIONAL INFOR

Step 4 and step 5.

Public Housing Notice 2006-11: Clarification on Homeless Priorities in Tenant Selection for State-Aided Programs

DHCD

Public Housing Notice 2006-10: SAPHIRE Phase I Training Registration

DHCD

AHVP Memo August 14, 2006

DHCD

SSA Form for Plan for Achieving Self-Support (SSA-545)

SSA
PASS

Public Housing Notice 2006-09

DHCD

Public Housing Notice 2006-09: Revised Income Limits for Admission and FMRs for Continued Occupancy

DHCD

CMS fact sheet on requirement that US citizens verify citizenship

CMS
The federal Medicaid agency (CMS) has published interim final rules implementing the provision of the DRA requiring US citizens to verify citizenship & identity. Unlike earlier guidance, the rules exempt citizens who are SSI & Medicare recipients from having to prove citizenship. The…

MassHealth Changes on July 1, 2006

Changes in MassHealth effective July 1 include: restoration of optional benefits to adults; new smoking cessation benefit; increase in income eligibility for children & youth under age 19 to 300% of poverty, and implementation of federal rules requiring US citizens to verify citizenship &…

Notice to Members of New & Restored Benefits

This is the notice MassHealth mailed to members telling them about the July 1 2006 benefit improvements; more detailed information for providers and emergency rules are now or will soon be posted at https://www.mass.gov/topics/masshealth

MassHealth Announcement of Verification Requirement for US Citizens

MassHealth
This is the announcement MassHealth has prepared describing how it will implement a new federal law requiring US citizens applying for Medicaid after July 1, 2006 to verify that they are citizens

Public Housing Notice 2006-06: Carbon Monoxide Alarms Required

DHCD

Public Housing Notice 2006-07: DHCD Carbon Monoxide Alarm Compliance for State-Supported Public Housing

DHCD

Public Housing Notice 2006-08: Carbon Monoxide Alarm Application Forms

DHCD

Public Housing Notice 2006-05: FAQs on purchasing energy supply contracts and reporting

DHCD

Public Housing Notice 2006-04: Boiler and Machinery Insurance

DHCD

Public Housing Notice 2006-03: Contracting now for Electricity and Gas Supplies

DHCD

Final Rule: Administrative Review Process for Adjudicating Initial Disability Claims (3/31/06)

Final regulations implementing the Disability Service Improvement process. 71 Fed. Reg. 16424 (3/31/06). Administrative Review Process for Adjudicating Initial Disability Claim

Public Housing Notice 2006-01: Applicants from Nursing Homes

DHCD

Public Housing Notice 2006-02: Procedures for renting barrier free units for applicants in nursing homes

DHCD

Stepping Stones to Recovery - A Case Manager

By the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Mental Health Services

MCAD & Karl Hanson v. DSS

Full Commission
This is an important MCAD CORI related opinion that is hard to find on MCAD website although you can get it on Westlaw. In a nutshell, employer should not ask about or use juvenile records.

More FY 06 AHVP Changes

AHVP Memo February 1, 2006

DHCD

MassHealth Pharmacy Notice re Emergency Part D drug coverage

MassHealth
Notice to pharmacies explaining how to bill MassHealth when they cannot access Part D coverage for dual eligibles

2006 Children's SSI Payment Charts and Income Guides

2006 SSI payment charts and income eligibility guides for children. Also info about the SSI Student Earned Income Exclusion.  Prepared by Gail Havelick, MA Department of Public Health,  Bureau of Family and Community Health, Division for Perinatal, Early Childhood…

Proposed PCA rules

MassHealth has proposed rules to exclude only family members who are legally liable for the support of the MassHealth recipient, such as a spouse or the parent of a minor child,  from being personal care attendants.  This is a liberalization of the current rule which excludes family members who are…