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PPER Email 2014: H-EAT- Related Changes Effective with August 2014 BEACON Build

DTA
In preparation for the implementation of the revised H-EAT Program, this email explains changes effective with BEACON Build 46.4, scheduled for August 25, 2014. The changes include: 1. Two new housing types will be added to the Address page and to the paper SNAP application, recertification and…

Funeral/Burial- Application for Payment of Expenses F & FD-1

DTA
Form to apply for funeral expenses from DTA. English F & FD-1 Spanish F & FD-1(S) Click the "Go to Website" link below for the forms included in DTA's Online Guide.

Ops Memo 2014-49: OBSOLETE TAFDC and EAEDC – Self-Declarations and a New Form

DTA
Obsoleted by Ops Memo 2014-49A Overview:  As part of the recent welfare reform legislation, it is now required that all self-declarations be signed under penalties of perjury. Attached is a form (Attachment A) that may be used for this purpose.  Purpose of Memo: This…

PPER Email 2014-22: Same-Sex Marriages and Household Composition for SNAP

DTA
USDA/FNS provided guidance on the status of same-sex married couples, in response to a June 2013 Supreme Court decision. Effective July 28, 2014, same-sex spouses residing in the same household must be considered to be purchasing and preparing meals together

PPER Email 2014-19: End of Year ESP Referrals

DTA
TAO staff is advised that Employment Services Program (ESP) referrals for our clients can and should continue to be made to the Competitive Integrated Employment Services (CIES), Massachusetts Office of Refugees and Immigrants (MORI) and the Young Parent’s Program (YPP) through the end of this…

EEOC Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues

EEOC
In July 2014, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued updated guidance on pregnancy discrimination.  Download the guidance from EEOC's website, https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/pregnancy_guidance.cfm EEOC has also issued Questions and Answers about this…

Ops Memo 2014-44 A: TAFDC – Updated Orientation PowerPoint Presentation and TAFDC Orientations

DTA
Overview A key component of the TAFDC program is engaging clients in work-related activities to move families with dependent children to selfsufficiency. The Department is committed to connecting applicants and clients (hereafter referred to as clients) with the resources and supports necessary…

Ops Memo 2014-46: TAFDC – Welfare Reform: Raising the Fair Market Value Exemption

DTA
Overview As part of the new welfare reform legislation, the Fair Market Value (FMV) exemption for vehicles (see 106 CMR 204.120(G)(1)) is being raised from $10,000 to $15,000. There is no comparison of the Fair Market Value to the Equity Value as the first car does not have Equity Value attributed…

Ops Memo 2014-45: TAFDC – Learnfare Probation and Sanction Suspensions During July and August

DTA
Overview The TAFDC Learnfare requirement mandated that any child of a nondisabled grantee who is age six (or in first grade, whichever occurs later) through age 13 must attend school regularly. Verification of attendance must be obtained for any child who is subject to the Learnfare requirement. To…

Massachusetts Office of HIV/AIDS

Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Centralized Waiting List (Massachusetts)

Massachusetts Centralized Section 8 Waiting List
Eighty-one (81) Massachusetts housing authorities utilize this one computerized list; all applicant information entered onto this list can be accessed and updated by any and all participating housing authorities. The site also includes information about how to apply to the Centralized…

RAFT Fiscal Year 2015 Administrative Plan

DHCD
This Administrative Plan will govern the provision of RAFT (Residential Assistance for Families in Transition) assistance and will be incorporated into the contracts between DHCD and the RAFT Administering Agencies.

DHCD EA Monthly Report, Statewide Summary

DHCD
DHCD statistics about Emergency Assistance and shelter placements.  Includes data about EA applications and placements, EA shelter/motel placements, reason for placements, EA caseload, EA exits, RAFT, and expenditures. DHCD posts recent monthly reports, and quarterly reports going back…

Ops Memo 2014-33A: Electronic Document Management (EDM) Release 2.0 – Clarifications

DTA
Overview Operations Memo 2014-33: Electronic Document Management (EDM) Release 2.0, issued April 24, 2014, advised staff about: changes to document processing at the TAO and by fax and mail; changes to DTA myWorkspace (MWS); and the creation of a fax cover sheet for client…

Ops Memo 2014-41: Implementation of eNotification

DTA
Overview Effective with BEACON Build 46.3, scheduled for June 16, 2014, the Department will implement an optional eNotification initiative. eNotification is a faster and cost effective way for the  Department to communicate with clients by informing them by email when notices and forms are…

Ops Memo 2014-39: External Agency Data: Registry of Motor Vehicles - New BEACON Functionality

Overview In an ongoing effort to enhance program integrity, DTA continues to expand real time online data matches provided by external sources. In July 2013, DTA obtained expanded access to the MassDOT Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) database. This access provides information on state issued…

Ops Memo 2014-40: Registry of Motor Vehicles – Asset Verification and Processing

DTA
Overview Operations Memo 2014-15 introduced the expansion of access for Department employees with the MassDOT Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) database. This access allows staff to view the image of applicants and clients (hereafter referred to as clients) when available, as well as the title…

Ops Memo 2014-43: BEACON Customer Concern Tracking System

DTA
DTA Overview The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) requires States to maintain records and the dispositions of complaints received from potential applicants, applicants, clients and other concerned individuals or groups. The data collected will be used…

Ops Memo 2014-28: Changes to Photo EBT Card Procedures

DTA
Overview Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2013 requires that certain EBT cardholders be issued EBT cards with photographic images. Operations Memo 2013-55 advised DTA staff about this change as well as about a mailing made to all clients impacted by this change. Operations Memo 2013-57A outlined the…

Ops Memo 2014-29: Changes to Photo EBT Card Issuance

DTA
Overview Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2013 requires that certain EBT cardholders be issued EBT cards with photographic images. The Department has begun implementation of this law. Operations Memo 2013-55 and 2014-18 advised DTA staff about this law, a mailing to all clients impacted by this change and…

Ops Memo 2014-36: Program Integrity (PI) Checklist BEACON Integration – Phase 2, and Other Enhancements to Processing External Agency Matches

DTA
Overview Operations Memo 2014-23: Program Integrity Checklist Overview introduced the Program Integrity (PI) Checklist project, and Operations Memos 2014-21: New York State Match along with 2014- 24: Enhancements to External Agency Match Processing introduced initial systems changes in support of…

PS 10-1: DES Guidelines for Out of Office Use of Personally-Identifiable Information (PII)

DES

Ops Memo 2014-30: SNAP: Fault Determination, Proration and Reinstatement for Delayed Applications, Recertifications and Case Maintenance Activities

DTA
Overview This Operations Memo updates Department procedures related to the delayed processing of applications, recertifications and case maintenance activities. When a case is denied or closed and the client returns to the agency seeking benefits within 30 days of the denial or closing, the…

Ops Memo 2014-42: SNAP: Collecting New Utility Information

DTA
Overview Section 4006 of the Agricultural Act of 2014, also known as the Farm Bill, included new rules for States regarding Heat and Eat (H-EAT) programs. To comply with requirements in the bill, the Department developed new utility statements that require “yes” or “no”…

Education resources for children in foster care

US Department of Education
The US Department of Education released new guidance whose goal is to support the education needs of children in foster care. New Guidance on Uninterrupted Scholars Act Press Release Students in Foster Care (new Department of Education page with resources) Joint letter with US Department…

Hotline 6/14: When college students come home for the summer - SNAP

DTA
Q. 1. My SNAP client had been living alone. At her recent recertification interview, she reported that her 19-year-old daughter, who is a full-time student during the school year, has just moved back home. This daughter was unemployed while at school and is currently still unemployed. Also, the…

EPSDT-A Guide for States: Coverage in the Medicaid Benefit for Children & Adolescents

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has just published a Guide to the Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment benefits for children and youth under age 21 in Medicaid. The 38 page EPSDT Guide was written in collaboration with the National Health Law…

Student Health Insurance and Subsidized Plans

Mass. Health Connector
Memo from the Health Connector reminding colleges and universities that under the Jan 2014 Student Health Insurance rules, the following programs are comparable coverage and eligible for a waiver of the school's student health insurance plan: Commonwealth Care, ConnectorCare, MassHealth (except…

PS 98-05 Use of "Good Cause" related to CE appts.

DES
Revised May 27, 2014. This is the revised version.

PPER Email 2014-18: Annual Reporting (AR) Households Received Employment Verification Notice in Error Due to Automated Department of Revenue (DOR) Match Processing

DTA

DHCD Tenant Selection Adjudicatory Hearing Decision Index XXXV

DHCD
Includes decisions from November 21, 2013 to May 20, 2014.

PPER Email 2014-14 – Incorrect Learnfare Mailing

DTA

Ops Memo 2014-35: Date of Discovery for Benefit Fraud/Overpayment Referrals

DTA
Overview Whenever a case manager discovers that an overpayment of benefits in any of the Department’s programs has occurred, an Accounts Receivable (AR) fraud/overpayment referral must be created. When establishing the fraud/overpayment referral in BEACON, a date of discovery must be entered…

PPER Email 2014-17: Annual Reporting (AR) Households Received Closing Notice in Error Due to Automated Department of Revenue (DOR) Match Processing

DTA

GN 00210.706 Same-Sex Marriage – HI Premium Reduction for Aged and Disabled Individuals

Social Security Administration
This transmittal outlines the policies and procedures for adjudicating Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance, HI) premium reduction requests for aged and disabled individuals who are seeking a premium reduction based on quarters of coverage of a current or former same-sex spouse. On June 26, 2013,…

Ops Memo 2014-38: Conversion from GED to High School Equivalency Test (HiSET) Testing and Vouchers

DTA
Overview Massachusetts has replaced the existing GED test with the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET). TAFDC clients wishing to obtain a high school equivalency certificate will do so through the HiSET. HiSET will cover the same five test areas (Language Arts Reading, Language Arts Writing,…

Same Sex Couples -- Social Security

Social Security Administration
Click the "Go to Website" link below to visit the Frequently Asked Questions - Same Sex Couples section of the SSA website.

PPER Email 2014-16: Annual Reporting (AR) Cases Closed due to External Agency Match Processing Specific Department of Revenue (DOR) Matches

DTA

DTA Standard Budgets of Assistance for FY 2014 - Report to Legislature

Department of Transitional Assistance
DTA's report to the MA Legislature on comparison of TAFDC benefits levels to the Standard Budgets of Assistance for FY 2014.

Hotline 5/14: Shelter and Utility income and deductions

DTA
Q. 1. My SNAP client is getting recertified this month (June, 2014) and she has been participating in HEAT. Since H-EAT was not run in the month of April, what should I do with this client’s utility expenses at recertification? A. 1. Until further notice, leave this client’s case with…

Ops Memo 2014-37: EAEDC- 2014 Rest Home Public Per Diem Rate Changes

DTA
Overview The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), working through the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) issued new public per diem rates for Massachusetts rest homes, effective June 1,2014. Additionally, rest homes were approved for a special per diem rate,…

Electronic Document Management (EDM)

MLRI
What is Electronic Document Management? Electronic Document Management, or EDM, is the new document management system used by DTA to scan and keep track of client forms and documents (verifications). EDM changes how documents are received by DTA. Documents are now processed out of one…

UIPP 2014-04 - Reasonable Assurance for Adjunct Professors

Department of Unemployment Assistance
This memo communicates DUA's revised policy regarding adjudication of reasonable assurance issues for adjunct professors.  Note that the previous policy regarding adjunct professors, as set forth in the Service Representatives Guide SRH 1557J, has been rescinded.

Ops Memo 2014-33: Electronic Document Management (EDM) Release 2.0 OBSOLETE

DTA
Obsoleted by Ops Memo 2014-33A (June 19, 2014). MLRI information:  Below is DTA's descripion of Phase II of the new DTA Electronic Document Management (EDM) process, including a new fax option. Advocates are optimistic that this EDM project will improve collection and tracking of client…

PPER Email 2014-15: EDM Release 2 Clarification of Documents Considered Urgent

DTA

Ops Memo 2014-34: TAFDC Work Program Requirement Discrepancies Report

DTA
Overview A new Actuate report called the TAFDC Work Program Requirement Discrepancies Report has been developed to identify Work Program requirement inconsistencies for clients in an active TAFDC case. Purpose of Memo The purpose of this memo is to: advise staff of the TAFDC Work Program…

Ops Memo 2014-32: EAEDC: Centralization of Rest Home Cases

DTA
Purpose of Memo The purpose of this Operations Memo is to inform DTA staff that all application and case management activities for EAEDC Living Arrangement E: Rest Homes cases have been centralized in the Central Rest Home (CRH) unit established as part of the Central Eligibility Processing (CEP)…

PPER Email 2014-13: Revised Voucher Procedures for High School Equivalency Testing

DTA
The Commonwealth has replaced the existing GED test with the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET), which is being administered through a new vendor, as the testing system to measure whether adult learners and out-of-school youth qualify for the Massachusetts High School Equivalency…

Ops Memo 2014-31: Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Extended for Haiti

DTA
Overview In January 2010, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designated the country of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) following a major earthquake that occurred in Haiti on January 12, 2010. TPS is a temporary immigration benefit, authorized under Section 244 of the Immigration…

Hotline 4/14: Less than 5 years LPR status and SNAP

DTA
Q. 1. My SNAP applicant is an 18-year-old who is also a noncitizen. She currently lives alone after recently separating from her spouse and moving out of her father’s home. Her father entered the country 12 years ago with an LPR status and my SNAP applicant entered the country with an LPR…