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Field Ops Memo 2008-18: TAFDC, EA, FS, and EAEDC: Treatment of Federal economic stimulus payments

DTA
Federal economic stimulus payments received in 2008 are not countable as income for any of the 4 programs. For TAFDC, EA, and FS, the payments also are not countable as an asset in the month received or for two months afterwards. For EAEDC, they are not counted as an asset in the month received or…

New Initiative Memo 3/08: TAFDC-- DTA Internship Program

DTA
A supported work program in collaboration with the Corporation for Public Management, where TAFDC recipients will get entry level clerical positions in DTA offices with intensive supervision and training. It is for clients with substantial barriers, and is currently serving 6 clients.

Field Ops Memo 2008-12: TAFDC Vocational Specialists in TAOs (Phase Two)

DTA
In an effort to achieve our goal of increasing economic opportunities for our clients, the Department has developed a Vocational Specialist Program in our TAOs. The vocational specialists will help applicants and clients overcome barriers to employment by meeting with work program required…

Field Ops Memo 2008-15: Standard Medical Deduction for the Food Stamp Program (obsolete by Ops Memo 2014-16)

DTA
Obsoleted by Ops Memo 2014-16 (2/20/2014). Below is field guidance from DTA announcing the new "standard medical deduction" for elder/disabled FS recipients. USDA approved the Massachusetts request for a federal waiver in late December at the best of the FS Improvement Coalition and…

Field Ops Memo 2008-13: Medex Premium Rate Changes

DTA
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts has announced Medex premium rate changes for the following non-group plans: Basic, Bronze, Core, Core Plus, Gold, Silver, and Standard. These changes are effective on March 15, 2008. This memo: identifies the non-group plans that have changed and the…

Field Ops Memo 2008-14: Extending Food Stamp certification periods

DTA
Instructs FS workers (aka AU managers) to give elder/disabled households 24 month certification periods, and all other households 12 month certification periods (with listed exceptions for expedited FS, transitional benefits (TBA), Bay State CAP. etc). For many households, this means less frequent…

Tax Rebate Info for SSDI and VA pension beneficiaries

IRS flyer with info on tax rebates. Nontaxable SSDI & VA pension benefits count as "qualifying income" entitling benefiaries to rebate IF they file tax return.

Field Ops Memo 2008-11: EAEDC/Food Stamp Program: Disabled noncitizens receiving EAEDC but not receiving Food Stamps

DTA
Beacon has identified noncitizens who are eligible for Food Stamps by virtue of receiving EAEDC as disabled individuals but are not receiving Food Stamps. Outreach letters and Request for Assistance (RA-1) forms are automatically being sent to these individuals encouraging them to apply for Food…

Public Housing Notice 2008-01: Trespass Notices and Policies

DHCD

New Initiative Memo 3/08: TAFDC Franklin/Hampshire Employment Training Consortium Enhanced Services Program

DTA
The Franklin/Hampshire Employment Training Consortium is beginning a new initiative called the Enhanced Services Program. This new program will help TAFDC clients – both work program required and non-work program required – who would benefit from participating in skills training, job readiness and…

Hotline Focus 03/08

DTA
Food Stamps: health insurance premium as excess medical expense deduction when premium is paid by spouse and/or is for more than one person; TAFDC: "window immigrant" status for purposes of exception to sponsor deeming requirement.  Q. My food stamp client who is elderly and…

Field Ops Memo 2008-10: EA: Revisions to NFL-9 and NFL-ST and the Introduction of the NFL-ST/CA

DTA
Currently when an EA family is terminated from a temporary emergency shelter, the AU Manager or Homeless Coordinator completes either the NFL-9 or the NFL-ST notice online.  These notices have been revised to allow the  AU Manager or Homeless Coordinator additional space to annotate detailed…

Field Ops Memo 2008-09: TAFDC Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Program Expansion

DTA
Field Operations Memo 2007-60 concerned the Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) program. This FOM expands the groups of clients to which this program is being marketed.

New Initiative Memo 2/08: Cambridge College Courses; Human Services and Bridge to Community College

DTA
Cambridge College is offering three courses for the Spring 2008 semester for Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) clients who are currently residing in shelters in the Boston area. Cambridge College will offer courses in Human Services: Self Care for Helping Professionals, College Writing I…

New Initiative Memo 2/08: TAFDC/ESP Southbridge Transportation Initiative

DTA

2008 ABAWD waiver

USDA, FNS
FNS waiver of ABAWD work rules for certain towns and region. See charts re: which towns and region have FS work rules waived for 2008.

Field Ops Memo 2008-02: Food Stamp Program: Work Requirement Exemption Changes

DTA
State Letter 1331, effective January 7, 2008, clarified several criteria used to determine exemption from work requirements in the Food Stamp Work Program (FS/WP) and the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program (FS/ET).  These clarifications affect people who are over 59 years of age, caretakers,…

FYI February 2008 - Expansion of Office for Refugee and Immigrants (ORI) ESP Openings for TAFDC Clients

DTA
From FYI Transitions February 2008:  Expansion of Office for Refugee and Immigrants (ORI) ESP Openings for TAFDC Clients; T-A34/36 Form andPregnant Women Expansion of Office for Refugee and Immigrants (ORI) ESP Openings for TAFDC Clients DTA currently funds Job Search/Job Readiness with…

Hotline Focus 02/08

DTA
TAFDC and EAEDC: Recalculating lump sum disqualification periods when there has been domestic violence. Hotline Focus February 2008 Q.  Twelve months ago, a TAFDC client in our TAO reported that she received a lump sum payment from her insurance company. The amount of this payment closed the…

Field Ops Memo 2008-07: EAEDC: Rest Homes Per Diem Rate Changes Effective January 1, 2008

DTA
The Division of Health Care Finance and Policy (DHCFP) issued new public per diem rates for Massachusetts licensed rest homes, effective January 1, 2008.  Additionally, DHCFP approved a special adjustment rate as additional funding for rest homes for December 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.    As…

Field Ops Memo 2008-08: TAFDC, EA and Food Stamps- 2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines

DTA
The 2008 Health and Human Services (HHS) Poverty Guidelines were published in the Federal Register on 1/23/2008.  The HHS Poverty Guideline is used to calculate the eligibility standards in the following programs:  TAFDC: Income from the Parent(s) of a Teen Parent Under Age 18 (200 percent of…

603 CMR 23.07 -- Access to Student Records

These DOE regulations define the access that non-custodial parents have to their children's school records.

Field Ops Memo 2008-04: TAFDC Community Service and the Fair Labor Standards Act Calculation and Mass Minimum Wage Increase

DTA
Attached is a Field Ops Memo on calculaing the maximum number of hours someone can be required to do community service (dividing the grant plus food stamps by the $8 minimum wage), updated to take the increase in the MA minimum wage into account. The memo fails to state that child support assigned…

Field Ops Memo 2008-06: TAFDC Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) Expansion of Vocational Education Programs

DTA
The attached Field Operations memo. FO 2008-6, descibes training programs being offered by Jewish Vocational Services in culinary arts, medical office training and customer service (that may lead to one of the other programs), that may be appropriate for some clients. Vocational ESL and ABE are…

New Initiative Memo 1/08: TAFDC Mass Behavioral Health Partnership referrals

DTA
Attached is a New Initiative Memo on referrals from the Springfield Liberty TAO to the Mass. Behavioral Health Partnership.

New Initiative Memo 1/08: TAFDC Vocational Specialists in TAOs (Phase One)

DTA
To help applicants and recipients who have identified a medical disability or a learning disability overcome these barriers to employment, DTA will bring vocational specialists to all TAOs on an incremental basis. The vocational specialist will meet with work program required applicants and clients…

New Initiative Memo 1/08: TAFDC Vocational Specialists in TAOs (Phase One)

DTA
Vocational specialists will be introduced to all DTA offices, but starting with Brockon, Dudley Square, Fall River, Holyoke, Lawrence, Lowell, Malden, New Bedford, North Shore, Revere, and Springfield State Street. Certain TAFDC recipients who are subject to but not meeting the work program…

New Initiative Memo 1/08: TAFDC Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP) Referrals

DTA
Beginning February 1, 2008, DTA will partner with Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP) and Clinical and Support Options (a service provider of MBHP) to give our clients with behavioral health symptoms such as, mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety additional access to screenings,…

New Initiative Memo 1/08: TAFDC/ESP

DTA
The Project Hope new initiative will provide supported work services to 10 pre-selected families receiving TAFDC and living in Crittendon-Hastings House. The new initiative is through June 2008 only for the following TAO: Boston Family Housing. The goal of this program is to provide employment and…

Field Ops Memo 2008-05: 2008 Social Security/SSI COLA for TAFDC, EA, EAEDC, and Food Stamps

DTA

Proposed rules on individual mandate tax penalty

Dept. of Revenue notice of public hearing on Feb. 4, 2008 on proposed regulations on individual mandate tax penalty with link to text of proposed rules

Field Ops Memo 2008-01: Employment Services Program (ESP)-- Expansion of activities at certain community colleges

DTA
Describes new DTA-funded training slots at some community colleges with job placement at the end of the training.

Executive Order No. 495

Deval Patrick, MA Governor
Executive Order issued by Gov. Patrick on January 11, 2008. Among other things, the EO directs state agencies to change their hiring practices to allow people with CORIs to compete for jobs, and seeks to simplify rules for considering the CORIs of people who are seeking public housing.

Hotline Focus Index 2007

DTA
Index to 2007 Hotline Focus questions. An index to “From the Hotline” questions and answers published in Transitions during 2007 is compiled in the January 2008 Transitions.  The index is intended to provide quick access to policy information. Please remember that this index explains…

SSA Redbook on Work Incentives, 2008 edition (with link to 2007 Red Book in Spanish)

SSA
A Summary Guide to Employment Supports for Individuals with Disabilities under the SSDI and SSI programs.  Includes work incentives, work expenses, trial work, ticket to work, PASS, subsidy, IRWE, substantial gainful activity.

Social Security Administration Website

SSA

2008 DTA Facts and Figures

DTA

2008 - DTA Transitions Newsletters From 2008

DTA
DTA Transitions newsletters for 2008: December 2008:  DTA planning to purchase shelter units across nine regions, to place families closer to their home communities.  In addition, we are purchasing units that reflect the diverse and changing needs of families, including those that…

2007 Field Operations Memos Index

DTA

Field Ops Memo 2007-66: Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), MA Earned Income Tax Credit, and Child Care Assistance Mailing

DTA
In January 2008, the Department will issue the annual informational mailing for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Massachusetts Earned Income Credit (EIC) and Child Care Assistance. The mailing will be sent to all active TAFDC clients, all former TAFDC clients whose cases closed as of January 1,…

2008 SSI Payment Levels and SSI/SSDI Thresholds

Charts with 2008 SSI payment level and SSDI and SSI thresholds are attached.  Also attached, courtesy of Gail Havelick at the Department of Public Health, are kids' SSI eligibility charts. 

Field Ops Memo 2007-65: 2008 Social Security/SSI COLA for TAFDC, EAEDC and FS

DTA
The Social Security and SSI Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLA) have been scheduled. Effective January 2008, Social Security benefits and SSI payments will increase by 2.3 percent. The basic Medicare Part B premium will increase from $93.50 to $96.40 per month. This Field Operations Memo identifies:…

Field Ops Memo 2007-64: Clarification of the Noncompliance Process

DTA
In June 2007, the Commissioner sent a letter to all shelter providers and TAO Directors informing them that the Department was planning to review current EA regulations and procedures as they relate to homeless sheltered families, specifically around the noncompliance process. On October 9, 2007 a…

Translation Woes: Language Barriers at New York City’s Human Resources Administration

Amy Taylor and Dimple Abichandani, Legal Services for New York City
Overview In New York, Limited English Proficiency (“LEP”) communities are growing at a rapid pace. The report observes that nearly 50 percent of New Yorkers do not speak English at home. Language access at agencies providing vital public benefits is of paramount importance as LEP…

FYI: Separate Household Status for Certain Disabled Adults

DTA
Under food stamp regulations at 106 CMR 361.200 (Household Concept), a person who lives with others but purchases and prepares meals separate and apart from others can be a separate household. USDA has clarified that this provision also applies to any person who is too disabled to purchase and…

Hotline Focus 12/07

DTA
Q. I received an application today from an 82-year-old disabled man who receives $913 per month in Social Security benefits. He lives with his 41-year-old daughter and two teenaged grandchildren. His adult daughter's gross income is $1,108.00 per month and there is no other countable income in…

Field Ops Memo 2007-63: Statewide Implementation of the Virtual Gateway Consumer Face Food Stamp Application

DTA
Effective November 29, 2007, people can apply for Food Stamps over the internet from anywhere in MA.

Field Ops Memo 2007-60: TAFDC Family Self Sufficiency Program

DTA
This voluntary program is an interagency arrangment that allows certain non-exempt TAFDC recipients who have Section 8 to participate in a 5 year program with case management and services to help the person become employed. Once the person is employed, the increased tenant rent portion resulting…

Field Ops Memo 2007-61: EA Changes: NFL-9, NFL-ST Revisions; Accommodating Request from EA Family for Information

DTA
EA notices have been updated to include local case worker phone number. This FOM also directs local offices to provide EA families with all of the documentation regarding the reason for adverse action if the family requests such information, and lists the documents that must be provided. 

Public Housing Notice 2007-10: Clarification of Allowable Medical Expenses

DHCD