Legal Advocacy Guides (EA, TAFDC, SNAP, EAEDC)
Welcome to the Benefits Practice Area section. Benefits is a large practice area including food stamps, cash assistance (TAFDC, EAEDC), emergency assistance, and welfare-related employment support services such as child care and transportation.
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Resource Library Materials: Browse the library by topic by clicking on a link in the sidebar to the left. If a listed topic also has subtopics, you can find out what these are by clicking on the triangle. Or, use the search, particularly if you want information on cross substantive issues or wish to restrict your search to a particular kind of document.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that families residing in emergency shelter have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their bedrooms and that the shelter staff had neither actual nor apparent autho Read More
Quality Control: The SNAP Quality Control System measures the accuracy of State eligibility and benefit determinations. Read More
Q. My client applied for TAFDC today, February 3rd. She recently stopped working and received her last pay from work on January 27th. Read More
Field Operations Memo 2010-17 informed TAO staff that changes to the Virtual Gateway Common Intake Application was to take place on February 24, 2010. This deployment has been postponed. Read More