Food Stamps: name changed to SNAP, dependent care deductions uncapped, fewer verifications required, unused benefits remain available for longer period of time, MA gets award for being first in country re: timely processing of benefits, use of benefits rising; Receipt of H/EAT benefits make a person eligible for heating and cooling SUA for period of one year, even if address and living situation change; Food Stamp COLA; DTA continuing to provide FS community service sites; TAFDC Work Program requirement changes; Temporary and replacement MassHealth cards; Globe Santa mailing; Revised posters and list of posters required to be displayed at TAO's; Verifying extended UI benefits.

Department obligations under the ADA; ESP regulation change; Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Regional Nonprofit (RNP) referrals list; TAFDC clothing allowance; EAEDC eligibility for disabled adults who do not meet TAFDC noncitizen eligibility requirements; Orientation powerpoint as an application activity; Revised Food Stamp recertification notice; Beacon 3.0; 2008 Fuel Assistance mailing.

New Mass Health cards and returned mail; Simplified Food Stamp application process for elderly applicants; Family Self-Sufficiency procedural change; Vocational specialists in TAO's; Food Stamp work program exemptions for ABAWDs.

TAFDC Family Self-sufficiency program; Homless Child Care FAQ; Food Stamp ABAWD waiver; EA noncompliance Q & A; EAEDC: TAO director override re: SSI applications and appeals; Vendor payments terminated when cases are transferred to new local office and must be reinitiated, but not when transferred to centralized TAFDC office.

Confidentiality of case record information and Beacon heightened level of security;  ADA accommodation requests-- time requirements; expansion of Food Stamps categorical eligibility; Food Stamp verification of disability for elderly noncitizens receiving EAEDC; Curing FS work program sanctions; Denying cases for missed interview; Increase in federal mileage rate; TAFDC participation and attendance forms.

Treatment of federal economic stimulus payment; restoration of monthly migration process for SSI/FS households; spring 2008 Food Stamp H-EAT update; case closings due to failure to verify for the IRS match; Food Stamp Supplemental Nutrition Assistance; Returned mail procedural changes; Food Stamps-- stimulus package rebate is subject to interception for outstanding Food Stamp arrearages; eligibility of Afghan and Iraqi citizens with special immigration status for TAFDC and Food Stamp benefits; TAFDC relocation benefits qualifications; helping domestic violence victims verify eligibility;

Disabled noncitizens receiving EAEDC but not receiving Food Stamps; Vocational specialists in TAO's (Phase 2); Medex Premium rate changes; Extending Food Stamp certification periods; Standard medical deductions for the Food Stamp program; Department interpreter services enhancements; New Initiative: DTA internship program; Homeless Child Care-- revised Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) shelter contact list; New Inititative: Franklin/Hampshire Employment Training Consortium Enhanced Services Program; New Initiative: Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP) referrals: Springfield Liberty and Worcester TAO's; 2008 Health and Human Services (HHS) 2008 Poverty Guidelines; BEACON-generated child care referral notice for Homeless Child Care Assistance; Clarification of Work Requirement Exemptions.

TAFDC: Employment Services Program (ESP) expansion at certain community colleges; Family Self-sufficiency program contact list; Community service Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) calculations and increase to MA minimum wage; New inititative: referrals to Mass Behavioral Health Partnership; New initiative-- vocational specialists in TAO's; EA-- right to a fair hearing; expansion of Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI) ESP placements for immigrants; TA-36 and 34 form and pregnant women.

Relocation benefits resulting from foreclosure noncountable for TAFDC, EAEDC, and FS up to $7,500, instructions re:EA cases; EA: clarification of the noncompliance process; SSI COLA increase; Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), MA Earned Income Credit (EIC), and child care assistance mailing; MA minimum wage increase.

EA alternative placements-- hotels, motels; EAEDC: helping noncitizen recipients become citizens; Food Stamps: all Heat and Eat (H-EAT) Fuel Assistance update and ongoing households recalculation; EAEDC: personal needs allowance (PNA) increase; TAFDC: orientation session incentive payments; how to enter child support income (for which family member).

TAFDC: DTA orientation sessions, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) agreement client survey, ESP online guide; Emergency Assistance: Prevention services through the Housing Assistance Program (HAP); Food Stamps: Change to notices for categorically eligible households with zero benefit amount, COLA; TAFDC and FS: eligibility of Cuban-Haitian entrants; EAEDC: Personal needs allowance (PNA) increase; Immigrants: Expired documents

TAFDC: clothing allowance; Averaging student work hours; Food Stamps: increase in federal mileage rate; Fuel assistance.

TAFDC-- Clarification of the Family Cap Exemption/Waiver Request Process, Automated mailing to caretakers of disabled family members, ESP Pre-worksite training and supported work name and procedure changes; Automating IRS matches; Federal Minimum Wage; Negative errors; EA-- Self-Sufficiency plans re: budegeting strategy and public housing applications; Guide for entering text on notices and forms;  Beacon-- entering participation and attendance forms; Food Stamp Quality Corner: noncitizen income, medical deductions.

EA-S2H Toolbox relocation  initiative clarification; Fuel Assistance Program Initiative and Cleanup; Food Stamps: elimination of signature page for virtual gateway applications and virtual gateway enhancements; EA-- Toolbox; Client Survey new initiative; Food Stamps-- Brockton call center new initiative; EA-- right to a fair hearing; Legal Permanent Resident noncitizen requirements; Food Stamps: Travel allowance on pay check does not count as income.

TAFDC: Individual Development Account (IDA) for education advancement new initiative;  Food Stamps: Calculations for legal permanent residents who do not provide sponsor deeming information, Processing nonrecurring medical expenses; Project SAFE update; TAFDC and Food Stamp eligibility for battered noncitizens.

EA-- S2H (Shelter to Housing) Toolbox Relocation Initiative; EAEDC-- Rest homes per diem rate changes; EA-- noncompliance decisions and notices; Mass 2-1-1 program; Verifications; ADA accommodations when cases are transferred; Prison match; TAFDC for applicants and recipients with ineligible dependent children; types of noncountable reimbursements and income.

EA Shelter: 20 mile tracking procedures; TAFDC: ESP pre-worksite training and supported work, Extension Approval period change, vocational rehab services referral, elimination of welfare to work component on Beacon, health insurance offered question on Beacon, child care referral notice and procedural changes, ; Food Stamps: Beacon-generated application letters and notice of missed interview, verification of dependent care expenses, community serivce and the automation of the Fair labor Standards Act (FSA) calculation, Bay State Cap enhancements, medical deductions job aid; Beacon-generated verification checklist; Impact of MassHealth citizenship rules on TAFDC, EAEDC, and F.

FOR Families staff reassingment; Earned income Tax Credit and Child Caare mailing; TAFDC-- Participation tracking actuate report; TAFDC-- Department obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act; Mass Health citizenship verification for EAEDC and TAFDC applicants; New Initiative: SSI online applications; New Inititiative-- former Davis Square shelter placements; Bay State CAP standard utility allowance; Bay State access card issuance.

TAFDC-- Department responsibilities re: OCR resolution agreement on learning disabilities; SS/SSI COLA; The Work Number; Food Stamps-- misc. admin. changes; TAFDC-- ESP increased capacity; Medicare Part D deductible changes for 2007

EA: revision to the notice of approval, denial, or termination for Emergency Assistance or Other Financial Services and Procedures for Noncompliance referrals and EA notices; TAFDC and EAEDC: Applicant citizenship verification for Mass Health eligibility; TAFDC: Community service stes clean-up project; TAFDC: Early Education and Care additional policy changes; Special procedures in Colon v. Wagner court order; Food Stamp reporting requirements; increase to minimum wage; MBTA fare changes; Project SAFE additional sitesl EAEDC: interim benefits reimbursement form; Case record access and Beacon.

TAFDC: ESP component Job Search/  Job Readiness, new 5 year (60 month) period; Food Stamps: eliminating rights and responsibilities penalty page as separate signature page, new inititiative on education and training for Food Stamp recipients at risk of losing benefits due to noncompliance with work requirement, work study income; All cash and FS programs: SSI COLA; EAEDC and TAFDC: Social Security Appeals Project new initiatives; Beacon: attributing shelter costs; Food Stamps Quality Corner: household composition issues.

TAFDC: Community Service and the Fair Labr Standards Act, EEC changes to child care services; RAFT;  Emergency Assistance: Presumptive eligibility; DES medical release forms; Food Stamp Quality Control: Income for family cap child.

Automatic closing for TAFDC/SSI recipients;new ESP component: Job Search/Job Readiness; Food Stamp COLA; EA shelter transfer request; Food Stamp permanent verifications; Group home residents needs to be on regular Food Stamps and are not eligible for Bay State CAP; Expiring IPV disqualifications; Voluntary request to close case mailings; Work program sanction desk guide.

TAFDC-- work program participation review phase 3: age school through 8, authorizing batch sanctions and removing interrupted sanctions, and TAFDC recipients receiving SSI; FS-- program access review; TAFDC clothing allowance; FS-- employment and training initiative for individuals with mental illness who are homeless; Project SAFE initiative; administrative fees for SSI/RSDI repo payees should be treated as dependent care expense;Food Stamp Quality Corner: income matches, incomplete verifications.

Revised SORB request form; Food Stamp application processing guidelines; TAFDC work participation review phase 3 (batch sanctions).

TAFDC- ESP Voactional Rehabilitation REferral; Resource Team Program new initiative; TAFDC Sanction User's Guide update.

TAFDC-- Employment Services Program (ESP) descriptions; TAFDC-- Other Parent Indicator; Overpayments-- Change in recovery threshold; Lowell contingency plan; Emergency services available to flood victims; TAFDC-- Work Program Participation Review Phase 2: age 9 and older; TAFDC-- Authorizing batch sanctions and removing interrupted sanctions;  TAFDC-- car owndership program for certain working recipients; DOH-- change in mailing address; Food Stamps-- Noncitizen eligibility based on 40 quarters.

TAFDC, EA and Food Stamp changed due to increase in federal povery guideline; TAFDC-- increasing work program participation for "age 2 through school" and "exempt to nonexempt" households; FS-- Processing denied or closed Food Stamp AU's; Random Moment Sampling; TAFDC-- Learning Disability Screening and Assessment.

TAFDC-- Removing interrupted sanctions, Learning Disability Screening and Assessment Clarifications and Revised Form, elimination of obsolete compliance and good cause reasons for 4 year college compoonent; Medex premium rate changes; Funeral and burial.

Meeting the work requirement through education and training; referrals to Domestic Violence Specialists; Food Stamp Quality Corner: self-employment income and semi-annual reporting.

Amounts and lengths of time for transportation payments.

Pay stubs with flexible credits; DTA Employment Programs Desk Guide; Learning Disabilities Project; Expansion of ESP Activities; FOR Families and EA; RAFT; Quality Control: household composition, unemployment benefits, monthly rent; HAP services.

Presumptive eligibility in Beacon; 2006 SS/SSI COLA for TAFDC, EAEDC and FS; FS Quality Control questions on rent and child care deduction calculations.

DTA obligations under the ADA; FS COLA; EA-- school attendance for children while in EA shelters; FS-- processing unverified deductible expenses; Beacon Help and procedures update; Eliminating Special Family Project; Proper use of "alternative" SSN identifiers; Warrant Match Unit returned mail procedure change; Cash and FS benefits for Hurricane Katrina evacuees; RAFT program; EAEDC/SSI timely case closing; EA 6 month extension; Correct P.O. Box for child support checks; Food Stamp Quality Corner: Semi-annual reporting should not be used where income is expected to change soon-- can result in underissuance.

TAFDC Vocational Rehabilitation Services, FS Employment and Training for homeless individuals, 2005 Clothing Allowance; Expiring IPV disqualifications; Beacon semi-annual FS reporting forms; Fuel Assitance.

TAFDC Education/Training counter: vocational proficiency indicator; TAFDC, EAEDC, FS changes to the non-fraudulent overpayment recalculation process;  EBT vendor conversion; P.O. Box for child support checks; Bay State Cap-- additional questions and answers; Intepreter Services; FYI--Alternate verifications; EA-- Becoming Homeless for the Purpose of Receiving EA; summer food service mailings; Media compaign for FS outreach; automatic enrollment in school meals programs.

TAFDC: 12 month limit on Education or Training meeting work requirement; EA: Housing Assistance Program referrals and Toolbox funds; EA: Local Housing Authority Transitional Housing Program II; TAFDC: Structured Job Search meeting work requirement; Bay State Cap Outreach plan;  TAFDC: Distance Learning Sites; EA: MBHP assessments of EA shelter families; Food Stamps Quality Corner: Household composition issues.

Three policy updates ("FYIs") to the field including 1) that workers must inform clients of
alternative verifications and tell them that workers can help them, and must not deny benefits if verifications for shelter costs or other deductions are not received2) that original signatures and original
documents are not required - faxed copies are fine, and 3) medical expenses (for eligible households) should be calculated used the higher federal mileage rate of 40.5 cents per mile!! Also Food Stamp Quality Control re: how to verify temporary leave of absence from work.

TAFDC work program clarification; benefits changes due to poverty guideline increase; child care referral notice; work program sanctions and good cause clarifications; Bay State Cap questions and answers; TAFDC and FS: changes to ESP referral and response form; resumption of automated EAEDC/SSI referral/closing process; TAFDC: 12 month limit on education and training counting toward work requirement.

Transportation changes; processing DMH/DTA Food Stamp applications; TAFDC reapplication having used 60 day job search period; Medex premium rate changes; revised Food Stamp application form; DTA/JVS  outreach initiative; TAFDC regulations used in determining EA eligibility; Income eligibility exclusions; FS: Additional Combat Pay excluded; Food Stamp Aulaity Corner: coding immigration status on Beacon. 

Transfers to Centralized DTA office; Work Program sanciton and good cause notices; recovery of legal fees; RAFT; SS/SSI COLA; Work Program Requirement Expansion Phase III; Acting on changes reported by TBA FS household; EA transportation guidelines; EA Housing Assistance Program benefits.

Quality corner: Food Stamp recipients with cooling costs get heating SUA;

H&R Block FS Outreach Program; TAFDC: Stopping the Beacon Participation Sanction Batch Job; Changes to YPP enrollment; SSI/SS COLA; EA: accessing escrowed funds; TAFDC and Food Stamps: foster grandparent income excluded; Medicare Prescription Drug Program clarification.

FS Quality Corner: worker has responsibility to ask about LIHEA payments.

Direct Deposit Project; FS Work RFequirement and Refugee Training Programs; Globe Santa; resources for program information concerning noncitizens; Processing FS applications living in group homes for the blind/disabled; shelter continues for 6 months after family becomes over-income; SSN match verification for noncitizens; MBHP assessments and EA shelter families.

TAFDC applications incorrectly denied before 30th day for failure to keep appointments; citizenship outreach for noncitizen EAEDC applicants; FS COLA; Medicare Prescription Drug program; Nguyen v. McIntire lawsuit settlement and treatment of assets/income of legal immigrants disqualified from FS program in determining FS benefis for rest of household; TAFDC and FS application processing guidelines for noncitizen applications; work program requirement and good cause changes; Food Stamp Quality Corner: Incorrect denials and incorrect closings for PA households.

Baynes v. Wagner lawsuit: TAFDC caretakers of disabled children must verify inability to work full-time rather than need to be in the home full-time; Virtual Gateway Food Stamps application; TAFDC clothing allowance.

Food Stamp shelter/SUA deductions; TAFDC monthly reporting; statewide match for automatic enrollment in school meals programs; Bay State Access Card (new non-photo ID card); identifying families for Local Housing Authority Placement Program (EA); new Structured Job Search initiative.

FS income issues: Child support income, misread pay stubs, averaging income monthly; EAEDC citizenship outreach project; EAEDC and TAFDC disability window issues; TAFDC work program sanction change.

FS attributed amount, anticipated wages, and semiannual reporting; Offset of lost benefits notice; summer food program; TAFDC: ESP and child care for nonrecipient parent under 18; FS: work requirement medical report; EA: Homeless child care services for EA recipients; Work program requirement changes; Card issuance system.

FS: wrong SSI benefit amount, wrong week's wages; Funeral benefits; Child care services clarification; Food Stamp DTA/DMR outreach initiative; Paternity affidavit; Shelter to Housing Placement Program; Systematic Alient Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program; TAFDC: 60 day job search period and work requirement procedures; Verification guidelinies for noncitizens.

Warrant match for EA assistance units; Minimum wage for the Full Employment Program; change to voter registration form; increase in federal poverty guideline;  EAEDC disability standards changes and EAEDC category of participation in Mass Rehab programs; FS application processing guidelines; Medex premium rate changes; EA: public housing evictions for overcrowding; Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program; TAFDC: establishing paternity; Food Stamp Farm Bill of 2002 income and asset exclusions; Food Stamps Quality Corner: cooling allowance.

Disability changes, ESP changes to Young Parents Program Enrollment (TAFDC), Direct Deposit pilot, Custodial parent notice from DOR, ESP transportation services (TAFDC), Mandatory change reporting for required households, treatment of Nutritional Assistance Program benefits, TAFDC ineligible noncitizens work program required status reasons, EAEDC disability standards changes and MRC category.

TAFDC transportation and Food Stamp benefit amount; miscellaneous FS program changes; 2004 SSI/SS COLA update.

TAFDC Structured Job Search; TAFDC transportation; TAFDC transfers to centralized TAFDC TAO; EBT cards; using appropriate TAFDC exempt work requirement reasons; Earned income credit and child care mailing; Eligibility for noncitizens-- noncitizens being discouraged from applying; Mass Health program changes.

ESP transportation services (TAFDC); Fees for replacement of ID cards; TAFDC nonpresumptive disability exemptions; TAFDC exmemption and noncountable income clarification, Food Stamp Quality Corner:  household composition re: retroactice payments and reopening cases.

Patterson V. Wagner lawsuit re: DTA charging EA appellants for shelter aid pending; FS COLA; TAFDC ESP changes; establishing paternity; FS universal semiannual reporting: changes to exceptions; FS Farm Bill 2002 restoration to noncitizen children under 18; ADA update for EA and SSI; Baynes v. Wagner TAFDC caretaker disability exemption lawsuit; TAFDC work program requirement expansion and revised extension requirements; EA eligibility for pregnant women.

TAFDC clothing allowance; removal of EAEDC student category; new EBT procedures; EA recoupment and pet restriction in hotels; mailing for school meals program; DAT obligations under the ADA; eligibility of strikers for cash or food stamp benefits; EAEDC living arrangement H; Food stamp disaster program; EAEDC and the SSI application process; Food Stamps Quality Corner: Supplemental payments when increase in assistance unit, reading pay stubs, denials for failure to submit verifications.

EAEDC eliminating rent allowance and student eligibility; FS increased availability of job search and training activities; FS EBT farmer's market pilot; TAFDC teen parents, dependent children, and the MCAS; EA selfsufficiency plan changes.

EAEDC living arrangement; impact of computer matches on Food Stamp change reporting.

Quality Corner: Food Stamp Universal Semi-reporting; TAFDC 60 day period to find job.

FS: USDA clarification on use of fans for cooling expenses; resolving EA information on Beacon; Beacon guide corrections; Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN); Third party recoveries; random moment sampling.

Increase in Federal Poverty Guideline; EA shelter information added to Beacon; Elimination of funding for TAFDC ESP program; Reinstatement of YPP program; Change to Basic MassHealth; FS: changs to Universal Semiannual Reporting Process; FYI: EA in-kind deduction not counted when redetermining EA eligibility; MEDEX premium rate changes; FS: Eligible noncitizen statuses and deeming of income and assets for a sponsored noncitizen; Food Stamp Farm Bill of 2002 Options; SSN verification changes; FS changes.

Issuing EBT card or PIN by mail; Elmination of Funding for TAFDC ESP program; Clarification of TAFDC work program full family sanction; Farm Bill 2002 Noncitizen Restoration; EA procedural changes.

TAFDC AP'sreceiving SSI; Simplified FS application; FS Transitional Benefits Alternative (TBA); Food Stamp work requirements and the 36 month clock; FS Farm Bill semi-annual reporting.

Child Support; Direct Deposit; Disability; Department obligations under the ADA; Child Care Authorizations; Elimination of the STAFDC program and ongoing noncitizens; noncitizen changes in the TAFDC program; Food Stamp Quality Corner: recertification.

Elimination of STAFDC program; mandatory direct deposit; FS asset limit change for disabled individuals; change in beenfit availability for daily issuances; FS employment training and referrals; EA shelter placement and eligibility standard; right to an interpreter; Composition of the assistance unit where child is ineligible; noncitizen changes; Food Stamp Quality Control: if FS household pays half the utilities, entitled to half the SUA.

FS benefits for disabled recipients; computer matches; elimination of STAFDC program; clothing allowance; restoration of SSFSP benefits for August 2002; EA eligibility standard, rental arrearages, and disaster benefits.

Child support; 60 month time clock; changes to FS calculation for combined FS/SSFS households; FS changes from PRWORA and misc. changes; transportation for EA families in hotels; TAFDC, EAEDC, and FS noncitizen changes; restoration of SSFS benefits;  waiving face-to-face interviews for NAP FS AU's; CLosing an AU member; Changing the address for Domoestic Violence AU's.

EA: court order-- 90 days to appeal;fair hearing rules corrections; FS expanded categorical eligibility; TAFDC child care; Food Stamp Quality Corner: Qualifying work quarters for LPR households.

Federal veterans match; Change in the number of free ATM cash withdrawals with EBT cards; Suspension of SSFSP program; suspension of EAEDC benefits; TAFDC and EAEDC: Good Cause criteria and the Good Cause Medical Statement; Department obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

FS excess medical deduction; calculation of FS/SSFS combination cases; FS expanded categorical eligibility;  fair hearing rules; FPL increase; suspension of SSFS benefits; insufficient fundsin the EA rental arrearage account; reductiojn of EAEDC benefits; treatment of Refugee Reception and Placement cash grant; Fs change reporting and new benefits.

Quality corner: For Food Stamps, direct child support is considered children's income but DEFRA payment is considered mother's (relevant where some household members are ineligible noncitizens); Vendor payments; teens in shelter.

Domestic Violence Teen Living Program; NPA FS Universal Quarterly Reporting; Hotel invoices; SSI interim reimbursement; Food Stamp Quality Corner: worker duty to inquire about landlord verifications, and to make changes to benefit amounts based on changed housing situations reported in monthly reports.

Family Cap Exception/ Waiver Request Form; New TAFDC 60 month period; Division of Hearings address change; EIC; Hotel/Motel revisions; EA shelter terminations; Food Stamps: Quality Corner: Income, immigration.

FS attributed amount, benefit issuance mechanism, and interview wrap-up; change to TAFDC/EAEDC financial eligibility-- noncountable income clarification;  FS and TAFDC eligibility for Drug Felons; Food Stamp Quality Corner: reading a gas bill, obligation to put newborn child on for next month and issue supplemental payment if delayed.

EA hotel/motel placements; FS verifying household expenses; changes and clarifications to TAFDC and EAEDC regulations;  TAFDC new 60 month clock.

CORI checks; FS elimination of vehicles as countable assets; Family Resources brochure; Forms which continue to be used with Beacon; Household expenses and vendor payments; Expanded FS categorical eligibility; federal veterans' match report; TAFDC new 60 month clock;  TAFDC case history for Domestic Violence Waiver Request form; Food Stamps Quality Corner: child care deduction, child support income.

Authorization for reimbursemtn of EAEDC from retro SSI payment; FS COLA; PNA checks and detoxification services; child support; interview wrap-up.

Beacon post-conversion; completing EA invoices for hotels and motels; Changes to EA verification timeframes, undocumented noncitizens, assignment rights form, learnfare and prospective income; teen parents; FS categoriecal eligibility and expledited FS issuance; clothing allowance; third party liability reference guide.

Request for Assistance (RFA-1) and Applicatioln for TAFDC forms; TAFDC potential to graduate report and EAEDC 18-20 years report; income from Youthbuild and Americorps; EA requests; SSI Special Benefits.

Federal income tax rebates; Beacon issues; EA Self-Sufficiency Plan Phase II.

ESP expansion of Basic and Structured Job Search; Cooperation with child support enforcement requirements; Gambino v. McIntire lawsuit; EA self-sufficiency plan; Beacon 2.0 release and tests; Food Stamp elderly/disabled indicator.

Changes to TAFDC extension process; FS implementation of the Homeless Shelter/Utility Deduction; Mislabeled DEFRA reports; Beacon issues; Food Stamp Quality Corner: Categrical eligibility, child support income and DEFRA payments.

TAFDC and EAEDC default warrant ineligibility; customer service center; Temporary MassHealth cards for TAFDCand EAEDC applicants and recipients; Eligibility for EA related to 236 or 221D3 housing subsidy;  FS increase in max excess shelter deduction; Inaccessible assets and domestic violence; Beacon issues; Food Stamp Quality Control: noncitizen eligibility.

Emergency Assistance and TAFDC work program; EA hotel/motel placement; change in EA shelter billing process; Earned Income Credit; Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) working with TAFDC recipients; Young Parent Program; change reporting notice.

Section 8 Joblink voucher program; SSI recipients residingin rest homes of community support facilities; CORI checks; TAFDC and EA vehicles as countable assets; TAFDC extensions; sanctioned recipients child support report; increased FS heaing standard utility allowance (SUA); timely FS case processing for homeless AU's; Food Stamp Quality Corner: verifications, terminated income.

Reminder-- helping applicants and recipients verify eligibility; Smith v. McIntire lawsuit-- TAFDC time limit; SSi income match.

FSP Policy Clarification-- SEP accounts;  TAFDC extensions; Thibault lawsuit-- TAFDC disability exemptions; EA HAP program; when a referral to DES is not required; FS notice to income-eligible child care recipients; Food Stamp Quality Control: checking for separate household status eligibility, changed shelter costs.

Elimination of fees for TAFDC child care; Quality Control: Food Stamp errors regarding income reporting.

Emergency hotel placement and single EA eligibility standard; Smith v.McIntire lawsuit re: extensions; TAFDC clothing allowance; Food Stamp Quality Control: child support income, monthly reporting issues.

Noncitizen proration calculation workbook (for combined FS/SSFS cases); EA shelter transfer notices; form for authorization of SSI reimbursement for EAEDC; Domestic violence specialist personal ID numbers; TAFDC COLA; Educational assistance income for cash and FS benefits; Food Stamps Quality Corner: collateral contacts, anticipated income.

Curing sanctions and child care; Food Stamp household composition desk guide; EBT purged records;Food Stamps Quality Corner: counting child support of children on SSI, only use actual utility expenses if exceed the SUA, noncitizens approved for EAEDC or for TAFDC disability exemption are eligible for federal Food Stamps.

FS Household Composition Desk Guide; Domestic Violence victims and legal change of names and SSN's; post-secondary education and 4-year colleges; DOR new hire recipient match change; FS household expenses;  voluntary repayment deduction for overpayment; how to count AmeriCorps benefits.

TAFDC exemptions and reduced need and payment standards; MA FS access program review; confirmation notice of direct deposit; expansion of categorical eligibility for FS; FS supplemental payments; treatment of census income; mandated participation and TAFDC Domestic Violence Waivers; DPH FOR Families referral form change; TAFDC and EA changes due to increase in federal poverty level; EA shelter placement change; Joblink section 8 housing voucher program; Example of TAFDC case affected by the elimination of TAFDC Work History requirement; Fleeing felon match; EAEDC lump sum income.

Access to Jobs Demand Response services and TAFDC Procedural Guide; Learnfare reminder.

Smith v. McIntire lasuit re: TAFDC extensions; CORI checks and child care payments; TAFDC 22 month active nonexempt cases report; expanded ESP participation; EAEDC caretaker family. 

NPA FS worker responsibility for extension-related closed TAFDC cases; COLAS; Income/Expenses report; FS estimated community service hour requirement; 18 year-old high school students are exempt from FS work program requirements; revised forms for landlord verificaiton and shared housing verification for TAFDC, EAEDC, and FS; TAFDC Thibault disability exemption lawsuit update; TAFDC relocation benefits.

EA eligibility standards effective 7/1/99; noncitizen desk guide online; Acosta payment; Y2K plans;FS-- condiminium fees now full allowable as shelter cost; Structured Job Search Program (TAFDC);  Smith v. McIntire TAFC extension lawsuit; FS work program; FS 36-month clock;  Request for a Waiver Contination of TAFDC Program Requirements Due to Domestic Violence.