Please remember that TAFDC or EAEDC families, as well as teen parents, may be eligible for up to $1,000 in Relocation Benefitsfor securing permanent housing if the family has been in temporary shelter for 60 days or more.  Examples of clients who meet the requirements specified in 106CMR 705.350 and who may be eligible for this benefit, include,but are not limited to, those moving out of: transitional shelter; teen structured living programs; domestic violence shelters; EA funded shelters; non-EA funded shelters; and domestic violence transitional living programs.

Relocation benefits: eligibility by type of shelter, eligibility by type of housing being moved into, and what the benefits can be used to pay for; TAFDC and Food Stamp eligibility when the adult is an eligible alien but the child is an ineligible alien.

Orientation incentive payments for parents not on TAFDC grant, including due to immigration status; every parent eligible for orientation incentive payment, including each parent in two parent family and teen parents who are dependents on their parents' grants;

Crib and layette payments; Food Stamp work requirement exemptions for 16 and 17 year-olds; Food Stamp shelter deduction for mortgage payments in home that is temporarily vacated.

TAFDC: grandmother does not need guardianship to establish relationship even if not on the grant; TAFDC and FS: severance pay is nonrecurring lump sum payment; TAFDC: recipients in domestic violence shelters are eligible for relocation benefits.

Reolocations benefits process and issues.