About MLRI, Acknowledgements, and Copyright

About Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute is a statewide legal advocacy and support center. Our mission is to represent low-income people, elders, and persons with disabilities in their struggle for basic human needs, to defend against policies and actions that harm and marginalize people living in poverty, and to advocate for systemic reforms that achieve social and economic justice. Our activities include advice, litigation, policy analysis, research, technical assistance and public information.

Acknowledgments

MLRI dedicates this Guide to the low-income people for whom it was written. We thank the advocates for low-income people in Massachusetts who help low-income households obtain the nutrition benefits for which they are eligible and who work to preserve and protect basic benefits for people in poverty.

We also appreciate the support from Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. for MLRI's publications and from MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, the Nord Family Foundation, the Roberta Thall Charitable Trust and the State Street Foundation for MLRI's work on food stamps/SNAP.

Special thanks go to MLRI's AmeriCorps member, Zainab Manasawala, and MLRI support staff Gale Halpern and Millie Peters. Their careful analysis and suggestions this year and over the many years of this Guide have made it more accurate and more useful.

This edition of the Guide was written and edited by Patricia Baker, Laura Gallant, Deborah Harris and Rochelle Hahn.

Sixteenth Edition, January 2010

© 2010 by Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
and Massachusetts
Continuing Legal Education, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Permission to reprint must be obtained from both the
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and Massachusetts Continuing Legal
Education, Inc.

MCLE:       2100350B14

ISBN:        1-57589-566-8

ISSN:         1529-0344