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OLGT 2016-53: TAFDC – Orientation Attendance

DTA
The purpose of the Online Guide Update is to advise DTA about attendance requirements for Orientations.

DTA Blurbs 32, 33, 34, 35 and 36: Pathways to Self-Sufficiency

DTA
Note:  these blurbs are not dated, but was current as of 9/8/16

DTA Blurbs 37, 38, 39 and 40: Pre-Benefit Job Search

DTA
Note:  these blurbs are not dated, but were current as of 9/8/16.

TAFDC Good Cause Medical Statement form TAFDC-GCMS

DTA
Medical statement to be submitted to support a claim of good cause not to participate in work/ community service/ job search. English TAFDC-GCMS Click the "Go to Website" link below for the forms included in DTA's Online Guide.

OLGT 2015-33: TAFDC – Automating Exemption/Nonexemption, Meets Compliance and Work Program Status

DTA
Overview In an effort to ensure that clients are receiving the correct level of benefits and are given every opportunity to meet their work program requirement in a timely fashion, the Department is automating changes to Exempt/Nonexempt status, Meets Compliance periods and Work Program requirement…

OLGT 2015-24: TAFDC – Employment Ready Activities and Job Quest

DTA
Overview Effective with this transmittal, clients who are participating in online job search for Employment Ready activities must register through JobQuest, a service offered through the One-Stop Career Centers. Purpose This Online Guide Transmittal informs DTA staff about: clients…

FYI March, April 2015: Over verification; Correct Work Requirements Reasons

DTA
FYIs Over verification Over verification occurs when clients are unnecessarily required to provide a permanent verification a second time, or when clients are asked to provide proof of one eligibility factor, when other verifications may have already proven the eligibility factor. Over…

Two-Parent Exempt/ Nonexempt Status Notice TAFDC-5

DTA
This notice tells you whether you are exempt from the reduced need and payment standards and the 24-month time limit on Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children (TAFDC).  English TAFDC-5 Spanish TAFDC-5 (S) Click the "Go to Website" link below for the forms…

Ops Memo 2014-55A: TAFDC – ESP/Work Program Requirement: BEACON Changes

DTA
Overview BEACON Build 46.4 scheduled for August 25, 2014, contained changes to Employment Service Program (ESP)/Work Program Requirement forms and processes. Purpose of Memo This Operations Memo advises staff about the BEACON changes. Specifically: the Participation and Attendance…

Ops Memo 2014-34: TAFDC Work Program Requirement Discrepancies Report

DTA
Overview A new Actuate report called the TAFDC Work Program Requirement Discrepancies Report has been developed to identify Work Program requirement inconsistencies for clients in an active TAFDC case. Purpose of Memo The purpose of this memo is to: advise staff of the TAFDC Work Program…

Hotline 12/13: Time Limit Extensions

DTA
From the Hotline Q. 1. A TAFDC client’s case was recently transferred into our TAO. This client is now in her 23rd month of time-limited benefits and is making an extension request. I see nothing on BEACON or in the case record indicating that she has made any attempts to cooperate with…

Ops Memo 2013-15: The Secure Jobs Connect Program

DTA
Overview DTA is partnering with the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) and the Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness (ICHH) in a program entitled, Secure Jobs Connect. The goal of the Secure Jobs Connect program is job…

Ops Memo 2013-10: TAFDC: DTA Client Survey

DTA
Overview In an effort to measure client satisfaction with DTA services, the Department periodically conducts surveys with randomly selected active clients. In the previous surveys, clients were asked to tell us where we were providing satisfactory services as well as what areas we could…

TAFDC Caretaker Exemption: Children's Issues Series

GBLS
What is the TAFDC Caretaker Exemption Rule? Under the TAFDC work requirement rule, families must do a work activity for 20-30 hours each week (hours are based on the age of their youngest child) as a condition of receiving TAFDC. The time limit rule says that families can also receive TAFDC for…

FYI: October 2011 - Activities Meeting the Work Program Requirement

DTA
Activities Meeting the Work Program Requirement Case managers are reminded that the following activities (either alone or in combination with other activities) can be used to meet the client’s TAFDC work program requirement: Working in a job for pay; Employment Ready (including…

Ops Memo 2011-42: TAFDC – FY ’12 Budget: Increased Work Participation Hours

DTA
The Fiscal Year ’12 state budget increases clients’ work program equirement from 24 hours per week to 30 hours per week if their youngest child is between mandatory full-time school age and eight years old.This memo informs case managers:about the Work Program requirement changes;how to…

Ops Memo 2011-34: TAFDC – ESP BEACON Changes

DTA
BEACON is being modified to reflect changes to ESP. This Operations Memo advises TAO staff about these changes.  

Field Ops Memo 2010-05: TAFDC – Work Program Requirement Change Cancellation

DTA
Overview Field Operations Memo 2009-65A advised TAO staff of an initial mailing to clients about a change to the number of hours per week that a client must work under the Work Program. This change has been canceled. For clients whose youngest child in the case is mandatory full-time school age…

What If I Can't Meet the TAFDC Work Requirement (Flier)

GBLS
Know your rights flier covering exemptions, domestic violence waivers and good cause for not complying with work and other requirements.

How Can I Meeet the TAFDC Work Requirement (flier)

GBLS
Flier for education and training providers explaining sanctions and how providers can help families avoid or undo them.

Field Ops Memo 2009-68: TAFDC – Community Service Site Clean-up Project

DTA
In September 2009, a report was generated from BEACON identifying all Community Service Sites that had been inactive for the previous 12 months. Local Office Quality Control (LOQC) reviewed the report and found that the majority of the sites listed had no contact information or outdated…

Questions and Answers About Welfare for Families With Substance Abuse Related Disabilities

MLRI
A series of questions and answers on benefits eligibility for persons with substance abuse histories including TAFDC and Food Stamps/ SNAP eligibility rules for persons with drug felony convictions, disability exemptions and good cause provisions. 1.  Is a parent with a substance abuse related…

Field Ops Memo 2009-52A: TAFDC - Employment Services Program (ESP) Activity Descriptions

DTA
The Department offers a variety of ESP activities to our applicants and clients (hereafter referred to as clients). To assist TAO staff match clients with activities, a description of current ESP activities as well as which clients are best served by the activity has been compiled for this Field…

Hotline Focus 09/09

DTA
Q. My TAFDC client is not work program required but she is taking a class at her local community college. Her only child is six months old. She has been attending this class for the past three months, but I noticed that BEACON is not accreting the activity on her 12-month education and training…

Field Ops Memo 2008-67: TAFDC

DTA
The Franklin Regional Transit Authority, effective December 31, 2008, will no longer be available to our clients for the remainder of FY ’09. Beginning January 1, 2009, clients participating in an ESP activity or working will be eligible for continued transportation payments authorized via…

Hotline Focus 11/08

DTA
SNAP: eligibility of children of naturalized citizen when children born outside U.S.; TAFDC: online training course for college credit and the work program requirement.

Field Ops Memo 2008-53A: TAFDC Work Program Requirement Changes

DTA
The Department changed how it counts clients’ work program participation in the following areas: homework/study time counts towards overall participation in certain education and training activities; post-secondary education beyond an Associate’s degree (including Bachelor’s and…

Field Ops Memo 2008-44: TAFDC Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Regional Non-Profit (RNP) Referrals List

DTA
Field Operations Memo 2008-37 provided revised procedures for referrals to the Regional Non-Profit (RNP) housing agencies.   This Field Operations Memo gives TAO staff a new list of TAFDC clients with Housing Choice (Section 8) vouchers who will receive Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) informational…

Field Ops Memo 2008-37: Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Regional Non-Profit (RNP) Referral Procedural Changes

DTA
This Field Operations Memo provides revised procedures for referrals to the Regional Non-Profit (RNP) housing agencies. These procedures mirror procedures for referrals to Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) detailed in Field Operations Memo 2008-30.

DTA Work Program Requirement Brochure (TAFDC)

DTA

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 2008-04: 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…

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
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/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 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…

August 2007 Transitions Letter from Commissioner re: Sanction Policy

The Commissioner's letter in the August 2007 Transitions Newsletter summarizes the steps that should be taken before a recipient is sanctioned for noncompliance with the work program. These include a full explanation of the the work program, asking clients about potential barriers, and referral to…

Field Ops Memo 2007-21: TAFDC - Community Service and the Automation of Fair Labor Standards Acts (FLSA) Calculation

DTA
This memo informs TAO Staf that; the FLSA calculations will be automated, effective with BEACON, scheduled for April 2, 2007; how the change will appear in BEACON; and the FLSA_CALC2 icon located on each desktop is no longer necessary.

Field Ops Memo 2007-12: TAFDC-ESP: Pre Worksite Training and Supported Work

DTA
This Field Operations Memo tells TAO Staff about: a change to this procedure which will streamline referrals to Supported Work; and a change in procedures when a recipient gets an unsubsidized job during the initial three weeks of the activity.

Field Ops Memo 2006-51: TAFDC -E\ ESP Component/Activity: Job Search/Job Readiness and A New BEACON Counter

DTA
This Field Operations Memo gives an overview of BEACON functionality changes and AU Manager responsibilities as it relates to the Job Search/Job Readiness counter.

Sanctions: GBLS flier on how to avoid and undo sanctions

Know your rights flier.

FYI: Work Program Sanction Desk Guide

DTA
There is a work program sanction desk guide with charts outlining what case workers need to do and a work flow chart regarding sanctions.

Field Ops Memo 2006-31A: TAFDC: Work Program Participation Review- Phase 3: Age School throught Eight, Authorizing Batch Sanctio

DTA
The Department is in the process of making changes to the TAFDC program to comply with federal reauthorization of the TANF block grant. One of the most significant areas to be addressed is participation in work-related activities. A recent review of TAFDC AUs has found recipients who are Work…

Field Ops Memo 2006-31: TAFDC: Work Program Participation Review - Phase 3; Age School through Eight, Authorizing Batch Sanction

DTA
The Department is in the process of making changes to the TAFDC program to comply with federal reauthorization of the TANF block grant. One of the most significant areas to be addressed is participation in work-related activities. A recent review of TAFDC AUs has found recipients who are Work…

Field Ops Memo 2006-27A: Work Program Participation Review - Phase 2: Age Nine and Older Clarification

DTA

Field Ops Memo 2006-27: Work Program Participation Review - Phase 2: Age Nine and Older, Authorizing Batch Sanctions, etc.

DTA
The Department is in the process of making changes to the TAFDC program to comply with federal reauthorization of the TANF block grant. One of the most significant areas to be addressed is participation in work-related activities. A recent review of TAFDC AUs has found recipients who are Work…

FYI: Meeting the Work Program Requirement through Education or Training Activities

DTA
Lists the education and training programs that count toward the work requirement for 12 months.

Field Ops Memo 2006-13: TAFDC - Removing Interrupted Sanctions

DTA
This memo gives TAO Staff procedures for removing interrupted sanctions when the Assessed Person (AP) is participating in another activity (including work), has a “Meets Compliance” reason or is in an extension and appears on the “Clients with Sanctions” view in an “Interrupt” status.

FYI: DTA Employment Programs Deskguide

DTA
Information about this guide, which details the components of TAFDC ESP and Food Stamp Employment and Training programs.

Good Cause-- GBLS sample verification letters

Sample letters from doctors and other providers verifying good cause reasons for missing work activities.