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2014 COLA Fact Sheet (Social Security)

SSA
SSA fact sheet.

MRVP Notice 2013-02: MRVP Income Limits 2013-2014

Brendan Goodwin, Director, State Rental Assistance Programs
New MRVP Income Limits for Determination of Eligibility and Continued Occupancy- Change from 200% of Federal Poverty Level to 50% of HUD Area Median Income (AMI).  

The SSA's Policy on Symptom Validity Tests in Determining Disability Claims-Congressional Response Report, A-08-13-23094

SSA Office of Inspector General
In a January 30, 2013, letter to the Inspector General, Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, requested that the OIG review SSA’s policy that disallowed the purchase of SVTs for disability determinations.  SVTs are used to…

Prescription Advantage Application and Instructions

Prescription Advantage
Attached is the most recent version of the Prescription Advantage application, as well as the application's instructions.

Virtual Language Mapping Tool

U.S. Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau released a language mapping tool using American Community Survey data from 2007-2011 on language spoken and limited English proficency. The map gives a visual sense of where different linguistic populations are located across the country. Click the "Go to Website"…

UIPP 2013.06: Good Cause Policy for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Claimants

Ken Owens, UI Benefits Director
As part of the settlement in the Luciano language access litigation, DUA agreed to promulgate good cause sub-regulatory guidance.  The memo is intended to insure that LEP claimants have equal access to unemployment insurance benefits.   In addition to covering DUA’s obligations…

DUA Good Cause Policy for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Claimants

Ken Owens, DUA Ui Benefits Director
Guidance on DUA standard for providing equal access to LEP claimants and determining when good cause exists for an LEP claimant to have failed to meet a deadline or requirement. 

MyLegislature (Massachusetts)

General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Massachusetts legislature now has a tool called "MyLegislature." Once you register, you can follow Bills, Hearings, and Committees that are of interest to you, as well as the Senate and House Legislators for your district.  Click the "Go to Website" link below for more…

MassHealth: Roadmap to 2014, Affordable Care Act Transition Plan (Draft)

EOHHS
Under the MassHealth 1115 demonstration, the state is required to file & periodically update a plan for transitioning from current coverage to expanded Medicaid eligibility and new forms of subsidized coverage effective in Jan. 2014. EOHHS released its first Transition Plan in July 2012. In June…

CarePlus-Table Comparing Benefits to Standard

Office of Medicaid
This Table from the June 2013 Roadmap to Coverage compares the benefits covered in MassHealth CarePlus with those covered in MassHealth Standard. Adults enrolled in CarePlus who need one or more services only available in Standard may be able to change their coverage to Standard if they have special…

Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education Data

DESE
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) provides a wide range of data about Massachusetts schools, students and teachers.  Online reports about Massachusetts students can be found at http://www.doe.mass.edu/infoservices/reports/ and include data in…

Form I-912: Request for Fee Waiver

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Use this form to request a fee waiver (or submit a written request) for certain immigration forms and services based on a demonstrated inability to pay. 

DHCD Guidelines for Some 40B Housing

DHCD
Guidelines, G.L. C.40B Comprehensive Permit Projects Subsidized Housing Inventory

Lynn Housing Authority Section 8 Administrative Plan

Lynn Housing Authority
The Lynn Housing Authority's Section 8 Administrative Plan.

National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Overview In 2000, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (“CLAS”) Standards. These standards sought to provide guidance for the provision of high-quality health care services that meet the needs…

Lists of expiring use properties

Misc
The following documents are attached below: Mass list of 13A Developments (see what is expiring in your area) Maturing Mortgage list 2010 (see what is expiring in your area) CEDAC Expiring Use Inventory - Jun 2023 DHCD Moving to Work Preservation Initiative - power point

Trial Courts: Enhancing Language Access Services for Limited-English-Proficiency Court Users

California's Administrative Office of the Courts
Overview The Administrative Office of the Courts (“AOC”) produced the report to evaluate the various strategies adopted by courts to provide Limited English Proficiency (“LEP”) individuals equal access to the judicial system with the hope that successful strategies can be…

Office of Court Interpreter Services Court Liaison List

OCIS
The Office of Court Interpreter Services (OCIS) has a liaison assigned in each court across the Commonwealth to handle interpreter requests and any other general language access issues. Click the "Go to Website" link below to access the list, or Request an Interpreter  .

Limited English Proficient HMO Enrollees Remain Vulnerable to Communication Barriers Despite Language Assistance Regulations

Max W. Hadler, Xiao Chen, Erik Gonzalez and Dylan H. Roby
Overview A health policy brief in UCLA Center for Health Policy Research condenses the findings of a study aimed at surveying communication barriers experienced by Limited English Proficiency (“LEP”) patients enrolled in California’s Health Maintenance Organizations…

U.S. Dept. of Labor Information on Family and Medical Leave

Use this advisor service to learn more about the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) Language Access Plan

Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA)
The Administration & Finance Bulletin #16 issued in August 2010, requiring all state agencies in the Executive Branch to submit a plan that described how their agency provides equal access to limited English proficient (LEP) populations, and gave guidance about how to create a Language Access…

HHS LEP 2013 Guidance

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
The Limited English Proficiency section of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services website.  It includes links to HHS guidance issued in 2013 on the Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination as it Affects Persons with Limited English Proficiency, as well as other federal…

Massachusetts Office on Disability Language Access Plan

Massachusetts Office on Disability (MOD)
The Administration & Finance Bulletin #16 issued in August 2010, requiring all state agencies in the Executive Branch to submit a plan that described how their agency provides equal access to limited English proficient (LEP) populations, and gave guidance about how to create a Language Access…

Brookline Housing Authority Section 8 Administrative Plan

Brookline Housing Authority
Brookline Housing Authority's administrative plan.

HUD and Virginia Realty Conciliation Agreements

US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Overview In August 2011, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) filed a complaint against Virginia Realty Company of Tidewater (“VR”) et. al. averring violation of the Fair Housing Act. VR adopted an explicit policy requiring English proficiency as a…

Disability Evaluation Services (DDS) User Friendly Website

Disability Law Center
Disability Evaluation Services in MA updated and improved its website posting information for consumers about the DDS services and programs.  Director of DDS, Gus Adams, Ph.D. provides an on-line quick tutorial that describes the disability determination process required for the eligibility…

Department of Labor and Workforce Development Language Access Plan

Department of Labor and Workforce Development
The Administration & Finance Bulletin #16 issued in August 2010, requiring all state agencies in the Executive Branch to submit a plan that described how their agency provides equal access to limited English proficient (LEP) populations, and gave guidance about how to create a Language Access…

Improvements in Language Access in the Courts, 2009 to 2012

Laura K Abel and Matthew Longobardi
Overview Title VI of the Civil Rights Act mandates that institutions in receipt of federal funding must ensure equal access to their services irrespective of “race, color or national origin.” Prohibition of discrimination based on national origin has been interpreted to include…

Foreclosure Resources -- Maps, Data and Analysis

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Interactive maps, charts and data regarding mortgages and foreclosures in New England.

A&F Administrative Bulletin #16: Language Access Policy Implementation Guidelines

Massachusetts Office of Access and Opportunity
The original A&F Bulletin #16, in the form of a Language Access Policy and Implementation Guidance, was released on August 1, 2010 to all MA state agencies in the Executive Branch. The Bulletin gave guidance regarding language access issues and directed agencies to appoint a Language Access…

Social Security Disability Programs: Improving the Qaulity of Benefit Award Decisions

Minority Staff Report, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S. Senate

New England PIH Advisory Letter 2012-3: Employee Benefit Plan Credits as Income Exclusions

HUD
Affirming that if aprogram participant's medical participation credits (sometimes known as flex credits or flexible credits) can be used only to purchase or offset the cost of health care coverage and are not convertible to cash, they are excluded from income.

New England PIH Advisory Letter 12-2: PHA Dissemination of CORI to Owners in the Section 8 Program

HUD
Massachusetts PHA Dissemination of Criminal Offender Records Information to Owners in the Section 8 Voucher Program"This advisory letter is to remind public housing agencies (PHAs) in Massachusetts that HUD regulations prohibit PHAs from disclosing household criminal records information to…

The Mortgage Foreclosure Debt Relief Act and Debt Cancellation -- Tax Implications

IRS
"If you owe a debt to someone else and they cancel or forgive that debt, the canceled amount may be taxable. The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 generally allows taxpayers to exclude income from the discharge of debt on their principal residence. Debt reduced through mortgage restructuring, as…

Congressional Response Report, Current and Expanded Use of Video Hearings, A - 05 - 12 - 21287

Office of the Inspector General, SSA
On December 23, 2011, as part of the Managers Report accompanying the SSA Fiscal Year 2012 appropriations, OIG staff were asked to assess the legislative and administrative options, including potential challenges, for expanding access to video hearings at SSA.  The report is a…

IRS Language Glossaries

IRS
  The IRS has a number of language glossaries that may be useful. Product Number   Title   Revision Date   Posted Date   Publ 850 (EN/SP) English-Spanish Glossary of Words and…

School Employees, G.L. c. 151A, 28A

Tracey Ragland-Kelley, UI Policy & Performance Department
DUA memo explaining the term "reasonable assurance" of returning to work after summer vacation for employees of schools (in order to determine eligibility or ineligibility for UI during summer months).   

DHCD Tenant Selection Adjudicatory Hearing Decision Index, Volume 31

DHCD
Includes all decisions made between November 16, 2011 and May 24, 2012.

EEOC Guidance: Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions

EEOC
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement guidance on how employers may use arrest and conviction records in their employment decisions. The EEOC has also issued Questions and Answers about this enforecement guidance. For additional information about this…

MRVP Project Based Units at Massachusetts Housing Developments

Mass Housing
List of MRVP project-based units at Massachusetts Housing developments.

Best Practices for Effective Communication with Members and Applicants with Disabilities

Office of Medicaid
In this Eligibility Operations Memo, the Office of Medicaid describes a process for identifying individuals with disabilites and offering accommodation in communications. It also describes creation of a MassHealth Disability Acccommodation Ombudsman to address requests for accommodation.

Successor Settlement Agreement between DOJ & BPS

Department of Justice, Department of Education & Boston Public Schools
As DOJ describes in their April 23, 2012 press release, "The Department of Justice and the Department of Education reached agreement with the Boston Public Schools (the district) and its superintendent today to ensure that English Language Learner (ELL) students in Boston receive the services and…

HUD evaluation of BHA's 2012 Annual Public Housing Agency Plan

Boston Housing Authority (BHA) and Housing and Urban Department (HUD)
Overview The Boston Housing Authority (“BHA”) submitted their Annual Public Housing Agency (“PHA”) Plan for the Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2012 to the Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) Department for approval pursuant the Public Housing Reform Act…

Federal Agency Language Access Guidance

Executive Order 13166 required each federal agency that provides financial assistance to develop an LEP guidance for its recipients on the obligation to provide meaningful access to limited English proficient (LEP) individuals. EO 13166 also requires each federal agency to create a federally…

DOJ Letter of Finding against North Carolina Courts

Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Rights Division
The Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) in April of 2007 after receiving a complaint that the courts were not providing limited English proficient (LEP) individuals with meaningful access to the courts. In May 2011, a second…

SSA Q & A regarding State Administration of SSI Supplement

SSA

DOJ Language Access Plan

Department of Justice (DOJ)
The DOJ Language Access Plan complies with language access obligations under Executive Order 13166 and recommits the Department to a consistent approach while improving accessibility to Department programs and activities for limited English proficient (LEP) persons.  DOJ Plan adheres to the Attorney…

SSA Dear Colleague Letter Regarding State Administration of SSI Supplement

Roberto Medina

Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) Income and Resource Standards

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
This CMS memorandum explains the income and resource standards for individuals who apply for the low-income subsidy for Medicare Part D on or after January 1, 2012.The 2011 CMS memorandum is also linked below.

Children's Medical Security Plan

MassHealth
Click the "Go to Website" link below to access the CMSP website.  The Children's Medical Security Plan is a program funded by MassHealth and administered by UniCare.