Govt. Agency /Court Links& Materials

Enter the word(s) you are searching for; use quotes for exact phrase

Links to court or government agency websites. Also, materials issued by the agency or court itself (except for regulations and decisions) as well as rules and procedures governing the court or agency and its operations.

Displaying 401 - 450 of 680
View by Library Type
Sort by

DOJ Letter to State Courts regarding Language Access

Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez
The Assistant Attorney General from the Civil Rights Division of DOJ wrote a letter to all the Chief Justice/State Court Administrators in the nation on August 16, 2010. The letter addresses some major concerns regarding language access in efforts of bringing courts into compliance with Title VI.1.…

Memorandum from CALJ: Receipt of Unemployment Insurance Benefits by Calimant Applying for Disability Benefits REMINDER

Frank A. Cristaudo, CALJ
National Chief ALJ Frank Cristaudo has issued a memo reminding ALJs that receipt of UI benefits is one of many factors that must be considered in determining whether a claimant meets the disability standard, citing SSR 00-1c as supplying analogous reasoning.  The memo emphasizes that it is not…

The State of Massachusetts Website About Impact of National Health Reform on Massachusetts

EOHHS
The Executive Office of Health and Human Services has created a web page to keep stakeholders informed about what PPACA (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010) will mean for residents of the Commonwealth, whether you are a provider, small or large employer, health care advocate, or…

Access to Health Care for Individuals With Mobility Disabilities

DOJ and HHS
This technical assistance publication provides guidance for medical care providers on the requirements of the ADA in medical settings with respect to people with mobility disabilities, which include, for example, those who use wheelchairs, scooters, walkers, crutches, or no mobility devices at all.

CMS letter on "legally residing" pregnant women & children

Cindy Mann, CMS
Letter from CMS to the states describing new category of "legally residing" immigrant pregnant women & children who can be treated as fully eligible for Medicaid 

Serving the Self-Represented Litigant: A Guide For Massachusetts Court Staff

Massachusetts Trial Court
Prepared by the Court Personnel Working Group of the Supreme Judicial Court Steering Committee on Self-Represented Litigant This Guide provides court personnel with practical guidelines to help them provide effective assistance and useful information to court users. It sets forth guidelines…

Department of Youth Services Case Management Practice and Procedure Manual

Department of Youth Services
This manual describes the roles and responsibilities of DYS and DYS-contracted staff in meeting the needs of DYS-involved youth. In doing so, it also describes the course of treatment and services a DYS-involved youth will receive during commitment to DYS, both while confined and upon return to the…

Memorandum -- M. G. L. CHAPTER 151A, §74

Paul Connolly, UI Policy & Determinations
Massachusetts General Law chapter 151A, §74 provides: "This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Law, and shall be construed liberally in aid of its purpose, which purpose is to lighten the burden which now falls on the unemployed worker and…

HOW TO READ A CORI

Executive Office of Public Safety (Massachusetts)
This link to the Executive Office of Public Safety contains material such as: 1) a sample CORI and information on how to figure out what the abbreviations, status codes, and disposition codes on a CORI mean;  2) links to the searchable master crime index…

White House Fact Sheets on Impact of Health Reform For Various Population Groups

White House

Online Claims & Services

SSA

Immediate Impacts of National Health Reform

Prepared by the Office of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, 3/23/10

Notice Announcing Addresses for Service of Process, 75 FR 11610

SSA
The Office of the General Counsel (OGC) is responsible for processing and handling summonses and complaints in lawsuits involving judicial review of SSA final decisions on individual claims for benefits under titles II, VIII, and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act).Summonses and complaints in these…

Dept. of Labor Fact Sheet: FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT

DOL
Information from the Department of Labor on the basic provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The law contains provisions on employer coverage; employee eligibility for the law's benefits; entitlement to leave, maintenance of health benefits during leave, and job restoration after…

DUA Memo on SSI/SSDI and UI Eligibility

Paul Connolly, DUA
We had noticed that SSI/ SSDI applicants/recipients were being terminated from Unemployment Insurance on the (legally erroneous) presumption that the individual was incapable of working without any inquiry about whether the individual could work part time or could work either full time or part time…

DUA Redeterminations Procedures Memo

Paul Connolly
DUA Memorandum from March, 2010, providing a procedure to ensure that benefit payments are not interrupted pending a redetermination of eligibility in cases where new issues are created based on the receipt of a late protest from an interested party employer.  Cited in 2010-2011 UI Advocacy…

Parents Notice of Procedural Safeguards prepared by MA DESE - 2010

MA DESE
Links to Parent Handbook of Parent Rights in several languages and memo from the state Special Education Director to all special education administrators about the updated Parent Notice of Procedural Safeguards (PNPS) which replaces the previous PNPS from 2008.  The memo advises the…

Martinez Settlement

SSA
Official SSA Martinez page with links to court documents and a summary of the key points of the settlement. On September 24, 2009, the United States District Court in the Northern District of California approved a nationwide class action settlement agreement in the case of Martinez v. Astrue. The…

Request for Comments (DAA)

SSA
SSA comments request on its operating procedures for determining disability for persons whose drug addiction oralcoholism (DAA) may be a contributing factor material to our determination of disability.

SSA Provides Free Interpreters

SSA
SSA must provide free interpreters on request.

Glossary of SSI/SSDI Work Incentive Terms

SSA

Contact Information for SSA Offices in Massachusetts

SSA

English-Spanish Glossary of Social Security Administration Terminology

SSA

Contact Information for all Hearing Offices in Region I (New England)

SSA
Hearing Office Locator -- Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. The Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) Boston Region I provides services to residents in the six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and…

Social Security Office Locator

SSA
Page on SSA website to locate Social Security offices.

Glossary of Social Security Terms

SSA

AHVP Memo January 22, 2010

DHCD

HUD Renter's Kit

HUD
HUD website with information for renters, including fair housing rents, tips tenants should know, budgeting, and housing counseling. See also HUD's Common Questions about Renting page.

Interim Report on Access to Justice Initiatives in the Trial Court

Honorable Dina E. Fein and Sandra E. Lundy, Esq.
Overview The Access to Justice survey was conducted using print and electronic methods. The response rate was 29 percent and 34 percent for trial court employees and courthouse employees, respectively. 7 fundamental components for providing meaningful access to justice were surveyed: services for…

Childrens Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI)

MA EOHHS
Webpage on the mass.gov website with links to information on CBHI, including eligibility criteria, services available and listings of Community Service Agencies (CSA). 

Understanding Supplemental Security Income Expedited Payments

SSA
SSA can start payments more quickly than usual in four different types of situations: presumptive disability (PD) or presumptive blindness (PB) payment; emergency advance payment; immediate payment; and expedited reinstatement cases. Follow the link to the ssa guide on expedited payments.

Part D Update: LI NET

Massachusetts Office of Medicaid
Effective January 1, 2010 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will replace the Wellpoint Point-of-Sale Facilitated Enrollment process (Wellpoint) with a new Medicare Limited Income Newly Eligible Transition (LI NET) program. This update explains how LI NET is intended to work.

Authorization to Review a Record of Proceeding

USDOJ: Immigration Court - Boston

HUD's Elderly/Disabled Housing Inventory

HUD

ADA federal website

Department of Justice

2010 Social Security Changes -- no COLA this year

SSA
Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will not automatically increase in 2010 as there was no increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) from the third quarter of 2008 to the third quarter of 2009.

Standing Order 2009-1: BHA SP Cases will be heard on Wednesdays

Housing Court (Boston Division)
Standing Order 2009-1: Boston Division Re: Boston Housing Authority Summary Process Trial Day In accordance with Rule 2(c) of the Uniform Summary Process Rules, the First Justice of the Housing Court Department, Boston Division, designates that Wednesday shall be the day on which all summary…

DCF Child Welfare Act Report

Department of Children and Families
These reports are required by the Child Welfare Act of 2008 (See https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2008/Chapter176). The following information is required to be reported annually with the clerks of the senate and the house, the senate and house committees on ways and means, the…

SSA Publication No. 05-10040

SSA
Beginning January 1, 2010, changes in the law will make it easier for some people to qualify for Extra Help with their Medicare prescription drug plan costs. Under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act: • SSA will no longer count as a resource any life insurance policy; and •…

Department of Housing & Community Development - Section 8 and Housing Choice Voucher Program Language Access Plan

MA Department of Housing & Community Development (DHCD)
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…

Notice of Entry of Appearance as Attorney or Representative Before the Immigration Court

EOIR
A fillable form for an advocate filing a Notice of Entry of Appearance as Attorney or Representative Before the Immigration Court OMB#1125-0006)

DDS Transition Guide - The Road Forward

MA Dept of Developmental Services (DDS)
Booklet developed by DDS (previously DMR) on transition for students leaving high school. Information on chapter 688, DDS and many resources.

Best Practices for Claimants' Representatives

ODAR, SSA

POMS Section: DI 13010.001 Work Activity and Work Incentives

SSA
The definition of disability requires that an individual be medically disabled, and unable to perform substantial gainful activity (SGA). After we find that a beneficiary is disabled, we have an obligation to periodically evaluate the impairment(s) to determine whether the disability continues or…

DHCD Affirmative Fair Housing Policy

DHCD

COBRA Info on US.D.O.L. website

Dept. of Labor
The US Dept. of Labor website describes the rights of workers under COBRA to purchase continued health coverage under their employer-sponsored health plan after the workers' employment ends. 

Notice of Feb 2009 change in MassHealth/HSN Copays

MassHealth
Notice sent to MassHealth & Health Safety Net recipients that most copays for generic drugs increased from $1 to $2 on Feb 1, 2009; also contains reminder that pharmacy can't refuse to provide drugs to MassHealth member unable to afford copay.

Alien's Change of Address Form

EOIR
A fillable form for advocates wishing to file an Alien's Change of Address Form/ Immigration Court (OMB# 1125-0004)

Independent State Auditor's Report on DMH's Monitoring and Oversight of Client Funds

Auditor of the Commonwealth A. Joseph DeNucci
This is a report on oversight and monitoring controls over client funds at certain DMH programs and facilities.

DUA Attorney Fee Instructions

DUA
DUA Instructions for applying for Attorney Fees, referenced in Q. 66 of UI Advocacy Guide.