Massachusetts Statutes

Section 4. A person who is neither a citizen of the United States nor lawfully admitted for permanent residence or otherwise permanently residing in the United States under color of law shall be ineligible for assistance under the provisions of this chapter.

Section 5. No person dependent on public support shall be placed by the department or by any veteran's agent, board of health, or other public authority, in any hospital, nursing home, infirmary or institution not operated by the commonwealth which is not licensed as required by …

Section 6. A person shall be liable in contract to the commonwealth for expenses incurred by it under this chapter for his support to which he was not entitled, and action may be taken by the commonwealth to compel payment at any time within six years after the date when said per…

Section 7. The parents of such poor persons, if of sufficient ability, shall be bound to support such poor persons in proportion to their ability; provided, however, that said parents shall not be required to support or contribute to the support of any of their children eighteen …

Section 8. A treasurer of a savings bank, national bank, trust company, co-operative bank, state-chartered or federally-chartered credit union, benefit association, insurance company or safe deposit company authorized to do business in the commonwealth who, upon written request, …

Section 9. The department shall provide for the decent final disposition of all deceased persons who are at the time of death recipients of aid or assistance under this chapter, all deceased persons who, although without means of support at the time of death, did not apply for su…

Section 1. The following words and phrases as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:— ''Dependent child'', a needy child who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, continued absence from the h…

Section 10. Aid hereunder shall not be subject to trustee process and no assignment thereof shall be valid. No applicant for aid hereunder, who knowingly makes any false statement, or seeks to perpetrate any fraud or deception, in or relative to his application for such aid, shal…

Section 11. If a parent or dependent child requests care at an institution, as defined in section two of chapter one hundred and eighteen E, the institution furnishing such care may initiate an application on behalf of the parent or dependent child to the department and the depar…

Section 12. A temporary absence from the commonwealth which exceeds 30 calendar days or 90 days in aggregate over the course of a calendar year shall create a rebuttable presumption that Massachusetts residency has been abandoned by a recipient of cash assistance under transition…

Section 13. (a) During the initial qualification process for full cash assistance under transitional aid to families with dependent children, all adult applicants who are not exempt from the work requirement shall be required to conduct an initial job search unless the applicant …

Section 14. The department shall not calculate a separate 60 month benefit period for an individual who receives aid under transitional aid to families with dependent children if the individual is part of a 2 parent assistance unit. The department shall promulgate regulations in …

Section 15. The department shall develop economic independence goals for all recipients of cash assistance under transitional aid to families with dependent children to be completed during the recipient's first 24 month period of receiving benefits. The economic independence goal…

Section 16. (a) The department shall develop a savings program that allows recipients of cash assistance under transitional aid to families with dependent children to accumulate assets outside of the asset limit in savings accounts, called economic independence accounts. The econ…

Section 17. The department shall require unverified applicants for cash assistance for a dependent under transitional aid to families with dependent children to provide proof of income and assets. For the purposes of this section, an unverified applicant shall mean an applicant w…

Section 18. Notwithstanding 106 CMR 203.400(A)(2)(i) or any general or special law to the contrary, an education or training activity for the purpose of meeting the work requirement shall be defined as any 4–year degree granting higher education institution, community college or …

Section 19. A pregnant teen who meets all other eligibility requirements shall be eligible to live in a teen parent shelter or participate in a teen living program during such pregnant teen's entire pregnancy and shall be eligible to receive cash assistance under transitional aid…

Section 2. The department shall aid a parent in properly bringing up, in his or her own home, each dependent child, but no aid shall be granted, under this chapter, for, or on account of, any child unless the said child resides in the commonwealth. Further, the department shall r…

Section 2B. Every application for assistance made under this chapter shall be in writing on application forms prescribed by the commissioner and shall include but not be limited to the following; the name, age and residence of the applicant; the name, date and place of birth of e…

Section 3. Except as hereinafter provided, the department shall determine what aid is necessary to enable such parent to bring up such child or children. For this purpose, the department shall make an immediate and careful inquiry, including the resources of the family and abilit…

Section 3A. For the purpose of locating, establishing and enforcing the liability of any person who is legally obligated by court order or otherwise to support his spouse or children and who is obligated to pay such support either to the department pursuant to section twenty-one …

Section 3B. The department, in collaboration with the commonwealth corporation, shall establish an employment counseling and job training program to ensure appropriate training for recipients of cash assistance under transitional aid to families with dependent children. The depar…

Section 3C. (a) The department, in consultation with the commonwealth corporation, shall establish the pathways to self-sufficiency program to promote financial independence for recipients of transitional aid to families with dependent children, hereinafter referred to as TAFDC, …

Section 4A. Any parent receiving aid under this chapter, or any child for whose bringing up such aid is furnished, may be absent from the commonwealth on visit without having such aid suspended. Such parent, before his departure or the departure of the child from the commonwealth…

Section 4B. The department shall continue to provide assistance to families who are otherwise eligible for such assistance under the provisions of section two and who are temporarily making their residence at the New Chardon street shelter in the city of Boston administered by th…

Section 5. The department shall, in addition to its annual report, make such reports to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under the Federal Social Security Act, as amended, as may be necessary to secure to the commonwealth the benefits of said act.

Section 9. If an application for aid under this chapter is affected by the eligibility of the applicant to receive benefits under chapter one hundred and fifteen, the applicant shall be entitled to exercise such options and execute such waivers as may be necessary to receive the …

Section 1. The department of transitional assistance, in this chapter called the department, shall administer a program of financial assistance for aged and disabled persons who reside within the commonwealth. Such assistance, which shall be called state supplementary payments, s…

Section 2. Effective July first of every year, the level of any state supplementary payment authorized by section one plus the level of federal supplemental security income in effect at such time shall be increased, subject to appropriation, by a percentage amount equal to the pe…

Section 3. The commissioner of transitional assistance shall enter into an agreement with the Social Security Administration regarding the administration of the program of state supplementary payments authorized in section 1. This agreement shall contain all of the requirements f…

Section 4. An application to the Social Security Administration for supplemental security income benefits under Title XVI shall also be considered an application for state supplementary payment for the category of assistance for which the application is filed. Eligibility for any…

Section 5. If the commissioner of transitional assistance elects federal administration of state supplementary payments, there shall be advanced from the state treasury to the Social Security Administration each month an amount equal to the estimated payments authorized for that …

Section 6. No disclosure or use of information concerning applicants or recipients of assistance under this chapter shall be made by the department except for purposes directly connected to the administration of this chapter.

Section 7. The department shall provide to aged and disabled residents under this chapter a program of social services as set forth in section 2 of chapter 18. In addition to any other benefits authorized by this chapter, the department may provide to such residents grants of ass…

Section 7A. The department may provide to any recipient under this chapter who resides in a rest home which has a rate established pursuant to section thirty L of chapter seven a special grant whenever the aid provided under this chapter is insufficient to meet said rate establis…

Section 8. The department shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary or desirable for the administration of this chapter.

Section 1. In order to extend to employees of instrumentalities, and to the dependents and survivors of such employees, the basic protection accorded to others by the old age and survivors insurance system embodied in the Social Security Act, it is hereby declared to be the polic…

Section 10. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to affect adversely the rights of any person who is a member of any contributory retirement system established under the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, of chapter thirty-two or under correspo…

Section 2. For the purposes of this chapter— (a) The term ''wages'' means all remuneration for employment as defined herein, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, except that such term shall not include that part of such remuneration whi…

Section 3. (a) The state agency, with the approval of the governor, is hereby authorized to enter on behalf of the commonwealth into an agreement with the Federal Security Administrator, consistent with the terms and provisions of this chapter, for the purpose of extending the be…

Section 4. (a) Each instrumentality is hereby authorized to submit for approval by the state agency a plan for extending the benefits of Title II of the Social Security Act, in conformity with applicable provisions of such act, to employees of such instrumentality. Each such plan…

Section 5. (a) There is hereby established a special fund to be known as the contribution fund. Such fund shall consist of and there shall be deposited in such fund: (1) all contributions, interest and penalties collected under section four; (2) all moneys appropriated thereto un…

Section 6. For the purposes of establishing the administrative organization necessary for the proper administration of this chapter and for the services of clerical and other assistance and for travel incidental to and preparatory to an agreement between the state agency and the …

Section 7. The state agency shall make and publish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, as it finds necessary or appropriate to the efficient administration of the functions with which it is charged under this chapter.

Section 8. The state agency shall make studies concerning the problem of old age and survivors insurance protection for employees of the commonwealth and its instrumentalities, and concerning the operation of agreements made and plans approved under this chapter, and shall submit…

Section 9. If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.