Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Department of Transitional Assistance
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Budgetary Direct Appropriations
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSITIONAL ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION
4400-1000 For the central administration of the department of 58,880,538 117,215,098
transitional assistance, including the development and
maintenance of automated data processing systems and
services in support of department operations, and for
the administration of department programs in local
assistance offices, including a program of health
services for certain recipients, and the expenses of
operating a food stamp program; provided, that all
costs associated with verifying disability for the
emergency aid to the elderly, disabled, and children
program shall be paid from this item; and provided
further, that the department may enter into an
interagency agreement for the purpose of transferring
funds to the Massachusetts office for refugees and
immigrants for administering the Massachusetts refugee
resettlement program
CASEWORKERS
4400-1100 57,032,538
MASSJOBS TRAINING AND EDUCATION
4401-1000 7,877,127
MASSJOBS TRAINING FOR IMMIGRANTS IN BOSTON
4401-1010 100,000
DIRECT AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN
4403-2000 423,333,333
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
4403-2100 For a program of emergency assistance and shelter for 55,069,827
needy families who are homeless or at risk of becoming
homeless; provided, that the income limit utilized in
determining eligibility for assistance shall be the
applicable payment standard under the program of aid to
families with dependent children in fiscal year
nineteen hundred and ninety-five; provided further,
that the department may allocate funds to other
agencies for the purposes of said program, including
the cost of administration; provided further, that the
department shall prepare and promulgate rules and
regulations to prevent abuse in the emergency
assistance program; provided further, that said rules
and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, a
year to year cross check of recipients to determine if
a person has received similar benefits in the previous
twenty-four months; provided further, that if a person
has utilized emergency assistance benefits more than
once within twenty-four months, the department is
hereby authorized and directed to place said person on .
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a protective payment schedule for the entire period
during which said person is receiving said benefits;
provided further, that no advance payments shall be
paid in fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-six;
provided further, that no funds may be expended for
advance rent, security deposit, moving, storage, heat,
utility, or mortgage arrearages, so-called; provided
further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any
general or special law to the contrary, no emergency
assistance funds shall be expended for costs not
directly attributable to rent liability and shelter,
except as provided herein; provided further, that the
monthly value of a rent arrearage payment shall not
exceed the applicable payment standard under the
program of aid to families with dependent children in
fiscal year nineteen hundred ninety-five for a family
of the same size; provided further, that families
living in public or subsidized housing shall not be
eligible to receive payments for rental liabilities;
provided further, that the department shall seek all
available federal reimbursement for emergency shelter
costs; provided further, that in promulgating,
amending, or rescinding its regulations with respect to
eligibility or benefits under this program, the
department shall take into account the amounts
available to it so as not to exceed the appropriation;
provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions
of any general or special law to the contrary, before
implementing any eligibility or benefit changes to the
program, the commissioner and the secretary of health
and human services shall file with the house and senate
committees on ways and means and with the clerks of the
house of representatives and the senate, a report
setting forth such proposed changes; provided further,
that no person be placed in any type of emergency
shelter unless said person is made homeless by natural
disaster, sheriff’s eviction, or domestic violence;
provided further, that recipients placed in
scattered-site emergency shelters, so-called, shall not
be considered tenants for purposes of the
commonwealth's landlord and tenant statutes; provided
further, that notwithstanding any general or special
law to the contrary, including the provisions of this
item, the department is authorized to enter a
performance-based agreement with public or private
entities, to provide emergency assistance services;
provided further, that said contract may provide that
payments be made on a per capita basis; and provided
further, that the department shall continue its
comprehensive monthly report, which tracks statewide
use of emergency assistance programs by category of
assistance, caseload, average length of use or stay,
and the amounts expended monthly by category of
assistance, to the secretary for administration and
finance and the house and senate committees on ways and
means
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EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE - ARREARAGES
4403-2110 15,808,973
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE - CONTRACTED FAMILY SERVICES
4403-2120 32,041,055
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE - HOTEL AND MOTEL
4403-2130 8,639,694
SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES
4403-2131 500,000
EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT PROGRAM
4403-2200 Notwithstanding any general or special law to the 703,251,471
contrary, the department of transitional assistance
shall develop and implement a program of employment
support to replace the aid to families with dependent
children program in accordance with sections twelve
through nineteen of chapter one hundred and eighteen of
the General Laws, as amended; provided, that for
families receiving a cash payment, the need standard
shall be equal to the standard in effect in fiscal year
nineteen hundred and eighty-nine in the program of aid
to families with dependent children; provided further,
that the payment standard shall be equal to the need
standard; provided further, that a forty dollar per
month rent allowance shall be paid to those households
receiving a monthly cash payment and incurring a rent
or mortgage expense and not residing in public housing
or subsidized housing subject to federal reimbursement;
provided further, that a non-recurring children's
clothing allowance in the amount of one hundred and
fifty dollars shall be provided to each child receiving
a monthly cash payment under this program in September,
nineteen hundred and ninety-five, subject to
reimbursement; provided further, that said children's
clothing allowance shall be included in the standard of
need for the month of September, nineteen hundred and
ninety-five; provided further, that the department
shall assure that eligibility is redetermined in the
month of October for any applicant made eligible for
assistance by virtue of said increase in the standard
of need; provided further, that notwithstanding the
provisions of any general or special law to the
contrary, the department may provide a relocation
allowance of four hundred and fifty dollars to families
who have been in temporary emergency shelter pursuant
to the emergency assistance program for thirty days or
more; provided further, that said relocation allowance
shall not be provided more than once in a twelve month
period; provided further, that notwithstanding the
provisions of any general or special law to the
contrary, the grants to families in temporary emergency
shelter shall be reduced by the portion of the cash
payment made under the employment support program, if .
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any, which is attributable to shelter, heat and
utilities; provided further, that the department may
provide assistance to certain applicants or recipients
of the employment support program for the purpose of
permanently relocating outside of Massachusetts,
pursuant to department regulations; provided further,
that in promulgating, amending, or rescinding
regulations to implement a program of day care services
under section fourteen of said chapter one hundred and
eighteen, the department shall consider the amounts
available under this appropriation so as not to exceed
the limits thereof; provided further, that payments for
day care services under said section fourteen shall be
authorized for families in which a parent, or parents,
are working and need day care services to continue
working, and would be eligible under the provisions of
section thirteen of said chapter one hundred and
eighteen, but who do not meet any of the categorical
requirements of clauses (a) through (f) of said section
thirteen; provided further, that in addition to such
families, the department, subject to appropriation, may
provide payment to other low-income families which meet
the eligibility requirements of the so-called "income
eligible" day care program provided by the department
of social services; provided further, that the
department shall give priority within the
income-eligible group to those families which had
received so-called "transitional day care" after losing
eligibility for public assistance, and which are no
longer eligible for transitional day care but need day
care in order to continue working; provided further,
that the department shall allocate rate increases for
family-based and center-based day care providers
according to a plan developed by the executive office
of health and human services; provided further, that
the department shall expend not less than one million
dollars for family planning services; provided further,
that the department is authorized to promulgate
emergency regulations under chapter thirty A, if
necessary, to avoid expending funds in excess of the
appropriation; provided further, that the department
may enter into an interagency agreement for the
purposes of allocating funds to the Massachusetts
refugee resettlement program for certain individuals
who otherwise would have been eligible to receive
benefits under the aid to families with dependent
children program or employment support program; and
provided further, that nothwithstanding the provisions
of any general or special law or regulation to the
contrary, those individuals eligible for benefits
through the Massachusetts refugee resettlement program
shall not be eligible for benefits under chapters one
hundred and seventeen A and one hundred and eighteen
for a twelve month period from the date of their entry
into the United States
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STATE SUPPLEMENT TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR AGED AND
DISABLED
4405-2000 For the state supplement to the supplemental security 187,754,000 182,696,583
income program for the aged and disabled; provided,
that the expenses of special grant recipients residing
in rest homes, as provided in section seven A of
chapter one hundred and eighteen A of the General Laws,
may be paid from this item; and provided further, that
the expenses of a program to assist recipients of
emergency aid to the elderly, disabled and children in
becoming eligible for said supplemental security income
program may be paid from this item
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE
4406-3000 For homelessness services to assist individuals who are 25,399,229 25,399,229
homeless or in danger of becoming homeless, including
assistance to organizations which provide food,
shelter, housing search, and limited related services
to the homeless and indigent; provided, that the
department may allocate funds to other agencies for the
purposes of this program; and provided further, that
all health care costs for the homeless program shall be
paid from this item
EMERGENCY AID TO THE ELDERLY, DISABLED AND CHILDREN
4408-1000 For a program of cash assistance to certain residents 124,344,054 95,335,360
of the commonwealth who are found by the department of
transitional assistance to be eligible for aid under
the emergency aid to the elderly, disabled, and
children program, pursuant to chapter one hundred and
seventeen A of the General Laws and regulations
promulgated by said department and subject to the
limitations of appropriation therefor; provided, that
the payment standard shall equal the payment standard
in effect under the emergency aid to the elderly,
disabled, and children program in fiscal year nineteen
hundred and ninety-five; provided further, that said
program may include a program of medical benefits;
provided further, that said program shall include
services provided in public detoxification and
outpatient substance abuse treatment centers; provided
further, that a thirty-five dollar rent allowance, to
the extent determined by the department to be possible
within the appropriation, shall be paid to all
households incurring a rent or mortgage expense and not
residing in public housing or subsidized housing;
provided further, that the department may provide
benefits to persons aged sixty-five or older who are
eligible for, and have applied for benefits under
chapter one hundred and eighteen A of the General Laws,
to persons who suffer from a medically determinable
impairment or combination of impairments which is
expected to last for a period as determined by
department regulations and which substantially reduces
or eliminates the individual's capacity to support
himself or herself, and which has been verified by a
competent authority, to certain persons caring for a .
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disabled person, to otherwise eligible participants in
the vocational rehabilitation program of the
Massachusetts rehabilitation commission, provided that
an individual who has been eligible under this
provision for twelve months must establish categorical
eligibility under another provision in order to
continue receiving benefits, and to certain dependent
children, parents, or other caretakers of dependent
children who are ineligible for benefits under chapter
one hundred and eighteen of the General Laws and as
defined by department regulations; provided further,
that no ex-offender, person over age forty-five without
a prior work history, student, or person in a
residential treatment facility shall be eligible for
benefits under this program unless said person
otherwise meets the eligibility criteria described
herein and defined by regulations of the department;
provided further, that any person incarcerated in a
correctional institution shall not be eligible for
benefits under this program; provided further, that
benefits under this program shall be provided only to
residents who are citizens of the United States or
aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence or
otherwise permanently residing in the United States
under color of law and shall not be provided to illegal
or undocumented aliens; provided further, that no funds
shall be expended from this item for the payment of
expenses associated with any medical review team, other
disability screening process, or costs associated with
verifying disability for this program; provided
further, that the department shall take into account
the amounts available to it for expenditure by this
item so as not to exceed the appropriation; provided
further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any
general or special law to the contrary, including this
item, before implementing any eligibility or benefit
changes, or both to the program, the commissioner and
the secretary of health and human services shall file
with the house and senate committees on ways and means
and with the clerks of the house of representatives and
the senate a determination that available
appropriations for said program will be insufficient to
meet projected expenses and a report setting forth such
proposed changes; and provided further, that the
department is authorized to promulgate emergency
regulations pursuant to chapter thirty A of the General
Laws to implement these eligibility or benefit changes
or both, including the payment standard, medical
benefits, and any other benefits under this program, so
as not to exceed the appropriation
Budgetary Retained Revenues
CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS
4403-2013 The department of transitional assistance may expend an 70,000,000 70,000,000
amount not to exceed seventy million dollars accrued
from the child support payments collected pursuant to
Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, for the purposes.
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of the employment support program
SSA REIMBURSEMENT FOR SSI STATE SUPPLEMENT PAYMENTS
4405-2001 For the state supplement to the supplemental security 9,500,000
income program for the aged and disabled; provided,
that the department of transitional assistance may
expend an amount not to exceed nine million five
hundred thousand dollars received from the Social
Security Administration during fiscal year nineteen
hundred and ninety-six through the interim assistance
agreement
SSA REIMBURSEMENT FOR EAEDC PAYMENTS TO RETROACTIVE SSI CLIENTS
4408-1001 For payments under the program of emergency aid to the 14,500,000
elderly, disabled, and children; provided, that the
department of transitional assistance may expend an
amount not to exceed fourteen million five hundred
thousand dollars received from the Social Security
Administration during fiscal year nineteen hundred and
ninety-six through the interim assistance agreement
Federal Grant Spending
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM
4407-9002 For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, 17,896,708 17,896,708
Employment and Training Program
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
4407-9057 644,750
AT-RISK DAY CARE
4407-9070 For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, 7,985,706 6,239,983
At-Risk Day Care
PARENT'S FAIR SHARE - TITLE IV-F
4407-9072 For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, 404,793 370,994
Parent's Fair Share - Title IV-F
PARENT'S FAIR SHARE - TITLE IV-D
4407-9073 For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, 96,740 91,557
Parent's Fair Share - Title IV-D
ENSURING SUCCESS FOR TEEN PARENTS
4407-9080 58,383
Trust & Other Spending
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4407-9074 90,000 90,000
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