General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 18 Department of Transitional Assistance

• Massachusetts General Laws - Department of transitional assistance - Chapter 18, Section 1
  There shall be a department of transitional assistance, in this chapter called the department.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Comprehensive financial assistance program; services - Chapter 18, Section 2
  (A) The department shall provide and administer throughout the commonwealth a comprehensive transitional assistance financial assistance program, including the following services: the provision of financial...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Food stamp employment and training plan; maximization of federal 50-50 match program - Chapter 18, Section 2A
  (a) The department of transitional assistance shall amend the food stamp employment and training plan to maximize the use of the 50-50 match provision, so-called,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; salary - Chapter 18, Section 3
  The department shall be under the direction, supervision and control of a commissioner of transitional assistance, in this chapter called the commissioner. The secretary of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy commissioner; assistant commissioners; qualifications; salaries; succession; bond - Chapter 18, Section 4
  The commissioner shall appoint a deputy commissioner and such assistant commissioners, not to exceed four in number, as the commissioner may determine to be necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Organization of department; regional offices; community service areas - Chapter 18, Section 5
  The commissioner shall establish such divisions, bureaus, sections or other offices within the department as he shall from time to time determine to be necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 943, Sec. 1 - Chapter 18, Section 5A
  Repealed, 1971, 943, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - False representations or failure to disclose facts; penalty - Chapter 18, Section 5B
  Any person or institution which knowingly makes a false representation or, contrary to a legal duty to do so, knowingly fails to disclose any material...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vendors’ bill for services; perjury - Chapter 18, Section 5C
  Any vendor under any assistance program administered by the department shall submit to the department, within six months of the last day of the month...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vendors; violations - Chapter 18, Section 5D
  Any vendor procuring a payment under any assistance program administered by the department who violates any of the provisions of section five B or of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Return of unlawful payments - Chapter 18, Section 5E
  Any recipient or vendor who receives payment under any assistance program administered by the department, to which he is not entitled, shall return such payment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Father’s leaving family to obtain assistance; penalty - Chapter 18, Section 5F
  A father who leaves his family for the purpose of qualifying them for assistance under any of the programs administered by the department shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Claimant; subrogation - Chapter 18, Section 5G
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Claimant”, a person who suffers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recipients of medical assistance under chapter 118E; subrogation; notice; policy provisions; payment by department; information concerning recipients - Chapter 18, Section 5H
  Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, rule or regulation, the department shall be subrogated to the right of any recipient of medical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certain purchases with direct cash assistance funds prohibited; definitions applicable to Secs. 5I and 5J; penalty; reporting of enforcement and violations - Chapter 18, Section 5I
  (a) As used in sections 5I and 5J the following terms shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Access device”, a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preventing electronic benefit transfer transactions for certain purchases made using direct cash assistance funds; penalty - Chapter 18, Section 5J
  (a) The department shall maintain policies and practices as necessary to prevent cash assistance provided under this chapter from being used in any electronic benefit...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obtaining or receiving department of transitional assistance property through embezzlement, theft or fraud; penalty - Chapter 18, Section 5K
  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, whoever embezzles, steals or obtains by fraud any funds, assets or property provided by the department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Food stamp benefits trafficking; penalty - Chapter 18, Section 5L
  (a) As used this section and section 5M, “food stamp benefits” shall mean benefits issued pursuant to the federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Organizational food stamp benefits trafficking; penalty - Chapter 18, Section 5M
  (a) As used in this section, “organization” shall mean a corporation for profit or not-for-profit, partnership, limited partnership, joint venture, unincorporated association, estate, trust or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraud hotline; sign display - Chapter 18, Section 5N
  The department shall develop and make available on its website for download a sign specifying the department’s fraud hotline. Business associations may also maintain a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 11 - Chapter 18, Section 6
  Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Community service area boards - Chapter 18, Section 7
  There shall be established for each community service area a community service area board, the members of which shall be appointed for three-year terms by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil service status of commissioners; restoration - Chapter 18, Section 8
  The provisions of section nine A of chapter thirty and the provisions of chapter thirty-one shall not apply to the office of commissioner, deputy commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees of department; delegation of responsibilities - Chapter 18, Section 9
  The commissioner shall appoint and may remove all employees in the department. All such appointments and removals shall be made in accordance with chapter thirty-one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports; rules and regulations; federal aid - Chapter 18, Section 10
  The commissioner shall annually prepare and submit to the governor and the general court, on or before the first day of November, a report which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lists of recipients; publication; records; rules and regulations - Chapter 18, Section 11
  No department, bureau or agency of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof, which under any provision of law is furnished with the names...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 552, Sec. 8 - Chapter 18, Section 12 13
  Repealed, 1978, 552, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal agreements - Chapter 18, Section 14
  The department is hereby authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states regarding the interstate transportation of poor and indigent persons, and to arrange...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure of information by banks and insurance companies as to applicant’s or recipient’s deposits; penalty - Chapter 18, Section 15
  A treasurer of a savings bank, national bank, trust company, co-operative bank, benefit association, insurance company or safe deposit company authorized to do business in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of hearings within office of deputy commissioner; director; denial of aid; hearing; referee; decision; review - Chapter 18, Section 16
  There shall be within the office of the deputy commissioner a division of hearings for the purpose of holding the hearings referred to herein and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 460, Sec. 4 - Chapter 18, Section 16A
  Repealed, 1993, 460, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advancement of funds to department for public assistance; monthly report of disbursements - Chapter 18, Section 17
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-two of chapter twenty-nine or any other provisions of law, funds made available by appropriation, or otherwise, for enabling the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of department; recipient arrearages; furniture payments - Chapter 18, Section 18
  In any case where the department is obligated to pay any sums in excess of the approved budget because of an arrearage incurred by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure of custodial parent to cooperate with IV-D agency - Chapter 18, Section 18A
  The department shall impose the sanction required by federal law for any applicant or recipient of public assistance who fails, without good cause as defined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eviction from furnished apartment; furniture; relocation - Chapter 18, Section 19
  In the case of an emergency or where a recipient is evicted from a furnished or partially furnished apartment and does not have sufficient basic...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of home or income producing property - Chapter 18, Section 20
  The department may, after approval by the commissioner, authorize the purchase of a home by a recipient where suitable public or private rental accommodations cannot...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Support and maintenance; subrogation of department; termination of assistance; notice - Chapter 18, Section 21
  The department shall be subrogated to the rights to support and maintenance of any welfare recipient to the extent of any payments made by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Verification of categorical and financial eligibility - Chapter 18, Section 22
  For the purpose of considering the need for service or assistance of an applicant or recipient of programs provided in accordance with chapters one hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 752, Sec. 12 - Chapter 18, Section 23 to 25
  Repealed, 1974, 752, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Direct payment of rent; public housing; appeal - Chapter 18, Section 26
  The department may, upon the written request of any person, trust, corporation, or housing authority, that operates or manages any federal, state or municipally subsidized...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Direct payment of rent; request of landlord or recipient - Chapter 18, Section 27
  The department may, upon the written request of the landlord in the case of a recipient who is in arrears in his rent payment for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Direct deposit of assistance checks at banking institutions; option of recipient - Chapter 18, Section 27A
  A recipient of financial aid from the department shall be given the option of instructing said department to forward all checks of such person to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accreditation of homemaker services; board, establishment, members, staff and services; standards; rules and regulations; restrictions; enforcement - Chapter 18, Section 28
  For the purposes of this section the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings: (1) “Homemaker services”, care of individuals...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repayment of fraudulently obtained assistance; lien - Chapter 18, Section 29
  (a)(1) Whenever, by virtue of an investigation by the bureau of special investigations pursuant to section 17 of chapter 11, a person, hereinafter called an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Overpayments of assistance; repayment agreement; assignment of income - Chapter 18, Section 30
  (a) This section shall apply to the collection of overpayments of financial assistance paid by the department to persons receiving benefits under any program of...

Last modified: September 11, 2015