If you are a TAFDC recipient and someone in your household has income from a job or worked in the past two months, you may have to turn in a report form every month to keep getting cash and SNAP/food stamp benefits. 106 C.M.R. §§ 366.110(D), 702.900-702.980. Your monthly SNAP/food stamp and TAFDC benefits are then calculated based on the income reported on these forms. There is no monthly reporting in SNAP/food stamps if you are not getting TAFDC.
DTA mails these forms directly to you. They have to be filled out completely and turned in with pay stubs within 20 days of when they were mailed to you for you to keep getting your benefits on time. Be sure to ask for help from DTA if you do not understand the forms. See MLRI's TAFDC Advocacy Guide for more information on monthly reporting.
Produced by Patricia Baker, Laura Gallant, Deborah Harris, Rochelle Hahn Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Last updated January 2011
