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TAFDC Advocacy Guide

• Introduction
• Part 1: General Eligibility Rules
• Part 2: Assistance Units
• Part 3: Time Limit and Work Program Rules and Exemptions
• Part 4: Financial Eligibility
  • 59. What is financial eligibility?
  • 60. What is income?
  • 61. What income is not counted?
  • 62. What income is counted?
  • 63. Does TAFDC count assets?
  • 64. What if you are expecting money from an accident or illness?
  • 65. What happens if your child's father (or mother) pays child support?
  • 66. Does DTA ever count money as income even if you do not get it?
  • 67. How does DTA count income of a stepparent or ineligible noncitizen parent?
  • 68. How is grandparent income counted towards the baby of a teen parent?
  • 69. What if a stepparent, parent or grandparent refuses to give income information?
  • 70. Does DTA count in-kind income?
  • 71. Do gifts count as income?
  • 72. How do you figure monthly income?
  • 73. How much income can you have and still qualify for TAFDC?
  • 74. What is the 6-month 100% earned income disregard?
  • 75. How much will you get each month?
  • 76. What is lump sum income and why is it a problem?
  • 77. Can you exclude any money from the lump sum rule?
  • 78. What happens if you run out of money before the lump sum time is up?
• Part 5: Benefits and Services
• Part 6: Applications and Proofs
• Part 7: Proving Continuing Eligibility
• Part 8: Appeal Rights
• Part 9: Overpayments and Fraud
• Appendices

By

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

Reviewed

Reviewed

January 2024

Text

In general, income is money that “comes in.” 106 C.M.R. § 704.100.

An asset is money or property you already have. TAFDC does not count assets effective July 1, 2021. See TAFDC counting assets.

59. What is financial eligibility?

61. What income is not counted?

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