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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

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Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

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January 2024

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In-kind income is something you get free, such as free rent, utilities or food. DTA no longer counts in-kind income. DTA Online Guide Transmittal 2019-63 (Aug. 22, 2019). See Appendix E (DTA Online Guide Links). This change was effective July 1, 2019.

69. What if a stepparent, parent or grandparent refuses to give income information?

71. Do gifts count as income?

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