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Section 1 - Department of Transitional Assistance - Section 1. There shall be a department of transitional assistance,...
Section 2 - Comprehensive Financial Assistance Program; Services - Section 2. (A) The department shall provide and administer throughout...
Section 2a - Food Stamp Employment and Training Plan; Maximization of Federal 50–50 Match Program - Section 2A. (a) The department of transitional assistance shall amend...
Section 2b - Educational Program; Services - Section 2B. (a) Subject to appropriation, the department of transitional...
Section 3 - Commissioner; Appointment; Qualifications; Salary - Section 3. The department shall be under the direction, supervision...
Section 4 - Deputy Commissioner; Assistant Commissioners; Qualifications; Salaries; Succession; Bond - Section 4. The commissioner shall appoint a deputy commissioner and...
Section 5 - Organization of Department; Regional Offices; Community Service Areas - Section 5. The commissioner shall establish such divisions, bureaus, sections...
Section 5b - False Representations or Failure to Disclose Facts; Penalty - Section 5B. Any person or institution which knowingly makes a...
Section 5c - Vendors' Bill for Services; Perjury - Section 5C. Any vendor under any assistance program administered by...
Section 5d - Vendors; Violations - Section 5D. Any vendor procuring a payment under any assistance...
Section 5e - Return of Unlawful Payments - Section 5E. Any recipient or vendor who receives payment under...
Section 5f - Father's Leaving Family to Obtain Assistance; Penalty - Section 5F. A father who leaves his family for the...
Section 5g - Claimant; Subrogation - Section 5G. (a) As used in this section, the following...
Section 5h - Recipients of Medical Assistance Under Chapter 118e; Subrogation; Notice; Policy Provisions; Payment by Department; Information Concerning Recipients - Section 5H. Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special...
Section 5i - Certain Purchases With Direct Cash Assistance Funds Prohibited; Definitions Applicable to Secs. 5i and 5j; Penalty; Reporting of Enforcement and Violations - Section 5I. (a) As used in sections 5I and 5J...
Section 5j - Preventing Electronic Benefit Transfer Transactions for Certain Purchases Made Using Direct Cash Assistance Funds; Penalty - Section 5J. (a) The department shall maintain policies and practices...
Section 5k - Obtaining or Receiving Department of Transitional Assistance Property Through Embezzlement, Theft or Fraud; Penalty - Section 5K. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...
Section 5l - Food Stamp Benefits Trafficking; Penalty - Section 5L. (a) As used this section and section 5M,...
Section 5m - Organizational Food Stamp Benefits Trafficking; Penalty - Section 5M. (a) As used in this section, ''organization'' shall...
Section 5n - Fraud Hotline; Sign Display - Section 5N. The department shall develop and make available on...
Section 7 - Community Service Area Boards - Section 7. There shall be established for each community service...
Section 8 - Civil Service Status of Commissioners; Restoration - Section 8. The provisions of section nine A of chapter...
Section 9 - Employees of Department; Delegation of Responsibilities - Section 9. The commissioner shall appoint and may remove all...
Section 10 - Reports; Rules and Regulations; Federal Aid - Section 10. The commissioner shall annually prepare and submit to...
Section 11 - Lists of Recipients; Publication; Records; Rules and Regulations - Section 11. No department, bureau or agency of the commonwealth...
Section 14 - Reciprocal Agreements - Section 14. The department is hereby authorized to enter into...
Section 15 - Disclosure of Information by Banks and Insurance Companies as to Applicant's or Recipient's Deposits; Penalty - Section 15. A treasurer of a savings bank, national bank,...
Section 16 - Division of Hearings Within Office of Deputy Commissioner; Director; Denial of Aid; Hearing; Referee; Decision; Review - Section 16. There shall be within the office of the...
Section 17 - Advancement of Funds to Department for Public Assistance; Monthly Report of Disbursements - Section 17. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-two of chapter...
Section 18 - Reimbursement of Department; Recipient Arrearages; Furniture Payments - Section 18. In any case where the department is obligated...
Section 18a - Failure of Custodial Parent to Cooperate With Iv–d Agency - Section 18A. The department shall impose the sanction required by...
Section 19 - Eviction From Furnished Apartment; Furniture; Relocation - Section 19. In the case of an emergency or where...
Section 20 - Purchase of Home or Income Producing Property - Section 20. The department may, after approval by the commissioner,...
Section 21 - Support and Maintenance; Subrogation of Department; Termination of Assistance; Notice - Section 21. The department shall be subrogated to the rights...
Section 22 - Verification of Categorical and Financial Eligibility - Section 22. For the purpose of considering the need for...
Section 26 - Direct Payment of Rent; Public Housing; Appeal - Section 26. The department may, upon the written request of...
Section 27 - Direct Payment of Rent; Request of Landlord or Recipient - Section 27. The department may, upon the written request of...
Section 27a - Direct Deposit of Assistance Checks at Banking Institutions; Option of Recipient - Section 27A. A recipient of financial aid from the department...
Section 28 - Accreditation of Homemaker Services; Board, Establishment, Members, Staff and Services; Standards; Rules and Regulations; Restrictions; Enforcement - Section 28. For the purposes of this section the following...
Section 29 - Repayment of Fraudulently Obtained Assistance; Lien - Section 29. (a)(1) Whenever, by virtue of an investigation by...
Section 30 - Overpayments of Assistance; Repayment Agreement; Assignment of Income - Section 30. (a) This section shall apply to the collection...
Section 31 - Job Diversion Program; Services - Section 31. (a) The department, in collaboration with the commonwealth...
Section 32 - Participation in Pathways to Self-Sufficiency Program Required; Exceptions - Section 32. The department shall require participation in the pathways...
Section 33 - Providing of Social Security Number Required; Exceptions; Penalty for Noncompliance - Section 33. The department shall require applicants or recipients of...
Section 34 - Tracking of Outcomes of Individuals Served by Training and Employment Service Programs - Section 34. The department shall require all training and employment...
Section 35 - Availability of Caseworker via Telephone to Recipient of Cash Assistance - Section 35. The department shall ensure when a recipient of...
Section 36 - Fraud Detection Program - Section 36. (a) The department, in consultation with the bureau...
Section 37 - Work-Related Expense Deduction - Section 37. The department shall allow applicants or recipients, who...
Section 38 - Non-Approval of Application for New Benefits for Failure to Comply With Registration Requirements in Secs. 178c to 178p of Chapter 6 - Section 38. The department shall not approve an application for...
Section 39 - Protocols for Coordination of Information With Law Enforcement Agencies, Etc. When Recipient the Subject of Felony Warrant - Section 39. The department shall develop protocols for coordinating information...