Code of Massachusetts Regulations
106 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSITIONAL ASSISTANCE
Title 106 CMR 704.000 - Transitional Cash Assistance Program: Financial Eligibility
Section 704.435 - EAEDC Living Arrangement

Universal Citation: 106 MA Code of Regs 106.704

Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024

(A) Definition. In order to be eligible for EAEDC, the living arrangement of EAEDC applicants or clients must be one of the following:

(1) Living Arrangement A: an EAEDC individual or EAEDC family who is responsible for a shelter cost, including, but not limited to, rent, mortgage, real estate taxes, insurance, fuel or utility expenses or room or board expenses from a licensed lodging house, and who:
(a) Lives alone; or

(b) Lives with others (including another assistance unit, applying for or receiving TAFDC where there is no legal obligation to support), except as provided in 106 CMR 704.435(A)(2) or (3);

(2) Living Arrangement B: an EAEDC individual or EAEDC family who lives with another assistance unit who is applying for, or receiving TAFDC, including spouses, and a legal obligation to support exists between a member of the TAFDC assistance unit and a member of the EAEDC assistance unit, except as provided in 106 CMR 704.435(A)(3)(b);

(3) Living Arrangement H: the EAEDC individual or EAEDC family, who is responsible for a shelter cost as specified in 106 CMR 704.435(A)(1), and is in one of the following circumstances:
(a) Lives with a spouse who is applying for or receiving EAEDC; or

(b) Lives with a spouse and a child who is not the natural or adoptive child of the spouse and the spouse is applying for or receiving TAFDC only or for himself or herself and the child;

(4) Living Arrangement C: an EAEDC individual who resides in a halfway house, licensed chronic hospital, licensed nursing home, approved public medical institution, licensed intermediate care facility, residential treatment center or public psychiatric institution;

(5) Living Arrangement D: an EAEDC individual in one or more of the following circumstances:
(a) An individual, including an individual with no established place of abode, who pays no shelter costs; or

(b) An individual in a temporary emergency shelter;

(6) Living Arrangement E: an EAEDC individual who resides in an assisted living community or a licensed rest home, also known as a residential care facility; and

(7) Living Arrangement F: an EAEDC individual who resides in a therapeutic community center.

(B) Verification. The verification of living arrangement is mandatory and shall be proven by a written, dated, and signed statement from the applicant or client and any other appropriate individual based on Living Arrangement type.

Living Arrangement

Verification Required

A

a rent or mortgage statement; and/or proof of responsibility for any other shelter cost; and/or a room and/or board receipt; and/or a written statement from the individual or family with whom the individual or family shares the shelter expenses that specifies how the shelter expenses are shared.

B

a written statement from the spouse.

H

a written statement from the individual with whom the applicant or client shares shelter costs that specifies what shelter costs are shared.

C

a statement from an authorized person at the halfway house, licensed chronic hospital, approved public medical institution, licensed intermediate care facility, public psychiatric institution or residential treatment center.

D

a statement from an authorized person at the shelter if a resident of an emergency shelter; or a signed and dated statement from the applicant or client that he or she has no shelter costs.

E

a written statement from an authorized person at the assisted living community or the rest home.

F

a written statement from an authorized person at the therapeutic community center.

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