106 CMR, § 703.500 - TAFDC Cooperation with Child Support Requirements
Requirements.
(A) A grantee, or a teen parent who is not
the grantee, must:
(1) assign to the
Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) any rights that he or she may have
to child or spousal support or child support for a dependent child from any
other person in accordance with
106 CMR
703.510;
(2) cooperate and continue to cooperate with
DTA, and the Child Support Enforcement Division of the Department of Revenue
(DOR) to:
(a) make reasonable efforts to
furnish identifying information about any noncustodial parent;
(b) establish parentage;
(c) establish, modify or enforce a child
support order for each dependent child; and
(d) pay to DOR any child and spousal support
payments received from any noncustodial parent after an assignment has been
made; and
(3) identify
and provide information that would help DTA pursue any third-party liability
for medical expenses.
(B)
A grantee, or a teen parent who is not the grantee, is not required to
cooperate when there is good cause for noncooperation as specified in
106 CMR
703.521. DTA determines whether there is good
cause for noncooperation.
(C) When
a grantee refuses to assign any rights that he or she may have to child or
spousal support from any other person, assistance for the entire assistance
unit shall be denied or terminated until such time as the requirements of
106 CMR
703.510 are met.
(D) When a teen parent who is not the grantee
refuses to assign any rights that he or she has to child or spousal support
from any other person in accordance with
106 CMR
703.510, assistance for the teen parent and
his or her dependent child shall be denied or terminated until such time as the
requirements are met.
(E) When a
grantee (including an ineligible grantee or a teen parent who is not the
grantee), fails without good cause to cooperate, then he or she will be
sanctioned by DTA:
(1) by the reduction of
cash benefits by:
(a) an amount equal to his
or her portion of the assistance grant, if applicable; and
(b) an additional reduction that together
equal a reduction of not less than 25% of the Payment Standard for the current
assistance unit size until such time as the requirements of
106 CMR
703.510 are met; and
(2) if it is the grantee who will not
cooperate, by the establishment of vendor payments, to the extent possible, for
any cash assistance for which the remaining members of the assistance unit are
eligible.
Notes
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