Bill > S2039

This bill aims to provide emergency aid to certain elderly and disabled residents in the Commonwealth. The key provisions include: 1. Ensuring that homeless individuals who are otherwise eligible receive the same payment rate as recipients who incur shelter costs, such as rent or a mortgage. The Department of Transitional Assistance (the Department) will promulgate necessary rules and regulations to implement this. 2. Requiring the Department to increase the total budget of each eligible recipient by a percentage amount equal to the rise in the United States Consumer Price Index, plus any additional percentage amount recommended by the Department and appropriated by the General Court. 3. Setting the combined asset limit for an assistance unit at $2,500, while excluding the first $15,000 in fair market value of a vehicle and allowing the Commissioner to grant a waiver for a vehicle with a higher value if necessary. 4. Directing the Department to set the maximum benefit for the program in Chapter 117A at the same level as the program in Chapter 118 of the General Laws, and to promulgate necessary rules and regulations to implement this.

Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2039