State cracks down on welfare cases with warrants.
In it, reporter Andrea Estes details the initial results of the Department of Transitional Assistance's new policy on court warrant defaults. DTA has cross-checked their recipient lists with court lists to discover who has outstanding default warrants in Massachusetts. Recipients have 30 days, once notified by DTA, to make a good faith effort to clear up their warrants. If they do not do so, the recipient will be sanctioned with either a partial or complete cut in their benefits. Most people, as the Herald mentioned, are in default for traffic violations and petty larceny.