Without specific documentation, DTA will not change their policies. Contact Rodgers with your stories. Since the federal government now does not give food stamps to immigrants, the state is trying to pick up the slack. Please call your state representative and ask him to speak with House Speaker Finneran. Your representative should ask Finneran to take up this issue quickly, before the holidays so that people will have enough food.
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.