Composition of the EAEDC Assistance Unit and Filing Unit

(A) Composition of the EAEDC Assistance Unit. (1) When an application is made by an elderly person, the assistance unit shall include the elderly person; (2) When an application is made by a disabled person, the assistance unit shall include the disabled person; (3) When an application is made by a person participating in MRC, the assistance unit shall include the person participating in MRC; (4) When an application is made by a person caring for a disabled person, the assistance unit shall include the person caring for the disabled person; When an application is made by a caretaker for dependent children, the following persons must be included in the assistance unit unless one or more of these persons meets one of the exceptions provided in 106 CMR 703.700(C): (a) the dependent child as defined in 106 CMR 701.600: Definition of Terms; and (b) the siblings and half-siblings of the dependent child. 704.305 : continued (e) an applicant categorically ineligible due to his or her noncitizen status. However, income from an individual who has a legal obligation to support and who lives in the same household as the dependent child shall be deemed to the assistance unit in accordance with 106 CMR 704.330(B)(l); (f) a noncitizen who is ineligible because the noncitizen indicated an inability or unwillingness to provide information about, or acceptable verification of, an eligible noncitizen status or to provide, or apply for, a Social Security Number due to immigration status in accordance with 106 CMR 703.400: Citizens, Noncitizen, and Canadian-born Indians. However, income from an individual who has a legal obligation to support and lives in the same household as the dependent child shall be deemed to the assistance unit in accordance with 106 CMR 704.330(B)(l); and These persons listed in 106 CMR 704.305(A)(5)(a) through (g) are also excluded from the filing unit. (B) Composition of the Filing Unit. The following individuals must be included in the filing unit, (their income must be included in determining the assistance unit's eligibility and the grant amount): (1) All individuals in the assistance unit as defined in 106 CMR 704.305(A); and Individuals required to be in the assistance unit, but who have failed to fulfill an eligibility requirement, been sanctioned, or have failed to cooperate. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: (a) an individual sanctioned for failure to comply with child support requirements as provided in 106 CMR 703.500: TAFDC Cooperation with Child Support Requirements; (b) an individual sanctioned for failure to comply with the Department's employment and training program requirements as provided in 106 CMR 707.000: ESP Overview/Participation Requirements; (c) an individual sanctioned for failure to comply with the Work Program as provided in 106 CMR 703.150: TAFDC Work Program; ( d) an individual sanctioned for failure to comply with the immunization requirements as provided in 106 CMR 703.160: TAFDC Immunizations; (e) an individual sanctioned for failure to comply with the Leamfare requirements as provided in 106 CMR 703 .170: TAFDC Learn fare; (f) an individual who fails to meet the requirement to provide a social security number; (g) an individual sanctioned for failure to cooperate in identifying and providing information that would help the Department pursue any third-party liability for medical services, as provided in 106 CMR 703.540: TAFDC Cooperation in Obtaining Third­ party Liability Coverage for Medical Services; (h) a teen parent sanctioned for the first instance of noncompliance with the school attendance requirements as provided in 106 CMR 703.181: TAFDC Teen Parent Eligibility; and (i) an individual sanctioned for a court conviction for fraud as provided in 106 CMR 706.305 : Intentional Program Violations (IPV) Disqualification Penalties 704.3 10: Composition of the EAEDC Assistance Unit and Filing Unit (A) Composition of the EAEDC Assistance Unit. (1) When an application is made by an elderly person, the assistance unit shall include the elderly person; (2) When an application is made by a disabled person, the assistance unit shall include the disabled person; (3) When an application is made by a person participating in MRC, the assistance unit shall include the person participating in MRC; (4) When an application is made by a person caring for a disabled person, the assistance unit shall include the person caring for the disabled person; When an application is made by a caretaker for dependent children, the following persons must be included in the assistance unit unless one or more of these persons meets one of the exceptions provided in 106 CMR 703.700(C): (a) the dependent child as defined in 106 CMR 701 .600: Definition of Terms; and (b) the siblings and half-siblings of the dependent child. The caretaker may include or exclude himself or herself only from the assistance unit, but the caretaker may not be an assistance unit of one when the dependent children and the siblings and half-siblings in the home are foster children. (B) Composition of the Filing Unit. The following persons must be included in the filing unit and their income must be used to determine the assistance unit's eligibility and the amount of the grant: (1) persons in the assistance unit as defined in 106 CMR 704.310(A); (2) the spouse living in the home of a person in the assistance unit who is applying for or receiving EAEDC as provided in 106 CMR 703.191: EAEDC Disability Process, 703.600: EAEDC Elderly - 65 Years of Age or Older, 703.610: EAEDC Participant in a Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission Program, 703.620: EAEDC Caring for the Disabled; and (3) the disabled person who is being cared for as provided by 106 CMR 703.620: EAEDC Caretaker Family. The income of this person must be used to determine eligibility of the person providing the care in accordance with 106 CMR 704.340.