Application Procedures

Applications hereunder shall be filed with the Secretaryof DVS, upon forms to be furnished by him or her. The Secretary may accept the written statement of the clerk of a city or town that a person claimingpayor onwhose account pay is claimed or on whose account pay is claimed bya dependent or heir-at-law, under the provisions of 108 CMR 11.00, was domiciled therein on the first day of January, 1990 or 1991 as prima facie evidence of domicile, and he or she may accept such other evidence of domicile as he or she may consider adequate or necessary. The clerks of the several cities and towns shall, at the request of the Secretary, forthwith furnish such information relative to such domicile as their records may disclose. The Secretary may require and acceptsuchadditionalevidence as he or she may consider necessary to establish the fact of domicile within the Commonwealth as provided for under the provisions of 108 CMR 11.01(1). 108 CMR: DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' SERVICES