Release 56: Effective 01/01/10

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Related Programs -
Table of Contents


Emergency Assistance | Housing Stabilization | Post-TANF | Pre SSI/SSDI (SFPSS) | Pre-TANF | Refugee | TA-DVS | TANF |
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Pre-TANF Program

  1. Program Intent and Overview

    1. Program Intent
    2. Program Overview

  2. Application, Verification, Eligibility, and Participation

    1. Application Process
    2. Who Must Participate in the Pre-TANF Program Initial Assessment Process
    3. Who Must Participate in Pre-TANF Program Employment and Self-Sufficiency Services
    4. Who Is Likely to Benefit from Continued Participation in Pre-TANF Program Services
    5. Pre-TANF Program Duration
    6. Medical Assistance Eligibility
    7. Pre-TANF Program Clients Who Locate Employment
    8. Verification for TANF Eligibility

  3. Case Management

    1. Initial Assessment
    2. Pre-TANF Program Case Plans

  4. Determining, Calculating, and Issuing Benefits

    1. Program Benefits
    2. Determining and Issuing Benefits

  5. Noncooperation and Disqualification

    1. Willful Noncompliance During the Pre-TANF Program for Presumed TANF Eligible
    2. Noncompliance Where TANF Eligibility Is In Question

  6. Ending the Pre-TANF Program

    1. Ending the Pre-TANF Program
    2. Medical Assistance Eligibility
    3. Denying the TANF Application
    4. Transition/Retention Services

Temporary Assistance for Domestic Violence Survivors (TA-DVS)

  1. Program Intent and Overview

    1. Program Intent
    2. Program Overview

  2. Needs Assessment

  3. Domestic Violence Assistance Agreements (DVAA)

  4. Application Process

    1. The Application Form is the Application for Services – Food Stamps, Cash, Child Care, Medical, Domestic Violence  (DHS 415F)
    2. Date of Application
    3. Processing Time Frames
    4. When a New Application is Required
    5. Approval and Denial Notices

  5. Eligibility Requirements

  6. Financial Eligibility Requirements

  7. Verification

  8. Program Benefits

    1. Shelter and Relocation Needs
    2. Food Needs
    3. Medical Needs
    4. Other Payments

  9. Payment Limits

  10. Time Limits

  11. Issuing Payments and Notification

    1. Deciding When to Make a Payment and Appropriate Notices
    2. Housing-Related Payments
    3. Roommates
    4. TA-DVS Payment Considerations
    5. Issuing the Payment
    6. Notices

Hearings; Overpayments; Intentional Program Violations

  1. Hearings
  2. Overpayments
  3. Intentional Program Violations

TANF

  1. Program Intent and Overview

    1. Program Intent
    2. Program Overview

  2. Application and Redetermination

    1. Application Process
    2. Who Must Sign an Application and Complete the Application Process
    3. Withdrawal of Applications or Noncompletion of the Application Process
    4. When to Open a TANF Grant
    5. Redetermination of Eligibility
    6. Verification of Eligibility

  3. Eligibility Determination Groups

    1. Definitions
    2. Household Group
    3. Filing Group
    4. Financial Group
    5. Need Group
    6. Benefit Group

  4. Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements

    1. Age
    2. Residence
    3. Citizen/Alien Status
    4. Social Security Number
    5. School Attendance
    6. Pursuing Assets
    7. Pursuing Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment
    8. Cooperation With Division of Child Support (DCS)
    9. Requirement to Live with a Caretaker Relative
    10. Separation from most recent employment; caretaker relative in the need group

  5. Deprivation

    1. Determining Deprivation for a Child
    2. Determining Deprivation for a Child/Unborn Without Legal Paternity
    3. Deprivation Based on Death
    4. Deprivation Based on Continued Absence
    5. Deprivation Based on Incapacity
    6. Medical Documentation
    7. Deprivation Based on Unemployment
    8. Change in Basis of Deprivation

  6. Cooperation, Noncooperation, Re-Engagement and Penalties for Noncompliance

    1. What Is Cooperation?
    2. Cooperation Incentive Payment (COI)
    3. Who Must Cooperate?
    4. Who Is Exempt from JOBS Program Participation and Who is Exempt from JOBS Program?
    5. Who Can Volunteer to Participate in Employment Programs?
    6. Employment Program Cooperation
    7. Child and Medical Support Cooperation
    8. What Is Good Cause?
    9. Good Cause for Noncooperation With Employment Programs
    10. Good Cause for Job Quit
    11. Good Cause for Missed Appointments
    12. Good Cause When the Clients Meet Federal Participation Requirements
    13. Good Cause for Noncooperation With Alcohol & Drug or Mental Health Treatment
    14. Good Cause for Noncooperation With DCS for Child and Medical Support
    15. Good Cause for Not Pursuing Assets
    16. What Is Noncooperation?
    17. Discharge for Misconduct
    18. Strikers
    19. What Is Re-Engagement?
    20. Penalties for Noncooperation
    21. Employment Program Disqualification
    22. Disqualification for Alcohol & Drug or Mental Health Noncooperation
    23. Counting the Disqualification/Noncooperation Penalty Months
    24. Penalty for Failure to Cooperate With Support (Cash and Medical)
    25. Penalty for Not Pursuing Available Assets
    26. Ending Employment Program Disqualification
    27. Ending Alcohol & Drug/Mental Health Treatment Disqualification
    28. Ending DCS Disqualification
    29. Pursuing Assets

  7. Financial Eligibility

    1. Requirements
    2. Resource and Resource Limit
    3. Determining the Resource Value of Vehicles for the Pre-TANF Program and TANF
    4. Availability of Income
    5. Unavailability of Income and Resources
    6. TANF Income and Payment Standards
    7. Asset Quick-Reference Chart

  8. Eligibility and Budgeting

    1. When to Use Prospective Eligibility or Budgeting
    2. Converting Stable Income
    3. Averaging Income
    4. Anticipating Earned Income
    5. Annualizing Income
    6. When to Use Retrospective Eligibility or Budgeting

  9. Determining and Calculating Benefits

    1. Income Tests
    2. Countable Income Test
    3. Adjusted Income Test
    4. Income and Payment Standards
    5. Non-needy Countable Income Limit Standard
    6. Prorated Standards; No Adult Household
    7. Overview of Costs

  10. Eligibility for Minor Parents

    1. Minor Parents Living Away From Home
    2. Minor Parents Living With Their Parents

  11. Domestic Violence and TANF Eligibility

    1. Definition
    2. Guidelines
    3. Waiver of Support and Other TANF Requirements
    4. Cooperation With JOBS or Child Support
    5. Noncooperation with JOBS
    6. Confidentiality and Narration in Cases Where Domestic Violence is Present
    7. Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse in Domestic Violence Cases
    8. Use of the Safety Assessment (DHS 7802) Form
    9. Coding, Issuing and Tracking Payments in Waiver Situations

  12. Eligibility for Noncitizens (Obsolete)

  13. Reporting and Acting on Changes

    1. Reporting Requirements
    2. What To Do When a Client Reports a Change
    3. Late, Incomplete or Nonreporting
    4. Change in Basis of Deprivation
    5. Change in Household Composition
    6. Change in Income
    7. Changes Reported Through the MRS
    8. Who Must Be in the MRS
    9. When a Monthly Change Report Is Considered Complete
    10. Changes Not Reported Through the MRS
    11. Changes Not Reported in a Timely Manner

  14. Time Limit for TANF

  15. Decision Notices

    1. Types of Decision Notices
    2. What a Decision Notice Must Contain
    3. TANF Notice Situations

  16. Tribal TANF

    1. Overview
    2. Tribes Operating TANF Programs
    3. Tribal TANF Service Areas and Service Population
    4. Tribal TANF and DHS TANF
    5. Tribal TANF and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
    6. Tribal TANF and Child Care

Post-TANF

  1. Program Intent and Overview

    1. Program Intent
    2. Program Overview

  2. Application and Redetermination

    1. Application Process
    2. Who Must Request Post-TANF Benefits
    3. Noncompletion of the Application Process
    4. Who is Eligible for Post-TANF Payments
    5. When to Begin Post-TANF Payments
    6. Redetermination of Eligibility
    7. Verification of Eligibility

  3. Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements

  4. Financial Eligibility

    1. Requirements
    2. Resource and Resource Limits
    3. Post-TANF Income and Payment Standards
    4. Program Benefits

  5. Making Post-TANF Payments

  6. Cooperation, Noncooperation, and Penalties for Noncompliance

    1. What Is Cooperation?
    2. Who Must Cooperate?
    3. Penalties for Non-Cooperation

  7. Reporting and Acting on Changes

    1. Reporting Requirements
    2. What To Do When a Client Reports a Change
    3. Late, Incomplete or Nonreporting
    4. Changes not Reported in a Timely Manner

State Family Pre-SSI/SSDI (SFPSS)

  1. Program Intent and Overview

    1. Program Intent
    2. Program Overview

  2. Eligibility

  3. Nonfinancial Requirements

    1. Specific Program Requirements
    2. Legal Costs
    3. Disability Determination; Overview
    4. Impairments
    5. Individual does not Meet or Equal a Listed Impairment

  4. Financial Requirements

    1. Payment Standard

  5. Issuing Benefits and Changes

    1. Overview of Changes
    2. Changes That Must be Reported
    3. Effective Dates: Initial Month's Benefits
    4. Effective Dates: Other
    5. Effective Dates: Special Circumstances
    6. Redetermination of Eligibility
    7. Redetermination Interview

  6. Participation, Cooperation, and Re-Engagement

    1. Good Cause for Noncooperation with Activities
    2. Good Cause for Missing Appropriate Medical Appointments
    3. Good Cause for Noncooperation with Substance Abuse or Mental Health Treatment
    4. Good Cause for Noncooperation with the Division of Child Support (DCS) for Child and Medical Support
    5. Good Cause for Not Pursuing Assets
    6. What is Noncooperation?
    7. What is Re-Engagement?
    8. SFPSS Re-Engagement Review Process

Worker Guide PSS-1: State Family Pre-SSI/SSDI (SFPSS)

Refugee (REF) Program

  1. Program Intent and Overview

    1. Program Intent
    2. Program Overview

  2. Refugee (REF) Program

    1. Eligibility Determination Groups
    2. Eligibility Requirements; Overview
    3. Alien Status Requirement
    4. Financial Eligibility Requirements
    5. Income and Payment Standards
    6. Cooperation with Assigned Activities for Self-Sufficiency
    7. Medical Coverage for Refugees
    8. SSI for Refugees
    9. Specific Eligibility Requirements
    10. Support Payments and Refugees
    11. Refugee Service Area

Housing Stabilization Program

  1. Program Intent and Overview

    1. Intent
    2. Overview

  2. Application and Eligibility

    1. The Application and Intake Process
    2. Eligibility Requirements
    3. Reason for Need
    4. Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements
    5. Financial Eligibility Requirements
    6. Verification

  3. Program Benefits and Payment Limits

    1. Program Benefits
    2. Payment Limits and Time Limits

  4. Case Management

    1. Case Management Action Plan

Emergency Assistance

  1. Program Intent and Overview

  2. Need Assessment

    1. Reason for Emergent Need

  3. Application Process

    1. The Application Forms
    2. Date of Application and Processing Time Frames

  4. Eligibility Requirements

    1. Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements
    2. Financial Eligibility Requirements
    3. TANF Grant as Unearned Income
    4. SSI Benefits as Unearned Income
    5. Eligibility for Households with Ineligible Noncitizens
    6. Eligibility for Households with Domestic Violence

  5. Verification

  6. Effective Dates

  7. Program Benefits

    1. Shelter Needs
    2. Food Needs
    3. Medical Needs

  8. Payment Limits

  9. Time Limits

  10. Issuing Payments and Notification

  11. Hearings

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