Connecticut Department of Social Services Uniform Policy Manual: 1515.20 Expedited Service - Certification and Entitlement to Benefits

CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF INCOME MAINTENANCEPRIVATE UNIFORM POLICY MANUAL ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: 7-1-87 Transmittal: UP-87-2 1515.20 ______________________________________________________________________________ Section: Type: Eligibility Processs POLICY ______________________________________________________________________________ Chapter: Program: FS Expedited Service _______________________________________________________________ Subject: Certification and Entitlement to Benefits ______________________________________________________________________________

1515.20 A. Completed Applications

1. Assistance units determined eligible without benefit of postponed work registration or verification requirements are certified in accordance with the regular certification procedures for non-expedited cases.

2. Assistance units certified under regular procedures are entitled to receive benefits on an on going basis.

B. Postponed Verification or Work Registration Requirements

1. Eligible assistance units from whom work registration or mandatory verification requirements are postponed are certified:

a. for the month of application if application is made prior to the sixteenth day of the calendar month; or

b. for the month of application and the following month if application is made after the fifteenth day of the calendar month.

2. A redetermination must be completed if the assistance unit is to be certified on an ongoing basis without an interruption in benefits.

3. The following rules regarding benefit entitlement apply to assistance units that are certified for two months and have had verification or work registration requirements postponed:

a. Assistance units, other than migrant farmer assistance units, are entitled to benefits for the month of application only.

b. Migrant farmer assistance units are entitled to benefits:

(1) for the month of application only if a work registration or instate verification requirement is postponed;

CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF INCOME MAINTENANCE UNIFORM POLICY MANUAL ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: 7-1-87 Transmittal: UP-87-2 1515.20 page 2 ______________________________________________________________________________ Section: Type: Eligibility Processs POLICY ______________________________________________________________________________ Chapter: Program: FS Expedited Service _______________________________________________________________ Subject: Certification and Entitlement to Benefits ______________________________________________________________________________

1515.20 B. 3. b. Postponed Verification or Work Registration Requirement (continued)

(2) for the month of application and the following month if out-of-state verification is postponed but all instate requirements are completed.

4. The second month's benefits for assistance units certified for two months are issued within five working days of the date the postponed requirement is completed.

C. Notification

Assistance units certified for two months for whom a work registration or verification requirement is postponed must be notified of the following:

1. that the benefits for the second month will not be issued until the postponed requirement has been completed; and

2. if verification results in a change in eligibility or benefit level that action is taken without notice of adverse action.