Connecticut Department of Social Services Uniform Policy Manual: 2005.05 AFDC Assistance Unit Requirements - General Provisions

CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICESPRIVATE UNIFORM POLICY MANUAL ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: 11-22-93 Transmittal: UP-93-42 2005.05 ______________________________________________________________________________ Section: Type: Assistance Unit Composition POLICY ______________________________________________________________________________ Chapter: Program: AFDC Assistance Unit Requirements AFDC _______________________________________________________________ Subject: General Provisions ______________________________________________________________________________

2005.05 A. The primary member of the AFDC assistance unit is the dependent child for whom assistance is requested or received. The brothers, sisters and parents of that child who live with the child must be included in the child's assistance unit unless they are otherwise excluded. This is true even if assistance has not been requested for them. It is also true even if one of the children has income specifically designated for his or her needs, unless that income is SSI or AABD.

B. There may be other dependent children in the household who are not siblings who meet the eligibility requirements of the program. These individuals have the option of being members of the same assistance unit or a separate assistance unit.

C. The one exception to the above rule involves a child who receives SSI. Such a child may be the basis of an AFDC assistance unit even though this child is not eligible to be a recipient. The siblings of an SSI child are not mandatory assistance unit members.

D. More than one assistance unit may share living quarters.

1. Unrelated assistance units in the same household are not combined into one assistance unit except at their request.

2. When a woman with dependent children marries a man with dependent children, all of whom request or receive AFDC:

a. two separate assistance units may exist as long as there is no child in common who is eligible for AFDC;

b. one assistance unit exists if they have a child in common who is eligible for AFDC, based on their relationship to the common child.

CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES UNIFORM POLICY MANUAL ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: 10-1-91 Transmittal: UP-91-44 2005.05 page 2 ______________________________________________________________________________ Section: Type: Assistance Unit Composition POLICY ______________________________________________________________________________ Chapter: Program: AFDC Assistance Unit Requirements AFDC _______________________________________________________________ Subject: General Provisions ______________________________________________________________________________

2005.05 E. A dependent child who receives assistance as a mandatory inclusion in a parent's assistance unit may not receive assistance as the caretaker relative of a separate assistance unit while living in the parent's home.

F. A dependent child who lives with a non‑parent caretaker relative may receive assistance as the caretaker relative of a separate unit or remain with her child in the non‑parent caretaker's unit if he or she has no siblings in the home who are eligible as dependent children.