Connecticut Department of Social Services Uniform Policy Manual: 2005.20 AFDC Assistance Unit Requirements - Who is Excluded

CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF INCOME MAINTENANCEPRIVATE UNIFORM POLICY MANUAL ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: 5-1-92 Transmittal: UP-92-13 2005.20 ______________________________________________________________________________ Section: Type: Assistance Unit Composition POLICY ______________________________________________________________________________ Chapter: Program: Assistance Unit AFDC _______________________________________________________________ Subject: Who Is Excluded ______________________________________________________________________________

2005.20 Certain individuals are excluded from participating in the AFDC program as members of the assistance unit. These exclusions take precedence over the mandatory inclusion requirement. The following individuals are excluded from the assistance unit:

A. an individual who does not meet the categorical, procedural or technical eligibility requirements for the program;

B. a recipient of Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The exclusion applies as of the month the individual starts to receive SSI checks;

C. a State Supplement recipient;

D. a parent, other than the caretaker relative, who is under sentence of the court serving the sentence doing unpaid work or community service and living at home;

E. a child for whom federal, state or local foster care maintenance payments are made;

F. a child whose minor parent is a recipient of federal, state or local foster care maintenance payments;

G. a child for whom adoption assistance payments are made when the exclusion does not reduce the benefits of the assistance unit in which the child would otherwise be considered a member;

H. a dependent child who returns home for a visit of fewer than 30 consecutive days from an institution which has primary responsibility for the care of the child. These institutions include, but are not limited to, state hospitals, training schools for the mentally retarded, juvenile correctional institutions and foster homes;

I. an individual who was a member of an assistance unit when it received a lump sum which made the unit ineligible for a specified period of time. The individual members of such a unit are excluded from any assistance unit for the prescribed period of ineligibility;

CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF INCOME MAINTENANCE UNIFORM POLICY MANUAL ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: 10-1-92 Transmittal: UP-92-29 2005.20 page 2 ______________________________________________________________________________ Section: Type: Assistance Unit Composition POLICY ______________________________________________________________________________ Chapter: Program: AFDC Assistance Unit Requirements AFDC _______________________________________________________________ Subject: Who Is Excluded ______________________________________________________________________________

2005.20 J. an individual disqualified from the program for any reason, including but not limited to:

1. failure to cooperate with IV-D support requirements;

2. failure to cooperate with work requirements;

3. transferring an asset for the purpose of qualifying for assistance. The individual is excluded from any assistance unit for the prescribed period of ineligibility;

4. failing to comply with or violating any procedural eligibility requirement;

5. delaying or failing to report the presence in the home of a mandatory assistance unit member. This individual is excluded from the assistance unit from the date the individual would have been added until the effective date he or she is made part of the unit;

6. committing an intentional recipient error in the AFDC program. (Cross-Reference: 7050.30)

K. [Reserved]

L. a sponsored non-citizen whose income or assets exceed the program limits.