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September, 2008 IV/12.1,12.5 VI/6.3,8.5.1 Exhibit VI-5 Updates Food Stamp income limits, deduction amounts, and maximum benefits, increases automatic Food Stamp benefit for certain categorically eligible households, and uncaps Food Stamp dependent care deductions effective October 1, 2008 September, 2008 VI/8.4 Exhibit VI-4 Updates TANF Payment Levels effective November 1, 2008 November, 2008 I/2.2.1 Exhibit VI-1 VII/1.11-1.12 Exhibit VII-1 Removes Asset Test for QMB/SLIMB effective November 1, 2008 November, 2008 IV/7.9.6 Updates Credits of Qualifying Quarters chart for 2008 and 2009 December, 2008 VI/1.28 VII/2.13 Adds Language Regarding Penalties Under Long-Term Care and Home-And-Community-Based Services Waiver for Transferring Assets for Less than Market Value December, 2008 V/1.6 Clarifies that a woman in the second or third trimester of pregnancy is exempt from TANF work participation requirements December, 2008 IV/4.4 Clarifies for Food Stamps that students must be enrolled in an institution of higher education at least half-time before they can be required to meet extra criteria to participate. December, 2008 VI, Exhibit VI-4 Updates TANF Payment Levels effective January 1, 2009 December, 2008 VI/4.16b Corrects Food Stamp policy regarding Guardianship Subsidy payments to say that children for whom Guardianship Subsidy payments are received can be included in or excluded from the Food Stamp household like a Foster Child
December, 2008 VI/4.16a Adds language expanding the definition of who can receive the Grandparents Caregivers Subsidy to include persons who were grandparents, great-grandparents, great-aunts, and great- uncles of a child before adopting the child. January, 2009 VII/2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.9.1 Updates Impoverished Spouse Standards for 2009 February, 2009 VI/Exhibit VI-3 Updates Medicaid income scales due to new Federal Poverty Levels February, 2009 IV/12.1, 12.5 VI/8.5.1 VI/Exhibit VI-5 Updates Maximum and Minimum Food Stamp Allotments Effective April 1, 2009 August, 2009 II/1.4 VIII/TOC VIII/5.7 Moves EBT card replacement information from Part II to part VIII and adds information on replacing Food Stamp benefits lost due to household misfortune August, 2009 VII/TOC VII/4.1, 4.3.1, 4.3.8 Updates requirements for DC HealthCare Alliance to exclude persons enrolled in any part of Medicare or who are enrolled in any third party health insurance program September, 2009 VI/Exhibit VI-5 VI/6.3, pages 3-4 Updates Food Stamp income limits and deduction amounts effective October 1, 2009