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Delaware TANF State Plan 10-1-23 to 09-30-26 Page 13 of 59

TANF eligible families that include a parent or head-of-household who has presented approved documentation that they are unable to work because of a medical disability will be enrolled in the non-time limited program. These clients may receive benefits through either a solely state funded program or the TANF program. Delaware will use State non-maintenance of effort funds to provide benefits to recipients in the solely state funded medical disability program.

Families with the following status will receive benefits in the non- time-limited TANF program: • Families that include adults, who the agency has determined are unemployable, either because a parent is too physically or mentally disabled to work in an unsubsidized work setting or because the parent is needed in the home to care for a child or a spouse who is disabled; • Families headed by a non-needy, non-parent caretaker.; • Families headed by a non-citizen parent who is not eligible to receive TANF benefits; • Families where the agency has determined that the adult caretaker is temporarily unemployable; and • Families in which the adult files a claim or has a claim being adjudicated for SSI or disability insurance under OASDI. In this case, the family must sign an agreement to repay cash benefits received under the non-time-limited TANF program from their SSI/DI benefits.

Contract of Mutual Responsibility requirements and sanctions for noncompliance apply to families in the non-time-limited TANF program. Delaware will provide benefits utilizing solely state funding (SSF) to families that include a head of household or a spouse of a head of household who have exceeded 60 cumulative months of federally funded TANF assistance and represent more than 20 percent of the TANF caseload.

Time Limits

Under TANF, cash benefits are time-limited for households headed by employable adults age 18 or older who are included in the grant. Prior to January 1, 2000, Delaware limited receipt of TANF, for families in the time-limited program, to forty-eight (48) cumulative months. During the time-limited period, employable adults received full benefits if they met the requirements of their Contract of Mutual Responsibility, including employment-related activities.

Effective January 1, 2000, the time limit for receipt of TANF cash benefits is thirty-six (36) cumulative months.