3002.7 Extensions

The Division will limit extensions to those families who can demonstrate that: · the agency substantially failed to provide the services specified in the individual's Contract of Mutual Responsibility (see Section 3009 for Contract); the related extension will correspond to the time period for which services were not provided; or · despite their best efforts to find and keep employment, no suitable unsubsidized employment was available in the local economy to the employable adult caretaker; the maximum extension under such circumstances will be 12 cumulative months. See "SUITABLE EMPLOYMENT" definition. The Division Director or the Director's designee will make decisions on granting extensions within 45 days of the request. Fair hearing provisions set forth in Section 5000 apply. Benefits will not continue beyond the time limit. The Division will not grant extensions if: · the adult caretaker received and rejected offers of employment, quit a job without good cause, or was fired for cause; · the adult caretaker did not make a good faith effort to comply with the terms of the CONTRACT OF MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY; or · the adult caretaker has received 60 cumulative months of TANF. The responsibility rests with the adult caretaker to demonstrate substantiality. It is not enough for the adult caretaker to simply make a claim that the agency failed in its effort to provide the services specified under the Contract of Mutual Responsibility. The adult caretaker must present the reasons for the claim and show how the agency failed to provide these services.