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Chapter: 0200 General Program Information Program: TCA 3 0220.0000 Temporary Cash Assistance This chapter presents general program information about Temporary Cash Assistance. 0220.0001 Caseload Distribution (TCA) Caseload assignments are frequently made according to the characteristics of a given assistance group and the type of assistance received. These breakdowns are called Temporary Cash Assistance cases, Family-Related Medicaid cases, or SSI-Related Medicaid cases. Each type may include food stamps.

A Temporary Cash Assistance case may contain one or more of the following types of assistance: Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA), Refugee Assistance Program (RAP), food stamps, Family-Related Medicaid, MEDS or Medically Needy.

An SSI-Related Medicaid case may contain one or more of the following types of assistance: Institutional Care Program (ICP), MEDS-AD, Protected Medicaid (PM), Medically Needy, Emergency Medicaid for Aliens (EMA), Hospice, Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), Refugee Assistance Program (RAP), Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB), Working Disabled (WD), Special Low Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB), Optional State Supplementation (OSS), Part B Medicare Only (PBMO), Home Care for Disabled Adults (HCDA), or food stamps. All programs are Medicaid Programs except OSS, HCDA and food stamps. The Department of Elder Affairs currently handles Home Care for the Elderly (HCE).

A mixed caseload contains one or more Temporary Cash Assistance or Family-Related Medicaid and SSI-Related types of assistance, with or without food stamps.

Child in Care cases are frequently specialized due to the special confidentiality requirements and unique policy. Therefore, they are not considered part of the Temporary Cash Assistance or Family-Related Medicaid caseload and the information about the case is limited to eligibility specialists with special confidential security profiles. 0220.0100 TEMPORARY CASH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (TCA) Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) is designed to provide financial assistance to children who are deprived of the support or care of one or both parents, who are needy as defined by the Department of Children and Families, and who meet other eligibility criteria. 0220.0101 Legal Basis (TCA) The legal basis for the Temporary Cash Assistance financial programs is Title IV-A and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Public Law 104-193, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), Chapter 414 of the Florida Statutes, court rulings, and Chapter 65A of the Florida Administrative Code. 0220.0102 Program Overview (TCA) With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Congress enabled states to reform welfare programs that had been established by the Social Security Act in 1935. Congress expressed the intent of cash assistance as being, “For the purpose of providing assistance to needy families so that children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of relatives; to end the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage; to prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and establish annual numerical goals for preventing and reducing the incidences of these pregnancies; and to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families”.