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Chapter: 2200 Standard Filing Unit Program: TCA 22 2220.0408 Needs Excluded (TCA) Passages 2220.0409 through 2220.0410.02 will discuss SFU members whose needs have been excluded from the assistance group. 2220.0409 Individuals Excluded from SFU and AG (TCA) The following individuals cannot be considered in the assistance group. The needs, income, and assets of these individuals are not included in the SFU:

1. individuals who receive SSI benefits or who are included in an SSI benefit as an essential person (refer to passage 2220.0405.03 for the definition of an essential person);

Exception: Concurrent eligibility for payments from SSI and Title IV-E foster care, or from SSI and Title IV-E adoption assistance, is allowed. However, the child's SSI payment will be reduced by the amount of the Title IV-E payment. If the adoptive parents choose only SSI, once the adoption is finalized, and if no adoption assistance agreement is executed, they may not later receive Title IV-E adoption assistance payments.

Note: When the only potentially eligible child in the family receives SSI, the parents or caretaker relative may be eligible to receive TCA for themselves.

2. individuals who receive Optional State Supplementation (OSS);

3. individuals covered under the Institutional Care Program (ICP);

4. individuals who are receiving non-TCA assistance under the Refugee Assistance Program (RAP) in another SFU;

5. individuals who are receiving TCA assistance in another SFU;

6. individuals in a period of ineligibility due to receipt of lump sum income or asset transfer;

7. a teen parent who is a recipient of foster care payments and the child who lives with the child's parent in the foster home. The child may or may not be adjudicated dependent; and

8. a child for whom federal, state or local foster care maintenance payments or adoption assistance payments are provided.

Note: If excluding a child for whom adoption assistance payments are made is disadvantageous, then the child's needs may be included. If the child's needs are included, then the income and assets of the child are also considered, including the adoption assistance payment.