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MISSISSIPPI [NON-FINANCIAL CRITERIA: SCHOOL ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS] Revised 06-01-09

been established. Both children will be coded noncompliant on ISAT/ISGC, and the sanction will begin in January. On January 1, an alert is received verifying that the younger child is now attending satisfactorily. Compliance will be coded for this child on ISAT/ISGC. However, the case sanction - 25% of TANF and 25% of SNAP benefits - will continue because satisfactory attendance has not yet been verified for the older child. EXAMPLE: The TANF mother has two children, ages 9 and 10. Unsatisfactory attendance is reported on March 1 for January, and the X910 sent that day. No good cause is found, and the 30-day period expires March 31. Sanction is imposed for May. However, on April 12, the MDHS-EA-310 was received verifying compliance for both children in March. It will still be necessary to sanction the case for May as there was one month of unsatisfactory attendance. The sanction will be lifted for June with no further verification required since the county has already been notified that the children are attending satisfactorily. EXAMPLE: The TANF mother has two children, ages 10 and 14. Unsatisfactory attendance is reported on December 1 for October. Both children are in noncompliance. The X910 is sent December 1, and the 30-day period expires December 31. No good cause is found for either child. Effective for the month of February, both children must be coded noncompliant on ISAT/ISGC and the 14-year-old disqualified from the TANF case with a participation code of DI. If the family was receiving a maximum TANF payment of $170, disqualification of the teenager will reduce the grant to $146 and an additional 25% sanction will be applied to this amount for the noncompliant younger child. The SNAP sanction will still be 25% of the allotment. Regardless of the compliance date, at least one month of sanction must be served, which will be February. On February 1, an alert is received verifying compliance for the 10-year-old child. ISAT/ISGC must be coded to show compliance for this child and the case reworked for March. This will remove the 25% TANF sanction, but the SNAP sanction will remain due to the continuing disqualification of the 14year-old. SANCTIONS WHEN BOTH IMMUNIZATION AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE NONCOMPLIANCE ARE INVOLVED If there are noncompliant children for both immunization and school attendance requirements, all appropriate penalties will be applied to the TANF case. ∙ For cases with one or more children not meeting immunization requirements and one or more children ages 6 - 12 with unsatisfactory school attendance, the TANF case will be sanctioned 50% - 25% for immunization and 25% for school attendance.