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income (no child support amounts passed-through will be included in the budget). However, when an individual in an active TANF case does not cooperate, or changes occur in an active case, process as indicated below.

1. When the payee refuses to cooperate in turning the support payments over to the agency and continues to keep the payments, the TANF case will be closed. The TANF Federal and State laws strengthen Child Support Enforcement requirements, effective July 1, 1997. TANF assistance will be terminated for the family who fails without good cause to cooperate with Child Support Enforcement activities to establish paternity and to obtain support. If the TANF case is closed because of failure without good cause to cooperate with the Division of Child Support Enforcement, the family will not be approved for TANF. 2. again until child support compliance is verified, the family becomes exempt for good cause or the family is no longer subject to the child support requirement that caused the sanction. 3. When a change occurs in a group receiving support, the worker will initiate action in the system to: a. Compute a trial budget and compare the current countable child support and other income received in the budget month with the gross and 100% need standards for that budget month. If a deficit results in the 100% budget, no further steps are necessary. But, if there is no deficit in the 100% budget and the needs are met, the TANF benefit should be terminated for the next possible month. a. Follow normal procedures for sending advance notices and authorizing closures or changes on cases that will remain active. And, in addition, the worker must: b. Notify county Child Support staff of the effective date of any closures and of any changes on cases remaining active. See Chapter 3, Notifications, for changes which should be reported. NOTE: The MAVS/METSS interface will handle this notification

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