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MISSISSIPPI [ CONCILIATION, GOOD CAUSE AND

treatment. NOTE: Minor heads of households will be treated as adults for this policy. ADVERSE ACTION: GOOD CAUSE] The substance abuse treatment period is countable in the 60-month time limit but is not countable in the 24-month time limit. At any time after application, reevaluation, or at the time the participants job status changes from exempt to mandatory (NE) or exempt volunteer (EV), the participant states that he/she has a substance abuse problem which would prevent job placement, employment retention or participation in any TWP activity, the case manager will send the notice of adverse action for a TWP sanction. If the participant has been referred to a JRT/EC, the MDHS-TWP-364, and supporting documentation must be provided to the case manager within three (3) working days. Upon receipt of this report, the case manager must initiate the TWP sanctioning process. ∙ The case manager will add a conciliation record in JAWS using “DA - drug abuse,” as the conciliation reason ∙ JAWS will send the conciliation transaction to MAVERICS. JAWS will not send an appointment notice to the client ∙ Upon receipt of the conciliation referral from JAWS, MAVERICS will process the record and send a TANF case closure notice and a SNAP adverse action notice to the client Good cause cannot be granted for this reason because of the previous opportunities given to claim this exemption and obtain treatment. If the conciliation reason is “DA,” JAWS will not allow the case manager to resolve the conciliation record or request an exemption (for any reason). If the conciliation record was added in error, the supervisor may resolve the record by using “ER” (the conciliation was added in error) or “CN” (cancel the conciliation because the record did not process or the sanction was removed in MAVERICS). The fair hearing process will be treated the same as the other fair hearing requests that are referred to MAVERICS. An individual who has served his/her sanction period and is not seeking an exemption will be pulled to JAWS in a “Re - received” status. Regular Up Front Job Search policy and procedures for compliance will be followed (see Chapter 8, TWP Referrals - Received Status Referrals). Refer to Chapter 3, Drug Treatment, for the eligibility criteria and the policy and procedures for handling substance abuse exemption request. ADVERSE ACTION: GOOD CAUSE]