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o Minor parents not living in an adult-supervised setting; o Minor children who are absent from the home for a significant period (30 days or more). NOTE: A relative who fails to report the absence of a child within five days will be disqualified; o Fleeing felons and parole violators; and o Ineligible aliens b. Mississippi will also deny TANF assistance to families if the adult(s), age 18 or older, included in the assistance unit fails to engage in TANF applicant job search activities, fails to comply with the Employability Development Plan signed by the individual, fails to cooperate with the TWP, fails to participate satisfactorily in the assigned work activity, or after receiving TANF assistance for twenty-four (24) months, whichever is earlier. c. Mississippi will deny TANF assistance to families if the adult(s), age 18 or older, included in the assistance unit fails to submit to a written substance abuse screening questionnaire. d. Mississippi shall deny TANF assistance to a convicted fleeing felon. e. Mississippi will also deny assistance for ten years to an individual convicted in Federal or State court of having made a fraudulent statement or representation, with respect to the individual’s place of residence in order to receive TANF assistance simultaneously from two or more states. f. Recipients of SSI are excluded from the TANF assistance Unit. g. In accordance with agency policy, adults and minor children who fail to comply with enumeration requirements will be excluded from the TANF assistance unit.

Mississippi will coordinate services, where available, with public and private entities (i.e., Mississippi Departments of Rehabilitation Services, Employment Security and Mental Health, and the Mississippi Community College Board, etc.) to allow TANF families with barriers (i.e., little or no work experience, domestic violence, limited English proficiency, learning disabilities, mental, physical disabilities and/or substance abuse) an opportunity to gain access to services and resources needed to obtain the highest level of self-sufficiency within the constraints of the TANF time-limits. Special screening and referral procedures will be used to identify and refer the individual for the appropriate service. Mississippi will deny benefits to individuals who fail to comply with the activities provided by these entities. Mississippi will not deny assistance to a minor parent with a child under the age of 12 weeks for failure to attend school but will permit the minor parent to voluntarily participate in educational activities as medically appropriate. Mississippi will deny benefits to all adult TANF applicants who do not meet an exemption from work requirements and fail to comply with TANF Work Registration requirements or vocational rehabilitation activities during the 30-day TANF application processing period. Mississippi will deny benefits to all adult TANF applicants age 18 and older who fail to submit to a written drug screening questionnaire. State law provides for an individual sanction of TANF until compliance for an adult recipient age 18 or older who fails, without good cause, to submit to a required drug test or declines to enter into required treatment for a substance abuse disorder or fails to meet the requirements of his/her treatment plan, including refusal to take or testing positive to a required drug test.