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The eligibility staff member must determine if the ABAWD meets an individual time limit exemption at each point of contact.

STATUS CHANGE: The eligibility staff member must evaluate an individual’s work registration, E&T and ABAWD exemptions at Simplified Report and Recertification. Recalculate ABAWD months if necessary. PARTICIPANTS WHO GAIN AN EXEMPTION DURING A CERTIFICATION PERIOD: If an ABAWD exemption is discovered during the certification period that was NOT required to be reported, we must determine if we need to apply an ABAWD exemption retroactively. If the gained exemption requires verification, we must pend for that information. When verified, we will remove the ABAWD months retroactively. If the exemption does not require verification (unless questionable) the ABAWD months will be removed upon notification. Note: All reported information should be filtered through the unclear information flowchart. (PAUG Business Processes) When the exemption is verified or does not require verification, the exemption should be added for the month the client gained the exemption. It does not matter if the month the exemption is gained is a full month. Example: Participant reported exemption on October 16, and the client is currently in their 2nd ABAWD month. We verify that the client gained the exemption in September. We would remove September and October ABAWD months and update the ABAWD exemption in CHIMES.

PARTICIPANTS WHO LOSE AN EXEMPTION DURING A CERTIFICATION PERIOD: If during the certification period we receive information that indicates a household member no longer meets an exemption, we must follow unclear information policy. For example, if we have not screened the household member for other exemptions, the impact of no longer meeting a specific exemption may not be clear. If it is unclear whether the household member meets another exemption, we must not act on the information and must not subject the household member to the ABAWD time limit until the household’s next certification action or simplified report. Note: If the change was required to be reported based on their reporting requirements, verify the change and screen for another ABAWD exemption. If there is no other ABAWD