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FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES CERTIFICATION SNAP AND TFNS BENEFITS TRANSITIONAL FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES BENEFITS
1 Section 650 Change #4-2021 June 15, 2021 FNS 650 TRANSITIONAL FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES BENEFITS Change #4-2021 June 15, 2021
650.01 TRANSITIONAL AND NUTRITION SERVICES BENEFITS Transitional Food and Nutrition Services (TFNS) benefits are five months of extended Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) benefits for families who become ineligible to receive Work First Family Assistance (WFFA). Most FNS units are eligible to receive TFNS benefits for a period of five months when WFFA terminates, including open/shut cases. A face-to-face recertification must be done with each TFNS unit during the last month of the certification period. A TFNS unit cannot be recertified as a TFNS case during this time.
650.02 TRANSITIONAL FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES BENEFITS ELIGIBILITY A. There are only a few situations in which a household cannot receive TFNS. Those situations are as follows: 1. The FNS unit contains a member who is currently disqualified from the Food and Nutrition Services Program and/or WFFA; or 2. The FNS unit loses WFFA for any of the following reasons: a. The WFFA case closes due to the following sanctions: Failure to cooperate with Child Support Enforcement and Non-compliance with the provisions of the Mutual Responsibility Agreement (MRA); or b. The WFFA Unit moves out of North Carolina; or c. The FNS unit was receiving more than one WFFA payment prior to the WFFA termination and at least one WFFA payment is still being received. 3. The FNS unit is over the Food and Nutrition Services gross income limits due to the loss of categorically eligible status; or 4. The WFFA case is approved as a Benefit Diversion case.