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A-2160 Division of Welfare and Supportive Services PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PLAN Eligibility and Payments Manual Renegotiation and Amendment of the Personal 17 Mar 01 MTL 02/17 Responsibility Plan (PRP) ● Completes the tasks outlined on the prior PRP and the next steps toward self-sufficiency need to be established; ● Additional employment barriers/issues are identified; ● The planned work activities change; ● The participant becomes employed, changes employers, ceases to be employed; ● An individualized training contract is being established; ● Monitoring and verification requirements of work activities must be updated; ● The household’s circumstances change.

Amending the PRP is an ongoing case management process, which should be initiated no later than five business days after a qualifying change. Special circumstances requiring an exception to this time frame must be documented.

Staff must document the reasons a PRP is amended.

2170 NON-COMPLIANCE WITH TERMS OF THE PERSONAL

RESPONSIBILITY PLAN (PRP) Initial Personal Responsibility Plan

Participation in the initial development of the Personal Responsibility Plan (PRP) is an eligibility requirement.

TANF-NEON households who fail to cooperate in the development and completion of the PRP may be terminated from TANF using the NOMADS termination code T: Failure to cooperate with Work or Personal Responsibility Plan requirements, allowing for adverse action.

If the client is able to comply (establish a PRP) prior to the effective date of the case closure, assistance should be reinstated. When a client requests to reschedule their PRP appointment, they will be scheduled for the next available PRP appointment slot, if one is available prior to the closure date. If the client is unable to come into compliance prior to the date of closure (i.e., no PRP appointments are available before the effective date of closure) the household will need to reapply for assistance to regain eligibility for assistance.

Established Personal Responsibility Plan

Families who fail to cooperate with the terms of an established PRP or fail to attend an appointment scheduled to amend their existing PRP may be conciliated, unless they meet one of the exceptions in manual section B-933. Once the conciliation process has been initiated, the 3 month sit-out period will be imposed if the household does not comply within the conciliation period.