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NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance- TA and SNAP Employment Policy Manual

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Rev. 4/2025 items, and general incidental expenses). The term “assistance” also generally includes supportive services, such as transportation provided to families who are not employed. The term “assistance” does not include nonrecurrent, short term benefits that are designed to deal with a specific crisis situation or episode of need; are not intended to meet recurrent or ongoing needs; and, will not extend beyond four months. There are six types of employment-related supportive service payment types: 1.) Upstate WMS payment type R7-Transportation: Includes bus tokens/passes, gas card, mileage reimbursement, vehicle insurance, vehicle repair, driver’s license fees and vehicle registration and are available to Family Assistance (FA), Safety Net Assistance (SNA) Maintenance of Effort (MOE), and SNA non-MOE applicants and recipients; 2.) Upstate WMS payment type R9- Employment and Training Essential Needs: Includes work related clothing expenses, license fees, and tools needed to complete job assignments and are available to FA, SNA MOE, and SNA non-MOE applicants and recipients. This supportive service payment does not include assistance payments, fines or penalties; 3.) Upstate WMS payment type T2 – Extended Supportive Services: Includes transportation employment related expenses for FA, SNA MOE, and SNA non-MOE recipients whose case closed due to employment for up to 90 days. Also, this includes payments made for two-parent families that are subject to the federal Two-Parent rate (where neither parent is disabled) and assigned a WMS parent indicator of “2” (06-LCM-09); 4.) Upstate WMS payment Type T3 – Training Tuitions and Fees: Includes tuition or other training related expenses necessary to participate in employment related training, (when not otherwise available) and are available to FA, SNA MOE, and SNA MOE individual applicants and recipients; 5.) Dependent Care Upstate WMS payment type varies based on type of care and services/non-services case. This supportive service is distributed based on the following: a.) Guaranteed to TA applicants or recipients, with a child under 13 years of age, if required to participate in an approved work or other required activity including working individuals who receive “in-lieu of TA” and sanctioned TA recipients who are assigned to activities to demonstrate compliance. Also, included under the guarantee are families whose case closed due to income who received TA in three out of the six months preceding the month of closing and have income up to 200% of the applicable State income standard for up to 12 months after the month of TA case closing; b.) Child care funds are available but not guaranteed for the following: • TA applicant/recipient with an eligible child 13 years old or older who has special needs or is under court supervision to allow for parent to participate in work or other required activities; • Teen parent to attend HS or equivalent;