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Appendix B- Page 32 Rev. 3/2022 Addition of an ABAWD Grace Period

To add a month as a part of an ABAWD grace period, the worker will first have to determine if there is an ABAWD reestablish date on the WTRK43 screen. If the ABAWD Reestablish Date field is blank, the worker will be unable to add a grace period until an ABAWD reestablish date has been added to the WTRK43 screen (for additional information, see the section Manual Addition of an ABAWD Reestablish Date). If an ABAWD reestablish date is present, the worker will need to determine if there is an active countable AB record for the calendar month that should be overridden. For example, if the worker needs to modify the record for October 2019 to report the month as a grace period month, an AB record must be present for that month before the override transaction can be completed (see Fig. 20).

Fig. 20 WTRK43 screen before the addition of a grace period month

If there is no active countable AB record on the WTRK43 screen for that month the worker must add a countable AB record for the month using the entry line located at the bottom of the WTRK43 screen (for additional information, see the section Addition of a Trackable Month to the ABAWD Counter). After creating a countable AB record for the month to be reported as a grace period month, the worker should enter the code ‘G’ in the RSN field of that record and press Enter to transmit. This will convert the countable AB record to an AG record and designate the month as a grace period month. For example, if the worker needs to override the AB record associated with October 2019 and replace it with an AG record to designate October as a grace period month, the code ‘G’ should be entered in the RSN field associated with the 10/19 AB record (see Fig. 21).