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16 Benefits and services under this provision also include, but are not limited to, the process for determining eligibility for assistance under the State Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment. In FFY ’23 and following, the State will require local districts to screen, assess and refer potentially eligible applicants and recipients to prenatal and early childhood home visiting services, if appropriate and available. The assets test in paragraph 10, the disregard provisions in paragraph 11, and the standard of need provisions in Attachment E do not apply to eligible individuals who are not receiving a cash grant. Determination of income in establishing income eligibility for various services in this Plan will be based upon individual or family income, as appropriate. 28. The State will provide a fully refundable (amount paid back to the recipient) State Dependent Care Tax Credit to families eligible during the previous calendar year. Families eligible for TANF or State funded Dependent Care Tax Credit payments during a Federal fiscal year are those that included a child living with a parent or other adult relative (or a pregnant woman). For State funded payments, the definition of a needy family will be the definition used in the Dependent Care Tax Credit program and financial eligibility will be determined using the criteria used for financial eligibility for the Dependent Care Tax Credit program. 29. For FFY ’99 and following, the State may provide TANF funded or State funded benefits and services to eligible individuals and families whose incomes do not exceed 200% of the Federal Poverty Level unless otherwise provided in the program or unless they meet the eligibility definition outlined in 45 CFR 263.2(a)(4)(ii), to prevent or reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancy; and to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. The services will be targeted to youth under 25 years of age and other individuals at risk of out-of-wedlock births or single parenthood, and non-custodial parents. Such services may include vocational and educational counseling, job skills training, family life and parenting education, life skills development, case management, pre-pregnancy family planning services, social and recreational programs, programs to provide supervised activities for elementary, middle and high school students during the hours school is not in session, outreach, advocacy, youth development activities and crisis intervention services. If such benefits and services are provided either as a TANF program or as a separate State program, they will be provided only to needy families. The assets test in paragraph 10, the disregard provisions in paragraph 11, and the standard of need provisions in Attachment E do not apply to eligible individuals who are not receiving a cash grant. 30. The State may provide TANF funded or State funded benefits and services, either as a TANF program or as a separate State program, to eligible individuals and families whose incomes do not exceed 200% of the Federal Poverty Level or, are eligible to receive benefits and services under the HEAP or the New York State CCDBG. Such benefits and services may include, but shall not be limited to, providing transitional work support payments to those families that voluntarily close their public assistance case, and/or work-related items of need (such as clothing, transportation and other expenses related to work). The transitional work support payments can be an amount up to a maximum of $200 per month and can be received for up to 24 months in a lifetime, if otherwise eligible.