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360 Project Area The county or similar political subdivision designated by the State as the administrative unit for program operations. Upon prior FNS approval, a city, Indian reservation, welfare district, or any other entity with clearly defined geographic boundaries, or any combination of such entities, may be designated as a project area, or the State as a whole may be designated as a single project area. Prospective Eligibility The use of anticipated and/or actual income and circumstances to determine eligibility for the benefit month. Public Assistance (PA) Any of the following programs authorized by the Social Security Act of 1935, as amended: Old-age assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), including TANF for children of unemployed fathers, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled and aid to aged, blind or disabled. QC Review Date The “review date” for active cases is a day within the sample month, either the first day of the calendar or fiscal month or the day a certification action was taken to authorize the allotment, whichever is later. The “review date” for negative cases, depending on the characteristics of individual State systems, could be the date on which the eligibility worker makes the decision to suspend, deny, or terminate the case, the date on which the decision is entered into the computer system, the date of the notice to the client or the date the negative action becomes effective. For no case is the “review date” the day the quality control review is conducted. QC Review Period The 12-month period from October 1 of each calendar year through September 30 of the following calendar year. Qualified Non-Citizen Legal Permanent Resident (LPR): non-citizen granted conditional entry (per law in effect prior to April 1, 1980); Cuban/Haitian entrant; non- citizens in the U.S. who have been abused, subject to battery or extreme cruelty by a spouse or other family/household member, or have been a victim of a severe form of human trafficking; non- citizens whose children have been abused and non-citizen children whose parent has been abused who fit certain criteria.