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3. Supervisory Review A supervisory review must be conducted on all assessments completed. Any questions or concerns should be resolved through a case staffing, if necessary, prior to completion of the FI Time Limit Closure Follow-Up Assessment, DSS Form 3764.
4. Communication With HS A copy of the completed DSS Form 3764 shall be forwarded to the HS worker on all open HS cases.
5. Retention of Forms Upon completion of the Time Limit Closure Follow-Up Assessment, the DSS Form 3764 will be scanned into the SCOSA case record.
18.16 Reapplication after 10-year time Period Family Independence Act limits certain BGs (those not meeting the State time limit exception criteria) receiving benefits from the TANF Program to 24 months in a 10-year period, beginning in October 1996. In order to determine if a family is eligible to reapply at the end of the 10 year period, the ES Worker must count backwards from the current month in considering the 10 year period. If the BG has already received 24 months of benefits in the previous 119 months, the family is not eligible for benefits in the current (120th) month.
The first potential month of eligibility will be shown on CHIP CAP2 screen for cases that are in a closed status with a TL (time limit) closure code.
1. Federal 60-Month Time Limit TANF limits the number of months assistance is paid out of TANF funds to any BG which contains an adult to 60 months in a lifetime. This is a nationwide time limit, which began on October 1, 1996.
2. TANF Assistance TANF assistance includes any month for which:
A. A TANF benefit was received B. A family cap voucher was received C. A Work Experience Training Allowance is received D. Other forms of benefits (from a TANF funded agency) designed to meet a family's ongoing needs are received E. Support Services to an unemployed family is received.
18.17 Federal Time Limit The following list details issues concerning the federal time limit: A. Child only cases are the primary exception to the TANF time limit.