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Self-Employment Employment earned directly from one’s own business, trade or profession rather than from a salary or wage paid by an employer.
Self-Employment Income Income earned directly from one's own business, trade or profession.
Severance Pay
A lump sum payment received by an individual upon termination of employment.
Social Security Administration (SSA) A U.S. Federal Government Agency that assigns Social Security numbers and administers Social Security retirement, survivors, and disability insurance programs.
Specified Relative
Individual related to a dependent child within the degree required to receive TANF benefits.
Sponsor
Any person, or public/private agency or organization that executed an affidavit(s) of support or similar agreement on behalf of a non-citizen (who is not the child of the sponsor or the sponsor's spouse) as a condition of the non-citizen’s entry into the U.S.
Spouse
An individual who is legally married to another individual.
State Office The central office of the South Carolina Department of Social Services.
State Time Limit TANF benefits that are limited to no more than twenty-four months in a one hundred twenty-month period for benefit groups containing adult parent/caretaker relatives who are receiving benefits for themselves and minor children.
Stepparent A person living in the home who is ceremonially married to the parent of the children in the TANF benefit group.
Striker Anyone involved in a strike or concerted work stoppage by employees (including a stoppage by reason of the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement) and any concerted slowdown or other concerted interruption of operations by employees.
Subpoena A written order to compel an individual/witness to give testimony on a particular subject.