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Chapter 15 the reference table for Report Month Dates by Week is being removed. It can be found in the FI Manual Attachments: PATS Full Weeks Calendar.

Chapter 24.7.5 has been changed to add a new policy section, “RCA Benefits,” and the subsequent manual sections have been renumbered. This section explains how RCA benefits are calculated and also how to manually calculate the proration for the initial month. ____________________________________________________________________________ Volume 18 | 04.01.2009 ____________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8.16, a link to the section that indicates which teen parent(s) may file his/her own application is being added

Chapter 14.8, the last sentence has been removed, as distance education is no longer limited to 10 hours per week.

Chapter 27.2.8 and Chapter 27.2.9 are being revised to change “Responsibility Plan” to the ____________________________________________________________________________ Volume 19 | 05.01.2009 ____________________________________________________________________________ Manual Section 3.2A, the note has been removed and added to the section A. The section has been revised to state: “The parent may be the biological, legal, or adoptive parent.”

Manual Section 3.2C, the note has been changed to section D. The section has been revised to state: “Adoptive siblings and half-siblings of the dependent child that are required to be in the same BG. This does not include step-siblings when a caretaker relative applies for benefits.”

Manual Section 3.2, a link has been added to refer to section 3.6 (Multiple Households).

Manual Section 3.2.2, the note has been removed and the sentence added to the section.

Manual Section 3.2.4C, the participation code has been changed from “OU” to “SS”. The exception has been removed.

Manual Section 3.2.4D, the exception has been changed to read, “Child(ren) receiving SSI payments, Participation code=SS. A link has been added refer to 5.1.4 the caution in this section.

In Manual Section 3.2.4F, the link has been changed from 4.16 to 4.15.