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______________________________________________________________________________ Volume 56 | October 1, 2021(Cont’d) ______________________________________________________________________________ verbiage has been added to specify that the identity of the applicant and the student status of the dependent children must be verified.

3.2(4)G Required BG Members (Prohibited BG Members): This section has been updated to add a note to include children receiving kinship care payments.

3.9(4)D Sanctioned Other than Work Requirements: This section has been updated to change “Caretaker relative” to “A natural or adoptive parent.”

4.14 Fleeing Felons and Probation/Parole Violators: This section has been updated throughout to reflect the name change of the Fugitive Information Offender Surveillance (FIOS) Central Office to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).

6.7 Treatment of Liquid Resources (Child Tax Credit Payment): This section has been updated to include Child Tax Credit Payment and to clarify that payments received as advance child tax credits are excluded as a resource for a period of 12 months from receipt date.

6.9 (3) Treatment of Vehicles (Determining Fair Market Value): This section has been updated to specify that equivalent publications may be used in lieu of NADA.

7.6 State Directory of New Hires: This section has been updated to reflect the current information identified in CHIP.

7.7 Sources of Income (Child Tax Credit Payment): This section has been updated to include Child Tax Credit Payment and to clarify that payments received as advance child tax credits are excluded as income.

8.15 Need Standard Table: This section has been updated to provide the current gross income limit, need and payment standards for TANF, effective October 2021.

11.2(1) Electronic Benefit Issue (ePay Debit Cards): This section has been updated to include protective payees who have been removed from CHIP.

24.1 Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA): This section has been updated to reflect the change of the agency’s website for online applications from http://scmapp.sc.gov to https://benefitsportal.dss.sc.gov.

24.4(3) RCA/TANF Relationship (RCA Payment Level): This section has been updated to provide the RCA Payments, effective October 2021.

Section 8.4(3), Added Individual Treated as an Applicant (Technical Factors), has been removed to reflect current policy.