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DEPARTMENT FOR AGING AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES AUXILIARY GRANT PROGRAM NON-SSI RESOURCE ELIGIBILITY 11/18 CHAPTER E PAGE 26 10.12. Individual Making Reasonable Efforts If it is decided that the individual is making continuing reasonable efforts to sell, document the case and set a special review for the next follow-up contact. 10.13. Individual Not Making Reasonable Efforts • Investigate Good Cause - If it is judged the individual is not making continuing reasonable efforts to sell: o Record the individual's allegations as to why; o Obtain any evidence the individual has to support allegations of good cause; and o Verify with a third party allegations the individual cannot support with evidence. • Make Good Cause Determination - Make a good cause determination. o Good Cause Exists - continue eligibility; or o Good Cause Does Not Exist - If it is determined that the individual is not making reasonable efforts to sell and there is no evidence to establish both that the individual cannot pursue reasonable efforts to sell the property on his/her own and cannot make arrangements for someone else to act on his/ her behalf:  Terminate AG eligibility effective with the month following the month in which reasonable efforts cease.  Determine the amount of the conditional benefits overpayment. See Chapter F – 12.

11. Undue Hardship Exclusion - Real Property The value of an individual's ownership interest in jointly owned real property is an excluded resource for as long as sale of the property would cause undue hardship, due to loss of housing, to a co-owner. 11.1. Undue Hardship Undue hardship would result if such co-owner: