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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES EXPEDITED SERVICES

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application date to provide the postponed verifications from the prior application regardless of how long it has been since the prior application. If the household does not provide verifications within the seven days, then the BPS must process the reapplication under normal processing guidelines.

The second application must have the same case name as the first expedited application for which the verifications were postponed. If the second application is filed in another locality, then the household may provide the postponed verification to either locality.

A household that requests expedited service but is not entitled to it must have the application processed under normal processing guidelines.

F. DESTITUTE MIGRANT OR SEASONAL FARMWORKER HOUSEHOLDS (7 CFR 273.10(e)(3))

Migrant or seasonal farmworker households may have little or no income at the time of application and may be in need of immediate food assistance, even though they receive income at some other time during the month of application. The BPS must use the following procedures to determine when households in these circumstances may be considered destitute and, therefore, entitled to expedited service and special income calculation procedures:

1. Households will be considered destitute and must be provided expedited service when the only income for the month of application was:

a. received prior to the date of application; and,

b. was from a terminated source.

For migrant workers, the grower, corporation or company is considered the source of income. The crew leader is not considered the source of income. A migrant who moves from one grower, corporation or company is considered to have moved from a terminated income source to a new source. A change of crops, unless it involves a change in growers, is not considered a new source of income.

If income is received on a monthly or more frequent basis, it is considered as coming from a terminated source if it will not be received again from the same source during the balance of the month of application or during the following month.

If income is normally received less often than monthly, however, the nonreceipt of income from the same source in the balance of the month of application or in the following month is inappropriate to use as a guideline to determine whether or not the income is terminated. For households that normally receive income less often than monthly, the income is considered as coming from a terminated source if it will not be received in the month in which the next payment would normally be received.

2. Households whose only income for the month of application is from a new source are considered destitute and must be provided expedited service if income of more than $25

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