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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES DEFINITIONS

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Maintenance of Effort (MOE) for TANF funding. (The VIEW Transitional Payment is state-funded to meet the MOE obligation.) These programs must be for the purposes of:

a. assisting needy families;

b. promoting job preparation, work and marriage;

c. preventing or reducing out-of-wedlock pregnancies, provided the program imposes a 200 percent of poverty income guideline; or

d. promoting two-parent families, provided the program imposes a 200 percent of poverty income guideline.

A case that meets the criteria for broad-based categorical eligibility will be considered a categorically eligible case. The criteria for broad-based categorical eligibility consist of at least one person receiving or authorized to receive a TANF funded service, which benefits the entire household. This includes non-cash or in-kind service that is less than 50 percent funded with the TANF block grant or state funds counted for MOE purposes. The household’s income must be at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level and will not be subject to the resource asset test. With broad-based categorical eligibility, there is no requirement that there be minor children in the household.

A child removed from the TANF grant because of noncompliance with school attendance requirements continues to be a PA recipient, for SNAP purposes, as long as the TANF case status remains active.

Reapplication - Processed as an initial or new application, a reapplication is:

a. An application filed when more than a calendar month has elapsed after the last certification end date; or

b. An application that is filed after an adverse or negative action. An adverse or negative action is a denial of an application or termination of an ongoing case.

Recertification - The term recertification may refer to an application or the process of renewing eligibility and entitlement to benefits. A recertification application is an application filed before the certification end date or in the calendar month after the certification end date, provided the application does not follow an action to close the case.

Seasonal Farm Worker - An individual employed by another in agricultural work of a seasonal or other temporary nature. This includes employment on a farm or ranch performing fieldwork such as planting, cultivating or harvesting, or employment in related activities such as canning, packing, seed conditioning or related research, or processing operations.

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