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1000.9 VIEW AGREEMENT OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

A. The Agreement of Personal Responsibility (032-03-0310-07-eng) outlines the participant’s responsibility:

1. to seek employment to support her own family; 2. to participate in assignments made by the ESW; 3. to notify the ESW of any change in circumstances which would impact the participant's ability to satisfactorily participate in the program; 4. to notify the eligibility worker of changes as indicated on the Change Report form and the consequences for withholding or giving false information. 5. to accept a job offer. Refusal to accept a bona fide job offer will result in a full household sanction; 6. to arrange and find transportation and child care. The ESW will assist the participant when the participant has tried but has been unable to find transportation and child care.

Additionally, it provides notification to the client of the two-year time period for receipt of TANF benefits, and the enhanced disregards available to the participant if unsubsidized employment is obtained.

B. The participant and the ESW will sign a new Agreement of Personal Responsibility (APR) at the time of the initial assessment; at each subsequent referral following approval of a TANF reapplication; at re- referral following a period in which the individual was exempt; and when a former VIEW participant whose TANF case closed while she was subject to a VIEW sanction reapplies and subsequently returns to the VIEW program after the sanction has been lifted. (The sanction will not be lifted until the minimum fixed sanction period has been served and the individual has completed an act of compliance.) If the client refuses to sign the APR at the initial assessment, the worker must sign it and date it. The worker must note on the APR that the client refused to sign. The worker must also document the case record that the client refused to sign.

Examples of when a new APR must be signed: Example 1: At each reapplication for TANF. Client is approved for TANF effective 08/11/17 and is mandatory for VIEW participation. Client signs the APR 09/03/17 and remains on TANF as a VIEW participant until 03/31/18 when the TANF case is closed. Client reapplies for TANF and is approved effective 06/01/18. Client is again mandated to participate in VIEW and is referred. Client must sign a new APR. Failure to sign the APR will result in case closure.

Example 2: In a TANF UP household, each time one of the parents is referred.

TANF-UP case is approved effective 09/01/17 and the dad is mandatory for VIEW. The mom is exempt based on caring for a child under 12 months old. The dad signs the APR on 09/15/17 and eligibility continues. The child turns 12 months old on 12/23/17, and mom is referred to VIEW. She is required to sign an APR, but refuses. The TANF case will close.

Example 3: In an ongoing case, each time an individual cycles in and out of the VIEW program due to exemptions.

TANF is approved effective 03/01/17; client is mandatory for VIEW. The client signs the APR on 03/11/17. Client provides a medical on 06/04/17. (Medical exempts the client for 06/04/17 – 09/04/17). The EW will complete the Disability Details screen in VaCMS and the ESW will close the ESP enrollment.

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