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Note: When the client has received 58 months of TANF, VaCMS will automatically generate a 60- month TANF Lifetime Limit letter to the client and a copy will be retained in the forms history within VaCMS. The letter will notify the client that she is approaching her lifetime limit for the receipt of TANF benefits.

Example 1: Client moved to Virginia 7/10/00 and subsequently applied for TANF. She indicated receipt of TANF in North Carolina approximately six months prior to this application. EW contacts the local agency in North Carolina and verifies that client received TANF there from February 1999 through January 2000. The EW will add February 1999 through January 2000 to the 60-month clock because these months are on the client’s federal 60-month clock in that state.

Example 2: Client is participating in VIEW and her clock has run from April 2007 through July 2008. On July 8, 2008 the VIEW worker placed the client in an Inactive status. The ESW places the client back in an active status on August 22, 2008. July will count as a month on her 24-month and 60-month clocks. August will not count on the 24-month clock because of the inactive status on the first of the month. August will count on the 60-month clock because the client received a TANF payment for the month. The 24-month clock count will resume with the month of September.

Example 3: Client and her three children received 60 months of TANF, with the March 1, 2017 payment. The TANF case was closed effective March 31, 2017. On April 12, 2017 the client was incarcerated and her three children moved in the grandmother’s household. The grandmother applied for TANF for the three children on May 1, 2017. The TANF application was approved on May 29, 2017. Note: If all eligibility criteria are met for the children to continue assistance beyond the 60-month limit, the case will be approved. The POI information will be stored for each child in a non-financial table under their individual VaCMS client ID number that is not viewable to the worker. The children are eligible because they now live with an adult who is not included in the payment and does not have a 60- month clock. In January, 2018, the grandmother becomes financially needy and requests to be added to the AU. When she is added to the AU, she will become subject to a 60-month clock.

Continuing the same scenario above, the client was released from jail on March 1, 2018. She applied for TANF for herself and three children on March 10, 2018. The grandmother’s case closed on March 31, 2018 because the children no longer resided with her. On April 2, 2018, the client’s TANF application was denied due to exhaustion of the 60-month clock for herself and three children. Note: When eligibility was determined, VaCMS automatically applied the POI information stored within the VaCMS non-financial tables for the client and her children.

Example 4: Client and her two children have 60 months on her 60-month clock as the result of federal clock months from another state and/or months in Virginia. As long as the children remain in the home with this client, this family of three have reached their lifetime limit of TANF and will not be eligible again unless the client becomes totally disabled or becomes needed on a substantially continuous basis to care for a disabled family member who is living in the household.

Example 5: The children in example #4 leave the client’s home and go to live with their father. The father has been a TANF recipient but has less than 60-months on his clock. The father and children can receive TANF until he has reached his 60-month time limit.

Note: If all eligibility criteria are met for the children to continue assistance beyond the 60-month limit, the case will be approved. The POI information will be stored for each child in a non- financial table under his individual VaCMS client ID number that is not viewable to the worker.

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