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When an appropriate adult-supervised supportive living arrangement is located, the minor parent and child shall be required to live there to continue receiving TANF. The worker must give the minor parent 30 days advance notice to move. If the minor parent fails or refuses to move to the adult-supervised living arrangement in the 30 day time period, the worker must close the case.

Example: Maybelle is a teen parent who moved in with her grandmother after her parents died. When Maybelle's grandmother died, she did not know where any other relatives lived, and now lives alone with her child. The agency approved the case for TANF and began the search to locate an adult-supervised living arrangement.

3. Protective Payment - When a minor parent and her dependent child are required to live with the minor parent's parent or person standing in loco parentis, then TANF must be paid in the form of a protective payment to the parent or person standing in loco parentis (See 502.7). The worker should select the name of the protective payee from the TANF Benefit Recipient drop-down on the SNAP/TANF Case Level – Details screen in VaCMS.

201.6 RESIDENCE - Federal regulations* require that a child be considered a resident of the state in which he is living, other than on a temporary basis, regardless of the reason for which he entered the state or the residence of his parents. A caretaker is a resident of the state in which he is living even though he may be homeless or may have entered the state seeking employment or with a job commitment as long as he, or the child, is not receiving assistance from another state. Temporary absence from the state, with subsequent return to the state or intent to return does not affect eligibility.

Residence must be verified except in unusual cases, such as homeless assistance units, migrant farm worker assistance units or assistance units newly arrived in a locality, where verification of residence cannot reasonably be accomplished. In the case of an applicant/recipient who is participating in the Address Confidentiality Program (as referenced in Broadcast 6976 dated June 22, 2011), residency is established by the applicant/recipient’s verbal statement that the family is residing in the locality where they have applied or are currently receiving assistance. The Office of the Attorney General will issue an Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) authorization card to each participant in the program. The card will have the participant’s unique ACP authorization code on it (PMB#). The card will be used by the LDSS agency to verify participation in the ACP. If the LDSS has questions about the participant’s status in the ACP or legal documents need to be served to the participant, the ACP Coordinator at the Office of the Attorney General should be contacted.

The actual physical address of the applicant/recipient must not be entered into any of the department’s automated systems. The mailing address for the ACP (PO Box 1133, Richmond, Virginia, 23218-1133) should be used.

* 45 CFR 233.40

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