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B. Vendor Payment - The provider of goods and/or services.

502.5 ISSUANCE OF PAYMENT

A. Issuance Date -

1. The Monthly Money Payment - If the effective date is either the date of application or the first of the month following the month of application, payments should be authorized at the time of approval. VACMS will begin the process to issue the payment on the same business day the payments are authorized in VACMS. (Check payments will be mailed by the third business day following this action. Electronic payments will be deposited to the individual’s account on the next business day.) Subsequent ongoing monthly payments will be issued on the first of the month to cover the needs for that month.

2. Supplemental Payment - A supplemental payment is defined as a payment given in addition to the pre-authorized assistance payment as a result of a change in circumstances which increases need for a specific month.

Supplemental payments are to be issued immediately using an effective date of the first of the month for which the payment is being issued.

3. Support Disregard Payments are issued to the custodial parent (CP) by the VACMS system based on support collection information received from the DCSE automated system, APECS. These payments are issued the week after the NCP pays the support when:

• the non-custodial parent (NCP) is obligated to pay at least $100 per month in child and/or spousal support and the NCP has paid at least $100 in current child support or child and spousal support during the month. • the NCP is obligated to pay less than $100 per month in child and/or spousal support during the month and the NCP has paid the obligated amount of current child and/or spousal support for the month.

Support Disregard Payments are issued to the CP on the first day of the following month when the NCP is obligated to pay at least $100 per month in child and/or spousal support and the NCP has not paid at least $100 during the month. Note: If the NCP has not paid any support during the month, no disregard payment will be issued.

Support disregard payments that have to be reissued require the EW to cancel the payment in VaCMS then the DCSE worker to complete a manual adjustment in APECS. After action is completed by the EW and the DCSE workers, the replacement payment will be issued by VaCMS as part of an automated process.

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