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TANF Transmittal 68

901.11 TANF MANUAL 7/20 Page 9b

901.11 PERIOD OF INELIGIBILITY

A. A VIEW participant, and all other adults and children in the assistance unit at the time of TANF case closure due to receipt of twenty-four months of assistance, is ineligible for TANF (including Diversionary Assistance) for a period of twenty-four months. The period of ineligibility (POI) begins with the effective date of TANF case closure. Individuals subject to the twenty-four- month VIEW period of ineligibility include:

1. A parent who is a VIEW participant;

2. A non-parent caretaker who is a VIEW participant. (Note: In no circumstance can the non- parent caretaker be removed from the assistance unit after the 60-day ANPA has been sent in order to create a child-only case for the purpose of avoiding imposition of the period of ineligibility);

3. Any other adult who is part of the VIEW participant’s assistance unit, including a second caretaker or a person considered essential to well-being (EWB);

4. An individual whose needs are not included on the payment due to a penalty but who otherwise is a required member of the assistance unit;

5. All children in the assistance unit. (See 305.4A(36) for treatment of income of a child who is ineligible for assistance as the result of a VIEW POI);

6. All natural or adoptive children of the participant who move into the participant's home during the period of ineligibility, even if the child did not receive TANF with the participant during VIEW participation or received assistance only for part of the time. The same child will no longer be subject to the POI if he/she subsequently leaves the participant’s home;

7. A baby who is born to the participant or to a minor caretaker who is part of the assistance unit during the period of ineligibility. (Note: See Exception (2) at 901.11A for child of a minor parent who applies in her own right after becoming 18); and,

The 24-month period of ineligibility status remains with any participating family member who moves out of the caretaker’s home during the period of ineligibility unless the individual meets one of the exceptions outlined in 901.11B.

The eligibility worker must inform the individual who applies for TANF for such children when the period of ineligibility expires.

Example 1: Ms. Smith's TANF case was closed effective January 2018, due to expiration of the period of eligibility while she was participating in the VIEW Program. Her son, Joe, who was an assistance unit member while Ms. Smith participated in the VIEW Program, moved to his grandparent's home in June 2018.

In that same month, Joe's grandmother filed an application for TANF, for herself and Joe. The application for TANF is denied because Joe was an assistance unit member during Ms. Smith’s VIEW participation in which the period of eligibility had expired. Joe will remain ineligible for receipt of