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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 14

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 30 Chapter 14 Work Requirements

The following information is used to determine the number of sanctions when the sanctioned WV WORKS case separates into two or more cases, or when one or more household members leave the case. • Each adult and emancipated minor included in the same WV WORKS AG, and each non-recipient Work-Eligible Individual, is assigned one sanction for each time the case is sanctioned. Sanctions are not assigned to children. Assigning WV WORKS Sanctions Example 1: Mr. and Mrs. Pine receive WV WORKS for themselves and their two children. Mr. Pine refused an offer of employment without good cause and a sanction is applied to the case. The case has one sanction; therefore, Mr. Pine is assigned one sanction and Mrs. Pine is assigned one sanction. • When an adult or emancipated minor leaves the home, he takes his assigned sanctions with him. Those adults and emancipated minors remaining in the home retain their assigned sanctions. Assigning WV WORKS Sanctions Example 2: Continuation of the previous example. After application of the sanction, Mr. Pine leaves the home. Mrs. Pine is the only adult remaining in the AG. She carries the sanction that was assigned to her when Mr. Pine refused a job, so the sanction continues. • When a Work-Eligible adult or emancipated minor leaves the home of one WV WORKS case and joins another one, all members of the new AG and any non-recipient Work- Eligible Individuals are assigned the same number of sanctions. This number is determined by assigning each adult/emancipated minor the highest number of sanctions assigned to any one of the adults/emancipated minors in the new AG or any non- recipient Work-Eligible Individuals. Assigning WV WORKS Sanctions Example 3: Continuation of previous example. When Mr. Pine leaves Mrs. Pine, he moves in with a former fiancée, Nellie. Mr. Pine is the father of two of Nellie’s children. Nellie and her three children are WV WORKS clients. Nellie previously failed, without good cause, to cooperate with the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement (BCSE) in obtaining support for her third child. In addition, she failed, without good cause to continue her Community Work Experience Program (CWEP) placement. Nellie’s case has been sanctioned twice. When Mr. Pine joins her AG, he is assigned two sanctions, since Nellie has the higher number of sanctions. After six months, Mr. Pine decides to return to his wife. When he leaves, Nellie continues to have two sanctions. When Mr. Pine returns to his wife, he now has two sanctions that were assigned to him from Nellie’s case. Therefore, the case which includes Mr. and Mrs. Pine now has been assigned two sanctions. The next offense by Mr. or Mrs. Pine results in application of the third sanction.