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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 14
West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 31 Chapter 14 Work Requirements
Upon learning of his sanction status, Mr. Pine goes back to live with Nellie. Mr. Pine and Nellie each continue to have two assigned sanctions. Shortly after his return, Nellie fails to keep an appointment with a prospective employer. She tells the Case Manager that she wanted to stay home to be with the father of her children. The Case Manager determines that she did not have good cause and applies the third sanction. Mr. Pine immediately returns to his wife. This makes his wife and children ineligible when the third sanction was applied. Assigning WV WORKS Sanctions Example 4: A household consists of Mr. and Mrs. Green and their two children. Mr. Green was convicted of a drug felony and is not included in the WV WORKS benefit. Mrs. Green has incurred two previous WV WORKS sanctions. Because Mr. Green was convicted of a drug felony, he is considered a non-recipient Work-Eligible-Individual. Mr. Green is immediately assigned two WV WORKS sanctions previously incurred by Mrs. Green. Assigning WV WORKS Sanctions Example 5: Ms. Smith is a non-recipient Work-Eligible Individual because she is a parole violator. She fails to attend her assigned activity without good cause and a sanction is applied to the case. The case now has one sanction. • Sanctions applied to a case are never assigned to dependent children. Assigning WV WORKS Sanctions Example 6: Sam, one of Mr. and Mrs. Pine’s children, runs away to live with his grandmother. She applies for WV WORKS for Sam and herself and is approved. Because Sam is a dependent child, no sanctions are assigned to the new AG even though his previous AG has three sanctions. Assigning WV WORKS Sanctions Example 7: Mr. and Mrs. Oak had four children and are notified that a third sanction will be imposed, and the benefit amount will be reduced from $460 to $0. The WV WORKS amount counted for SNAP benefits is $460. The AG separates; Mr. and Mrs. Oak each will then have $230 of the WV WORKS benefit counted for the SNAP benefits in their separate AGs. If they reconcile before the end of the sanction period, $460 WV WORKS benefit will be counted for their SNAP benefit.