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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 1

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 101 Chapter 1 Application/Redetermination Process

Eligibility Date Example 1: A WV WORKS adult recipient marries an individual who quit a job in the 30-day period prior to the request to add him to the AG. There is no 45-day period of ineligibility in adding him and no sanction is applied because this did not occur at application. Once an AG is a recipient of WV WORKS, the 45-day ineligibility period will not apply to any active WV WORKS case through the month of closure. Any of the three situations described above are sanctionable offenses in an active WV WORKS case. When an AG meets all of the following criteria, it is considered a violation and they are not subject to the 45-day ineligibility period. Instead, the AG or non-recipient Work-Eligible Individual is reopened, and a sanction subsequently applied. See Chapter 14 for details about applying a sanction. • The AG was closed due to earnings of a parent, a non-recipient Work- Eligible Individual, or a non-parent caretaker included in the payment and he later quits his job without good cause; and • The quit occurs within the effective month of closure; and • The parent, non-recipient Work-Eligible Individual or non-parent caretaker, reapplies for a monthly WV WORKS check during the effective month of closure. Because the case is considered to be open until the last day of the effective month of closure, the violation is treated as non-compliance and a sanction is imposed. If another sanction(s) has been previously imposed, this sanction is imposed at the next highest level. The AG is approved for the month following the effective month of closure and then is notified of the imposition of the sanction at the next level. As with any other WV WORKS case, the individual must be provided an opportunity to establish good cause and/or comply during the 13- day advance notice period prior to imposition of the sanction. Eligibility Date Example 2: A parent is placed in full-time employment on March 5. His anticipated earnings make him ineligible and the AG is closed on March 7, effective March. On March 22, the parent comes to the office to ask for WV WORKS benefits again and states that he quit his job on March 19. The Worker determines that he did not have good cause for quitting, but that he met all other eligibility requirements. His eligibility starts April 1 since he already received benefits for March. There is no sanction applied to the April benefits for this offense, but the Worker notifies him immediately about the imposition of a sanction beginning in May and schedules a good cause hearing. Eligibility Date Example 3: A parent is placed in full-time employment with a produce shipping company. Two months later, he is laid off. The 45-day waiting period does not apply.