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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 18

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 5 Chapter 18 WV WORKS Activities/Requirements

NOTE: Although an SSI parent is not included in the AG, the child(ren) is ineligible for child- only WV WORKS benefits if the parent(s) received 60 months of TANF benefits. turned 18. She opts to be included in the check with her grandchild and may receive a check for up to 23 months.

Receipt of any of the following benefits counts as one month toward the 60-month limit when an adult or emancipated minor is included in the AG. • TANF check from West Virginia or from any state that used TANF block grant money for the payment. See Appendix C of Chapter 1 for a list of states and when they converted to TANF. • WV WORKS cash assistance when the benefit is funded by federal TANF/MOE funds or by a West Virginia Solely State Funded (SSF) Program. • Cash assistance from the transitional benefit option of the West Virginia Employment Assistance Program (EAP). The limit is not 60 months for each state of residence. The time limit applies to all benefits received throughout the United States and its territories as long as the benefits were received under the TANF Block Grant. Therefore, when a participant indicates he has been a resident of another state, the Case Manager must determine if he received cash assistance and, if so, if the program was funded under the Block Grant authorized by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). States had until July 1997 to convert from the former Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Program to a program funded under EXCEPTION: Any month during which the adult lived on an Indian reservation or in an Alaskan Native village is not counted toward the 60-month limit if: • At least 1,000 individuals were living on the reservation or in the village; and • At least 50% of the adults living there were unemployed. EXCEPTION: When a TANF, WV WORKS or EAP check was received ineligibly, and is repaid in full, that month does not count toward the 60-month limit. The WV WORKS benefit cannot be repaid or returned to the Department unless the AG was ineligible.