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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 18

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 171 Chapter 18 WV WORKS Activities/Requirements

TRANSITIONAL BENEFIT Period Example 2: An AG is closed effective May 30 due to the receipt of a lump sum payment. At the time of closure, it is determined that the family will remain ineligible for WV WORKS through September. The family has already spent all of the lump sum payment by the end of June. The parents reapply for WV WORKS in June and are denied. In July, the mother and father both begin working part-time. They both request support services in July to help with transportation. Neither is eligible because the family remains in a period of ineligibility due to receipt of the lump sum payment. They ask for assistance again in August and September and remain ineligible for support services. In October, they again request assistance, although their period of WV WORKS ineligibility is over, they are ineligible to receive support payments because they do not meet the eligibility requirements since closure reason was not due to employment. For participants who choose the Employment Assistance option, the EAP payments must be stopped before adverse action in the final month so that no payment is issued for the next month. Advance notice requirements apply. The Case Manager must update the eligibility system. EAP repayment is completed by following IMM 11.3.

Although the participant must actually request support services and apply for a support payment prior to the issuance of the payment, it is the Case Manager’s responsibility to ensure that the participant is aware he is eligible for continued support service payments and inform the participant of the services available. The Case Manager must note in the eligibility system that the individual has opted to receive support service payments and place the DFA-WVW-15 into the case record. The decision is binding for the transitional benefit period. The Case Manager is responsible for identifying or for soliciting from the participant his statement of need. All support service payments for the transitional benefit services period must be entered in the eligibility system by the last work day in the month following transitional benefit services closure. Payment may be made in the month after transitional benefit services closure for expenses from the final month of transitional benefit eligibility. Payment may not be made for any expenses from the month following transitional benefit closure.