Page 1591
West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 18
West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 173 Chapter 18 WV WORKS Activities/Requirements
Participant Notification Example 1: A non-recipient Work-Eligible individual’s family last received WV WORKS in January and applies for payment for vehicle repairs in August. The Case Manager includes the following statement in the letter: Your last WV WORKS benefit was for January. Payments may be made to former WV WORKS participants for only six months after the last benefit. Since you applied for the payment in August, you are not eligible to receive this payment. Your eligibility for these payments ended in July. Participant Notification Example 2: Crocus, a former participant, last received WV WORKS four months ago. Five months ago, her youngest child turned 19. The Case Manager includes the following statement in the letter: Our records show that Ficus is your youngest child and he turned 19 on _____. Since he is now an adult, you do not meet the requirement of having a dependent child in your home. Under no circumstances is it correct to give or mail a DFA-WVW-NL-3 to a participant without a narrative Case Manager-composed explanation of the reason for the denial. The DFA-WVW-NL-3 offers the participant the right to a Fair Hearing on this denial and must be mailed or given to the participant with a Hearing request form.
The Employment Assistance Program allows the employed former WV WORKS participant to continue to receive benefits through a 100% earned income disregard for the transitional benefit period following WV WORKS closure. EAP recipients must continue to cooperate with the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement (BCSE) and child support must continue to be redirected while receiving the EAP payment. If they fail to cooperate their EAP case will be closed. Additions to the AG after the EAP has begun do not increase the EAP payment amount. The unearned income of the added individual(s) must be considered. Home visits and self- sufficiency evaluations are not required during the EAP period. NOTE: Continued support service payments are made to those who exhaust 60 months receipt of TANF if an adult in the household was employed during the 60th month of receipt and they otherwise meet the qualifications in this section.