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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 20

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 66 Chapter 20 Emergency and Special Assistance Programs

20.5.7.B Residency Check Prior to Summer EBT benefit issuance, the state agency must ensure all students (regardless of how they are eligible) are West Virginia residents. Only students who reside in the state of West Virginia will receive WV SEBT. Students residing outside of state boundaries will need to inquire how to apply in another state. A student residing in WV but attending an NSLP school in a border state may be eligible for SEBT. 20.5.7.C Deduplication Both lists (applicants and streamlined certified) of qualified students will be cross referenced from all data sources to ensure each qualified student only receives a single SEBT benefit. Any student whose record appears more than once will be removed to only produce a single benefit. When a student is missed and is issued more than a single SEBT benefit, the additional benefits will be removed from the EBT card once discovered. These cases will not be forwarded to OIG, unless it is discovered the household used a benefit they were not qualified to receive. 20.5.8 SERVING VULNERABLE POPULATIONS Students experiencing homelessness: The State of WV will communicate Summer EBT information with participating schools and make information available to each Homeless Services Liaison within public school systems. At last resort, WV will accept a self-attestation without verification. At every benefit application and redetermination, DoHS eligibility staff is required to discuss household living situations. This includes whether a family is unhoused or housing insecure. This allows the agency to better serve our more vulnerable families. Foster students: Students in foster placement will receive benefits on the same schedule as non-foster students. DoHS will collaborate with the Bureau for Social Services for dissemination of program information to foster guardians and kinship placements. PATH data will be utilized to issue benefits for foster students when reliable contact information exists. When reliable contact information does not exist, the Foster guardian will need to complete an application. All income for an economic unit containing an eligible Foster Student will be disregarded for SEBT, after the eligibility worker receives confirmation of Foster services