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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Acronyms, Forms, and Glossary

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Acronyms, Forms, and Glossary

Term Definition Chapter (s) Secondary Verification A request to validate noncitizen documentation, after or in lieu of primary verification, using Form G-845. Secondary verification is performed by the ISV using various automated or manual sources. This is completed by the Division of Family Assistance (DFA) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement (SAVE) Coordinator. 15 Self-Attestation Information reported by an individual about financial and non- financial information. 4 Self-Employment A situation in which an individual has an investment in a business, has costs involved in producing income from this business, and could suffer a loss. He is usually responsible for his own income taxes and Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) taxes. A self-employed individual usually has to provide his own equipment, supplies and materials needed to do a job or produce the income. He controls to some extent his hours of work and where the work is done. 4 Self-Sufficiency Plan (SSP) The SSP (form DFA-SSP-1) is a negotiated contract between each of the adult or emancipated minor members of the WV WORKS AG, or non-recipient Work-Eligible Individual(s), and the Case Manager, as the representative of the DOHS. The SSP is specific to each participant. It lists the goals, as well as the tasks necessary to accomplish the goals, including specific appointments, assignments and activities for the adult/emancipated minor. In addition, the SSP identifies the circumstances which impede attainment of the established goals and specifies the services needed to overcome the impediments. 18 Severe Victim of Trafficking and Violence An individual who has been used in severe forms of trafficking in persons. For example, sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provisions, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. 15 SNAP Employment and The SNAP E&T program is to provide SNAP participants with opportunities to gain skills, training, or experience that will 3