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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 3
West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 37 Chapter 3 Eligibility Determination Groups
3.4 WV WORKS ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION GROUPS 3.4.1 THE ASSISTANCE GROUP (AG) 3.4.1.A Who Must Be Included? Whether or not an individual has income sufficient to meet his own needs or the needs of his dependents is not relevant when determining if the individual must be included in the AG. A Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipient, age 18 or over, cannot be included in the AG. See “Who Cannot Be Included” below. The following individuals must be included in the AG: • All minor, dependent, blood-related, and adoptive siblings who live in the same household with a specified relative. Specified Relative Example: Two children, Rose and Daisy, who have the same mother but different fathers, live with Rose’s paternal grandparents. The children are blood-related and would normally be required to be included in the same AG. Rose’s grandparents are not specified relatives of Daisy; therefore, Daisy is not eligible for WV WORKS: however, Rose would be. • The parent(s) of the child(ren) identified in the example above when the parent(s) lives with the child(ren), unless he falls under any of the categories of who must not be included listed below. • In cases of joint custody, only the custodial parent is included. The custodial parent is the one with whom the child(ren) lives more than 50% of the time in a given month. The custodial parent of any child may change from month to month. If the child lives with each parent exactly 50% of the time, the parents must decide who the custodial parent is. • Parents who attend school, work, or are looking for work away from home, including those who work out of state, must be included, unless there is a legal separation. • The legal spouse of the parent described above, regardless of the legal spouse’s legal relationship to the child(ren), unless he falls under any of the categories of who must not be included listed below. NOTE: The stepparent may not choose to be excluded when the parent is in the home.