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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 38 Chapter 3 Eligibility Determination Groups
• All minor, dependent, blood-related, and adoptive children of the legal spouse of the parent, regardless of the relationship of the children to the other children in the home, provided they are living with a specified relative. • The non-parent caretaker who has chosen to be included by signing the WV WORKS Caretaker Relative Option form (DFA-WVW-10) within the past 12 months. • The parent(s) of an unemancipated minor parent (mp), even when the mp requests benefits for the child only. This situation would also include the blood-related siblings of the mp. Refer above for the legal spouse of the parent. 3.4.1.B Who Must Not Be Included? Individuals who fit in at least one of the following categories are ineligible. When all members of the AG meet any of the criteria listed below, the entire case is ineligible. In addition, when all otherwise eligible children meet any of the criteria listed below, except receipt of foster care, adoption assistance, or SSI benefits for a dependent child is age 18 or over, the AG is ineligible. • Individuals who are noncitizens and are ineligible because they have been sponsored by a private or public agency or organization, or because of deeming income from sponsor to noncitizen. • Individuals who do not meet the citizenship requirements of Chapter 15. • Individuals, age 18 or over, who are eligible for SSI benefits as determined by the Social Security Administration (SSA). o This includes individuals who are approved, but who have not yet received a payment and individuals for whom benefits are temporarily suspended due to overpayment. NOTE: When an individual is required to be in two or more AGs, the AGs must be combined. NOTE: The caretaker relative may receive WV WORKS when there are no children in the AG if all the children are ineligible for WV WORKS only because: • The children are age 18 or over and receive SSI benefits; or • The children receive adoption assistance payments; or • The children receive foster care payments.