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TPL (Third Party Liability) - an individual, entity or program that is or may be liable to pay all or part of the medical costs of injury, disease or disability of a client.

TPQY (Third Party Query) - an automated system which allows rapid access to SSA and SSI information.

Temporary absence - see Absence.

Tenancy in common - A tenancy by two or more persons, in equal or unequal undivided shares, each person having an equal right to possess the whole property but no right of survivorship.

Terminate - to close a case and/or an individual from a program; to end the certification period before the scheduled time of expiration.

Timely reporting - when information is provided either in writing, in person or by telephone within ten days of the day the client becomes aware of the change in circumstances.

Trafficking -

A. For victims, a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age and the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision 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;

B. For fraud, illegally trading, buying or selling Food Stamp benefits.

Trust - a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another.

Trustee - any person(s) appointed by the instrument creating the trust, or any person appointed by the court to administer the trust. (AKA grantee)

A. Trustor - the person who sets aside resources by placing them in a trust. Also known as donor, grantor or settler; and

B. Beneficiary - the person(s) who benefits from the trust during the life of the trustor and/or who benefits upon the death of the trustor. Any person(s) appointed by the instrument creating the trust, or any person appointed by the court to administer the trust (aka grantee).