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PDF Document Field Op 01-010 State Letter 1200 - Emergency Assistance Regulations 4/26/2001
PDF Document Field Op 2003-05 : Impact of State Letter 1247 on EA Assistance Units

This memo provides information on four topics found in State Letter 1247 that impact EA eligibility. State Letter 1247 is effective February 3, 2003. 1. SSI income is now countable income for EA purposes 2. Additional 30 days of shelter when income exceeds EA Eligibility Standard 3. Relationship to the needy child changes 4. 12-month rule changes

2/3/2003
PDF Document Field Op 98-032 Temp. ESB + 20-Mile Rule for Temp. ESP8/14/1998
PDF Document Field Op Memo 2006-49: Shelter Benefits Received Under Presumptive Eligibility Not Subject to 12-Month Rule and Assistance Pending an Appeal when Presumptive Eligibility Shelter Terminated

The purpose of this memo is to inform TAO staff about the revised presumptive eligibility procedures and to restate the role of the AU Managers or Homeless Coordinators in assisting EA applicants in obtaining the missing verifications.

10/20/2006
PDF Document Hotline Focus - 8/06

EA-- 12 month rule and natural disasters; eligibility for EA and refusal to apply for TAFDC.

8/1/2006
PDF Document Hotline Focus for 01/02

EA 12 month rule;  FS: cell phone is allowable utility deduction but not prepaid calling card; TAFDC child support cooperation.

1/1/2002
PDF Document Hotline Focus for 07/00

FS: no rent allowance when rent is paid in entirety by someone not in household; full unheated SUA even if bills are low; residents of dv shelters eligible for FS even if shelter provide meals;  calculation of FS for sanctioned teen; how to calculate period of ineligibility due to voluntary quit prior to application; EA: receipt of shelter in another state does not count as receipt of EA in past 12 months; TAFDC: time limit is counted in terms of calendar months not cyclical months.

7/1/2000
PDF Document Hotline Focus for 09/02

EA eligibility for families where at least one member is PRUCOL; DTA obligation to take applications; EA shelter applications for disaster victims.

9/1/2002
PDF Document Hotline Focus for 10/02

TAFDC for SSI recipients on zero SSI grants;  Transitional child care not available where children still receive TAFDC; EA 12 month rule exceptions;  child care during TAFDC recipient's maternity leave from employ,ent.

10/1/2002
PDF Document Hotline Focus for 11/02

Food Stamp disability determinations; EA continuance of benefits after 12 months in shelter; TAFDC benefits for eligible immigrants whose children are not eligible.

11/1/2002
PDF Document SSI Disaster benefits

There is reference to these benefits in the answers to one of the questions in this Transitions, and a citation to fuller explication in the EA User's Guide

8/14/2006


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