Cash Assistance Programs
This cash assistance program serves eligible families with dependent children.
What is TANF?
Before building a TANF assistance unit, the worker identifies everyone living in this place.
What is the household?
This is the TANF resource limit.
What is $10,000?
This interview begins a new TANF application and gives the worker a chance to verify information and explain program requirements.
What is the intake interview?
These initials name TANF activities that help participants prepare for or obtain work.
What is E&T, or Employment and Training?
This state-funded cash program may serve an eligible adult who cannot work and does not qualify for TANF or SSI.
What is General Assistance (GA)?
An 18-year-old attending high school may remain a TANF dependent child if they are expected to graduate before this birthday.
What is their 19th birthday?
This standard work expense allowance is deducted from each earner’s wages in TANF budgeting.
What is $90?
This division works with TANF families to establish paternity and collect child support.
What is the Division of Child Support Services (DCSS)?
A single custodial parent caring for a child under six generally has this weekly countable-activity requirement.
What is 20 hours?
This agreement between DSS and a TANF client sets out responsibilities intended to support self-sufficiency.
What is the Contract of Mutual Responsibility (CMR)?
A child splits time equally between two parents, and both have equal decision-making responsibility. Under the module’s joint-custody rule, this parent may receive TANF for the child.
Who is the parent who applies first?
For a TANF applicant, gross income is compared with this percentage of the applicable Standard of Need.
What is 185%?
This is the maximum amount of child support collected in a month that may be passed through to the TANF payee as a separate payment.
What is $50?
These are the three categories of requirements in the CMR.
What are Self-Sufficiency, Enhanced Family Functioning, and Teen Responsibility?
A family has a dependent child and meets the financial rules, but the worker still needs to establish this adult’s qualifying connection to the child.
What is a caretaker relationship?
A TANF applicant moved to Delaware from another state two months ago. Before approval, the worker must verify this about benefits in the former state.
What is whether the applicant is still receiving cash assistance there?
A parent is excluded from the TANF grant because they receive SSI, but their income may still affect the children’s eligibility. This term describes the parent’s role.
What is a parent payee?
During a TANF interview, a client describes abuse by a partner. The worker needs to administer the HITS screen. This condition must be met for the screening conversation.
What is speaking with the client one-on-one, without another household member present?
A TANF client does not comply with an Enhanced Family Functioning requirement. The initial sanction is this amount, which increases by the same amount each month until compliance.
What is $50?
A parent included in the TANF grant is employable and at least 18. Name the three conditions that make the family’s TANF benefits subject to the time limit.
What are a caretaker who is 18 or older, included in the grant, and employable?
A grandmother receives TANF for a child. The child’s mother moves into the home, but the grandmother continues daily care. The worker must revisit these two linked parts of the case before deciding who belongs in the grant.
What are the household relationships and assistance unit composition?
A TANF applicant’s income passes the gross income test. The worker then subtracts the $90 earned income allowance and allowable child care expenses, and compares the result to this amount.
What is the TANF Payment Standard?
A TANF applicant fears that cooperating with child support services could endanger her or her child. This exception should be explored, and this division determines whether it applies.
What is good cause?
A client’s TANF case closed after an E&T full-family sanction. The client asks how to regain benefits. Name the referral the worker sends and the participation period the client must complete.
What are a cure sanction referral to the E&T vendor and four consecutive weeks of required participation?