Dispatch 1052018

Programs

KEES Availability this Weekend

Saturday 1/6: 8am-8pm

Sunday 1/7: 1pm-6pm

Medical Programs

Non-Medical Programs Only

TANF Non-Compliances and the Impact to the Food Assistance Budget

When a TANF member is given a non-compliance for Work Programs or CSS, KEES rules determines the FA member as FRE and should add one month of the of the TANF grant into the FA budget. KEES is applying the FA comparable penalty correctly, but failing to apply one month of the TANF grant into the FA budget. Until this is fixed, staff need to manually add the TANF grant amount to the Income Amount Detail page with a begin and end date equal to 1 month.

The FA Redetermination batch will run EDBC and remove the TANF grant from the budget according to the end date set on the Income Amount Detail page.

Use the following steps to enter the TANF grant amount:

1. Select a Program Type of Non-Medical and an Income Category of Government Payments from the Income List page.

2. Click the Add button. The Income Detail page displays.

3. Select the Consumer’s Name, a Type of Cash Assistance and a Frequency of Once a Month.

4. Click the Add button from the Income Amounts block. The Income Amount Detail page displays.

5. Enter the previous months TANF grant amount in the Reported Amount field.

6. Enter the Begin Date. This should be the 1st day of the month after TANF was discontinued.

7. Enter the End Date. This should be the last day of the month after TANF was discontinued.

8. Select Verified from the Verified drop-down menu and Other from the Source drop-down menu.

9. Click the Save and Return button. The Income Detail page displays.

10. Click the Save and Return button.