Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 5, March 10, 2024
Migrant or seasonal farm worker households may be considered
destitute of income upon initial certification or recertification, but only for
the first month of each certification period.
A. Migrant or seasonal farm worker households
may have little or no income at the time of application even though they
receive income at some time during the month of application. Such households
will be considered destitute and thereby entitled to expedited application
processing if their only income is from a terminated and/or new source under
the following circumstances:
1. The
household's only income for the month of application was received from a
terminated source prior to the date of application.
a. Income is considered to be from a
terminated source if it is normally received on a monthly or more frequent
basis and is not expected to be received again from the same source during
either the remainder of the month of application or the month following (i.e.,
migrant work ended with one grower).
b. Income that is normally received less
often than monthly is considered to be from a terminated source if it is not
anticipated to be received during the month in which it would normally be
received (i.e., quarterly income not received in the normal third
month).
2. The
household's only income for the month of application is more than twenty-five
dollars ($25) from a new source and it will not be received by the tenth (10th)
calendar day after the filing date of an application for initial certification,
or by the tenth calendar day after the household's normal issuance cycle if the
application is for recertification.
a. Income
is considered to be from a new source if the income of more than twenty-five
dollars ($25) is normally received on a monthly or more frequent basis but has
not been received from that source within thirty (30) calendar days prior to
the filing date of application.
b.
Income is considered to be from a new source if the income of more than
twenty-five dollars ($25) is normally received less often than monthly but was
not received within the last normal interval between payments.
3. The household's only income is
a combination of that received from a terminated source prior to date of
application and income of more than twenty-five dollars ($25) received in the
month of application from a new source, which will not be received by the tenth
(10th) calendar day after the date of initial application, or by the tenth
(10th) calendar day after the household's normal issuance cycle if application
is for recertification.
B. A migrant farm worker's source of income
shall be considered to be the particular grower, and not the crew chief. A
migrant who moves from one grower to another shall be considered to have moved
from a terminated source to a new source.
C. There is no limit on the number of times a
household can be considered destitute of income provided that before each
subsequent expedited certification, the household either has completed the
verification requirements that were postponed at the last expedited
certification or the household was certified under normal processing standards
since the last expedited certification.
4.406.1
Income Calculation When
Destitute of Income
A. Destitute
households shall have their eligibility and level of benefits calculated for
the month of application by considering only that income received between the
first of the month and the date of application. It if is an initial month
application, the first application or an application received after the
household's last certification period expired, the allotment for the initial
month shall be prorated to cover days from date of application to the end of
the month.
B. If income of more
than twenty-five dollars ($25) from a new source has not been received or is
not anticipated within ten (10) calendar days from the date of initial
application or within ten (10) calendar days after the household's normal
issuance cycle if applying for recertification, it shall be
disregarded.
C. Travel advances
provided by an employer to reimburse travel costs of relocation of a new
employee is exempt income and does not affect the destitute status of a
household. If the travel advance is, by written contract, an advance of wages
that will be subtracted from wages later earned by the employee, the money is
considered as income but shall not affect the determination of whether
subsequent payments from the employer are from a new source of income nor
whether the household shall be considered destitute.
