Illinois Administrative Code
Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Part 112 - TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES
Subpart B - NON-FINANCIAL FACTORS OF ELIGIBILITY
Section 112.68 - School Attendance Initiative
Universal Citation: 89 IL Admin Code ยง 112.68
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) Identification and Referral
1) Participating elementary schools will
identify children in grades one through eight who receive TANF and who are not
attending school regularly, as defined by the school. If the schools cannot
address the families' problems that appear to be resulting in irregular school
attendance, they will refer the families to participating social service
networks. The family will be notified, in writing, of the referral and the
consequences for non-cooperation with the referral.
2) Social service networks should be
specifically equipped to address the causes of truancy, at no cost to the
family other than the normal co-payment under existing programs.
3) Upon referral, a Social Service Network
Representative will assess the specific family situation and will develop a
service plan with the family that will include getting the child to regularly
attend school.
4) The service plan
for the truant child in grades seven and eight is completed by the social
service agency, school, juvenile justice system or other agency. The plan
includes options such as community service, mandatory after school
tutoring/mentoring programs, and working with juvenile advocates. It may also
include suspension from extracurricular activities. Contact with law
enforcement may also be involved.
b) Use of Protective Payee
1) Upon failure of the family to cooperate
with the referral, or with the service plan, as determined by the social
service provider, the family will be placed under a Protective Payee with the
Social Service Network Representative acting as the payee for the family's TANF
grant. The provisions of 89 Ill. Adm. Code
117.10 shall
otherwise apply.
2) The Protective
Payee will remain in effect until the family follows through with the service
plan, as determined by the social service provider. The Protective Payee may be
discontinued during the months of June, July and August at the option of the
service provider.
c) Cash Assistance Sanctions
1) If a protective
payee plan, as provided in subsection (b) of this Section, has been in effect
for at least three months and the child continues to regularly miss school, as
defined by the school, the cash assistance payment will be reduced by 50
percent of the family's payment level until the attendance is satisfactory. If
attendance is not satisfactory after three months of reduced payments, the
entire cash payment will be stopped.
2) For a second instance, the cash assistance
payment will be reduced by 50 percent of the family's payment level for three
months. If attendance is not satisfactory after three months of reduced
payments, the entire cash payment will be stopped.
3) For a third instance and any subsequent
instance, the family's entire cash assistance payment will be stopped for at
least three months. Cash assistance will be reinstated for the fourth month if
the requirement is met during the three-month sanction period.
4) Sanction penalties accumulate by family,
not by person, during any single period of continuous assistance. A single
period of continuous assistance is not interrupted by a loss of all cash
assistance due to a sanction. If a family member's non-cooperation occurs
during a sanction period which was the result of another member's
non-cooperation, the next progressive sanction shall apply.
5) Reconciliation must be attempted before
imposing a sanction under this Section.
6) Sanctions will not be applied during the
months of June, July and August, except in the case of year-round
schools.
7) Sanctions under this
Section, employment and training programs and the Responsibility and Services
Plan (89 Ill. Adm. Code
112.79 ), and Child
Support Enforcement (89 Ill. Adm. Code
160.30 )
shall be considered along one track. After a sanction is taken under one
Section, a subsequent sanction under that Section or either of the other two
Sections will be at the next level of sanction, as set out above.
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