Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1.
Prospective budgeting.
A county agency shall use prospective budgeting to calculate
the assistance payment amount for the first two months for an applicant who has
not received general assistance for at least one payment month preceding the
first month of payment under a current application, subject to items A to
E.
A. Income received or anticipated
in the first month of program eligibility must be applied against the need of
the first month. Income received or anticipated in the second month must be
applied against the need of the second month.
B. When the assistance payment for any part
of the first two months is based on anticipated income, an initial assistance
payment amount must be determined based on information available at the time
the initial assistance payment is made. When the amount of actual countable
income is different than the anticipated countable income which was budgeted to
determine the assistance payment for the first two months, the assistance unit
is liable for an overpayment or is eligible for a corrective payment for the
difference between anticipated and actual countable income for those two
months.
C. The assistance payment
for the first two months of program eligibility must be determined by budgeting
both recurring and nonrecurring income for those two months.
D. An assistance unit shall have the
assistance payment amount determined prospectively according to items A to C if
the assistance unit:
(1) has had assistance
suspended for a month as provided by part
9500.1233, subpart
2; and
(2) has experienced a recurring change of at
least $50 in net income in the month preceding the month of suspension or in
the month of suspension.
E. An individual who enters a facility with a
negotiated rate or a shelter facility described in Minnesota Statutes, section
256D.05,
subdivision 3, shall have an assistance payment determined prospectively from
the date the individual entered the facility. Any income, including grants of
public assistance, received by the individual before entering the facility must
only be applied against the assistance unit's standard specified under part
9500.1231, subpart
2. Any assistance payments
made to the individual beginning two months after the month the individual
leaves the facility must be determined retrospectively according to subpart
2.
Subp. 2.
Retrospective
budgeting.
Retrospective budgeting must be used to calculate the monthly
assistance payment amount after the payment for the first two months has been
made under subpart
1. Retrospective budgeting is
subject to items A and B.
A.
Retrospective budgeting is used to determine the amount of the assistance
payment in the first two months of program eligibility when:
(1) an assistance unit applies for general
assistance for the same month for which general assistance has been terminated,
the interruption in eligibility is less than one payment month, and the general
assistance payment for the immediately preceding month was determined
retrospectively; or
(2) a person
applies to be added to an assistance unit, that assistance unit has received
general assistance for at least two preceding months, and that person has been
receiving general assistance for at least two months as a member of another
assistance unit.
B.
Income received in the budget month by an assistance unit and by a filing unit
member who is not included in the assistance unit must be applied against the
standard of assistance to determine the assistance payment to be issued for the
payment month, except as provided in subitems (1) to (4).
(1) When a source of income ends before the
third payment month, that income is not considered in calculation of the
assistance payment for the third payment month. When a source of income ends
before the fourth payment month, that income is not considered when determining
the assistance payment for the fourth payment month.
(2) When a member of a filing unit leaves the
household of the assistance unit, the income of that member is not budgeted
retrospectively for any full payment month in which that household member does
not live with that household and is not included in the filing unit.
(3) When a child is removed from an
assistance unit because the child is no longer a dependent, the income of that
child is not budgeted retrospectively for payment months in which that child is
not included in the assistance unit.
(4) When a person ceases to have financial
responsibility for one or more members of an assistance unit, the income of
that person is not budgeted retrospectively for the payment months which follow
the month in which financial responsibility ends.
Subp. 3. [Repealed, L 2011 1Sp9
art 9 s 19]
Subp. 4.
Correction of underpayments.
A county agency must correct an underpayment within seven
calendar days after the underpayment has been identified, by adding the
corrective payment amount to the monthly assistance payment or by issuing a
separate payment to a current recipient. When an underpayment occurs in a
payment month specified in subpart
1, and is not identified
until the next payment month or later, that underpayment must first be
subtracted from any overpayment balance before issuing the corrective payment.
An underpayment for a current payment month must not be applied against an
overpayment balance and payment must be issued within seven calendar days after
the underpayment is identified.
Subp.
5.
Prohibition against use of general assistance grant to
recover overpayment from other maintenance programs.
Subpart
4 applies only to
overpayments or underpayments of assistance from the general assistance
program. A county agency may not recover an overpayment by another maintenance
benefit program from a general assistance grant.
