Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1240-01-18-.06 - AUTHORIZATION OF RETROACTIVE ASSISTANCE - AFDC ONLY
(1)
Retroactive Initial Payments To Approved Applicants.
(a) Currently Eligible Applicants. When it is
established that an applicant is eligible for assistance in the month the
decision is being made, then the worker considers whether the applicant would
have been eligible for the month during which he/she applied and for any months
between application and approval. If the applicant is currently eligible and
would have been eligible during the month he/she applied and subsequent
month(s) prior to approval, a single retroactive payment can be made to begin
with the date of application and to cover each month from application to the
month of approval. If the applicant is currently eligible but would not have
been eligible during the month he/she applied, then the retroactive payment can
be authorized to begin with the first day of the month in which eligibility was
attained.
(b) Currently Ineligible
Applicants. If an applicant is not currently eligible because of a change in
his/her circumstances which occurred after application and prior to the current
month, a retroactive payment may be made for the period from the application
date to the month the decision of ineligibility is made. However, if the
application and the change in circumstances which caused ineligibility occurred
during the same month, payment for that month cannot be made, unless the change
was the death of the applicant and he/she would have been eligible for the
month had he/she lived.
(2) Retroactive Assistance Payments To
Recipients Are To Be
(a) To correct an agency
error which caused a recipient to be deprived of at least $1.00 per month in
assistance
(b) To compensate for
the time lag between the date of application and the month of initial payment.
A single retroactive payment is to be authorized to cover the amount of
assistance the applicant should have received from the date of application to
the effective month of approval
(c)
To compensate for the agency's erroneous exclusion from an aid group of an
eligible individual for whom assistance was requested.
(3) Reserved.
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