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DE TANF - Financial Eligibility

In order to be financially eligible for Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF), your Family Budget Group:

·      Must have resources that do not exceed the resource limit, which is generally $1,000 (See TANF - Resource Eligibility for details about and exceptions to the resource limits.); and

·      Must have Gross Income that does not exceed 185% of the Standard of Need for your family size; and

·      Must have Net Income that does not exceed the Payment Standard for your family size.

See TANF - Income Eligibility for details about the Gross Income Test and Net Income Test for TANF applicants and recipients.

Family Budget Groups and Assistance Units

In some circumstances your Family Budget Group may have more than one Assitance Unit. In such cases, the income and the size of each Assistance Unit is used in determining the TANF Income-Eligibility or the General Assistance (GA) Income-Eligibility of the members of each Assistance Unit.

Resource-Eligibility for both TANF and GA, however, is always determined for the Family Budget Group as a whole.

And the size of the Family Budget Group is used to cap the total of the TANF and/or GA payments in accordance with the TANF Payment Standards.

See also:

DE TANF - Income Eligibility

DE TANF - Resource Eligibility

DE General Assistance Overview

DE GA - Financial Eligibility

DE DSS - Application Procedures

DE DSS - Change Reporting Requirements

DE DSS - Contact Information

Source:

DSS Policy Manual (Sect. 4002.2, 4007.2)

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