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The Division of Social Services (DSS) requires that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients cooperate in developing and entering into a Contract of Mutual Responsibility (CMR).
The fiscal sanction for not cooperating, without good cause, in the development of the Contract will be an initial $50.00 reduction in TANF benefits. This reduction will increase each month by $50.00, either until there is compliance or the case is closed. (See TANF Contract of Mutual Responsibility for details.)
The Contract of Mutual Responsibility encompasses three broad categories of requirements: 1) Self-sufficiency; 2) Teen responsibility requirements; and 3) Enhanced family functioning.
Self-Sufficiency: Self-sufficiency requirements are those related to employment and training, to work, and to ensuring school attendance of dependent children under age 16.
Teen Responsibility: Teen responsibility requirements include maintaining satisfactory school attendance, or ensuring satisfactory attendance, for dependent children 16 years of age and older or participating in employment and training activities.
Enhanced Family Functioning: Enhanced family functioning requirements include, but are not limited to, attending family planning and parenting education sessions, ensuring that children are immunized, and participating in substance abuse assessment and treatment.
The severity of the sanctions differ, depending upon the type and number of violations:
Self-Sufficiency: The penalty for failure to comply with self-sufficiency requirements is a 1/3 reduction of the TANF benefit for the first occurrence, 2/3 reduction of the TANF benefit for the second occurrence and a total loss of the TANF benefit for the third occurrence.
Teen Responsibility: The penalty for failure to comply with teen responsibility requirements is a $68 reduction in the grant, if the teen does not comply, and an additional $68 if the caretaker does not work with the appropriate agencies to remedy the situation.
Enhanced Family Functioning: The penalty for failure to comply with enhanced family functioning requirements is an initial $50 reduction of the TANF benefit. This reduction will increase by $50 every month until there is compliance with the requirement. The initial $50 reduction will be imposed whether the family fails to comply with one, or more than one, family functioning requirement. TANF recipients have to comply with all requirements before the sanction can end.
Failing to comply with both enhanced family functioning and self-sufficiency requirements of the Contract of Mutual Responsibility will result in combined penalties for each. For example, both a $50 reduction and 1/3 reduction to the TANF benefit.
Failures to comply with self-sufficiency requirements are not treated as separate activity violations, but as one component. Accordingly, a person who quits employment without good cause and is sanctioned 1/3, receives a 2/3 sanction for the second violation whether it is for a job quit or noncompliance with employment and training activities or cooperation to ensure compliance with school attendance for dependent children under age 16.
DSS cannot impose sanctions when individuals refuse to participate in work or work-related activities if these individuals are single custodial parents with at least one child under age six , and these parents have demonstrated an inability to obtain needed child care. This provision neither makes parents exempt from participation in work activities, nor makes them exempt from time limits. It only restricts DSS authority to sanction.
A sanction is considered cured when the sanctioned individual either becomes exempt from the TANF requirements or demonstrates that he/she is cooperating with the requirements. (See TANF Training and Employment Overview for the exemptions.)
DE TANF - Pay-After-Performance Work Experience
DE TANF - Employment and Training - Education Possibilities
DE TANF - Employment and Training - Supportive Services
DE DSS - Application Procedures
DE DSS - Change Reporting Requirements
DSS Policy Manual (Sects. 3009, 3009.1, 3010.1 & 3011.2 )
DE TANF Employment and Training Overview
DE General Assistance Overview
DE Division of Social Services - Overview
DE Benefit Information System Overview
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