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FITAP - Cash Grants

The amount of a cash grant paid under the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP) in Louisiana is dependent upon family size and on adjustments because of earnings of the recipient. As of September 2008, unadjusted flat grants, for families with up to six members, were as follows:

·                    1 person family = $122/month

·                    2 person family = $188/month

·                    3 person family = $240/month

·                    4 person family = $284/month

·                    5 person family = $327/month

·                    6 person family = $366/month

·                    7 person family = $402/month

·                    8 person family = $441/month

·                    9 person family = $477/month

·                   10 person family = $512/month

Earned Income Disregards: Earned income may cause a reduction of Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP) cash benefits. But, often earned income is disregarded (i.e. it does not cause reduction in cash benefits.) Recipients of (FITAP) cash benefits are eligible for two types of "earned income disregards". The two available earned income disregards are:

1.        A standard deduction of $120/month for any earned income.

2.        A one-time $900/month disregard for six months (not necessarily consecutive) for each FITAP family member.

Examples of Income Disregard Situations:

1.        A family of four people receives a total of $284/month. One family member, who has not previously worked, gets a job and earns $250/month. For six months that person’s earned income causes no deduction from the FITAP cash grant because $120 in earnings is disregarded as a standard exemption; and the remaining $130/month is disregarded because it is excludable under the $900/month disregard. After the person has worked for six months, the FITAP family cash benefit is reduced by $130/month because the $900/month exclusion no longer applies. The family FITAP benefit is therefore reduced to $154/month.

2.        A family of four, as described in example 1, receives a total of $284/month. One family member, who has not previously worked, gets a job and earns $250/month. After three months that person loses the job. Five months later the person goes back to work for $300/month and continues working for several years. During the first 3 month work period, earned income causes no reduction in FITAP cash benefits to the family (because both disregards apply.) During the second work period, a reduction in FITAP cash benefits is incurred beginning in the fourth month of employment (because the worker has previously used three months of the 6-month available $900/month disregard.) Therefore, beginning in the fourth month of the second job, the worker’s earnings cause a $180/month reduction in FITAP cash benefits. The family FITAP cash benefit is reduced to $104/month beginning with the fourth month of the second job.

3.        A family of four, as described in examples 1 and 2 above, receive a total of $284/month. Two family members work for three months and earn $1000/month each. There is no reduction to the $284/month FITAP cash grant because the standard and one time $900 6-month disregards apply to each family member individually.

Source

http://www.dss.state.la.us/departments/ofs/Family_Independence_Temporary_.html

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