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Good Cause for Failure to Sell Property - Conditional Benefits - Iowa

If you are the recipient of Conditional Benefits, and if you have not sold the property within the time limits, the caseworker will determine if you have good cause. Good cause is granter when circumstances beyond your control prevent the sale, despite your reasonable and diligent efforts. Good cause includes the following situations:

·        You have accepted an offer to sell, but the prospective buyer cannot or will not complete the purchase.

·        You are ill or injured, are hospitalized or homebound, cannot begin or continue sale attempts, and cannot arrange for someone else to help.

·        The co-owner of the resource dies, and probate of the estate delays efforts to sell the resource.

If good cause exists, you will be allowed an additional three months to sell personal property. Your case will be canceled if personal property is not sold within six months, regardless of good cause.

Real property must be sold within nine months. However, are attempting but is still unable to sell real property after nine months, the property may be excludable.

Real Property Not Sold During the Nine-Month Period

Sometimes the real property does not sell despite reasonable efforts. Real property can continue to be exempt after the nine-month sale period when the value of the property exceeds resource limits and a reasonable effort is being made to sell the property. Reasonable efforts are defined in the same way as reasonable efforts were defined in the conditional eligibility period.

If eligibility is canceled for at least one month, the conditional period begins again.

State Supplementary Assistance granted after the conditional eligibility period is over is not subject to recovery. But when the property is sold, the State Supplementary Assistance granted during the conditional period is subject to recovery. See: Repayment of State Supplementary Assistance and SSI.

See Also:

·           Conditional Benefits for SSI and State Supplementary Assistance

·           Eligibility Requirements for State Supplementary Assistance

·           Overview of State Supplementary Assistance

·           Overview of Benefits in Iowa

Source: DHS Employees’ Policy Manual

Title 6, Other Income Maintenance (IM) Programs

·     Chapter B, State Supplemental Assistance, Resources, Conditional Benefits, Good Cause for Failure to Sell Property, pages 13, 16-17

Regulation citations: 20 CFR 416.1245

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