WAG 03-06-01
Count each month of regular roll TANF benefits received in Illinois as an adult from 07/97 on, except as follows.
Do not count assistance issued by Mercury, i.e., not issued on the regular rolls. Do not count a month in which the person is under age 18. Do not count a month of assistance received as a child. Do not count a month in which the family has a child in the home approved for a Home & Community-based Care waiver.
From 07/97 through 09/98, do not count a month for anyone in the case if earnings are budgeted for work which averaged 20 or more hours per week.
From 10/98 through 09/99, do not count a month for anyone in the case if:
- earnings are budgeted for work which averages 25 hours or more per week on an 04 case or
- earnings are budgeted for work which averages 35 hours or more per week on an 06 case.
From 10/99 on, do not count a month for anyone in the case if:
- earnings are budgeted for work which averages 30 hours or more per week on an 04 case or
- earnings are budgeted for work which averages 35 hours or more per week on an 06 case.
From 01/99 on, do not count a month for the caretaker in an 04 case if they:
- attend an approved college degree program full-time and
- have a cumulative grade-point-average (GPA) of at least 2.5 on a 4-point scale.
From 09/01 on, do not count a month for anyone in the case if CAU approves a family care barrier.
From 07/02 on, do not count a month for a person who has a Domestic Violence Exclusion. 
Beginning 07/10, sexual violence was added and the Domestic Violence Exclusion was renamed to Family Violence Exclusion.
