PM 05-10-00: Failure to Comply With a Cash Program Requirement

WAG 05-10-00

Do not increase SNAP benefits when TANF cash benefits decrease because a client failed to comply with a TANF program requirement. This may happen when there is:

• a child support sanction;
• an activity sanction;
• a sanction due to failure to cooperate with the school attendance initiative; or
• noncooperation with TANF cash REDE requirements.

Continue to budget the same amount of income by coding the amount of the cash benefit reduction as a noncompliance amount.

The penalty for failure to comply with a cash program requirement ends when the sanction ends or when the case is canceled or SWAPped to a 94 or 96 case, whichever is earlier.