Child support, W-2, & cash benefit programs
Cooperation & Good Cause
Kinship Care & SSI Caretaker program
If you apply for benefits, you must cooperate with the Child Support program unless you have "Good Cause" not to cooperate.
- If the person who applied for benefits does not cooperate, he or she may not get cash benefits from the Kinship Care or SSI Caretaker Supplement program until he or she cooperates.
W-2 program & Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (for those with a child support case with a county agency)
You and everyone in your household who gets any W-2 service or cash benefits must cooperate with the Child Support program unless unless there is "Good Cause" not to cooperate.
- If anyone in your household who gets any W-2 service or cash benefits does not cooperate,
no one in the household may get W-2 services or cash
benefits.
- You may begin getting W-2 services or cash benefits again as soon as you or others in your household start to cooperate with child support. Please contact your child support agency to find out what you need to do. If anyone in your household is sanctioned 3 times, you will not get any W-2 services or cash benefits until everyone in your household cooperates or for a period of 6 months, whichever is later.
Please Note:
If you get cash benefits from a Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and have a child support case with a county agency, you are under the same rules as those who get cash benefits from the W-2 program.
Cooperating with the W-2 program (such as attending training or work) is a separate matter. Please ask your W-2 agency about cooperation with the W-2 program.
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