2.10.5  Subtracting Months of Eligibility

The FEPFinancial and Employment Planner must adjust an individual's time limit by subtracting the entire month of participation in the Time Limit Tracking application in the following situations:

1.             If a participant voluntarily returns the full amount of a CSJCommunity Service Job or W-2 TW-2 Transition payment within 1 year of the payment issuance date. The refund can be made in cash, by personal check, money order, or by returning the issued payment. If the voluntarily returned payment is from a W-2 Paid Employment Position A Community Service Job or W-2 Transition placement participant who is sanctioned, see 2.10.9.1 for changing the Federal Indicator in the Time Limit Tracking Application.

2.             If a W-2Wisconsin Works payment is returned to the agency due to an undeliverable address and the participant does not pick up the check within 30 days.

3.             If a participant repays in full payments received from an overpayment caused by agency error or inadvertent participant error. When the entire overpayment is repaid, those months of eligibility must be restored. See 2.10.9 for cases of IPVIntentional Program Violation, sanctioned participation, or fraud.

4.             If a TEMPTrial Employment Match Program employer does not request a TEMP subsidy for a month of employment.

There are times when a month of participation will count toward an individual’s 48-month state lifetime limit and 24-month placement time limit, but the FEP must adjust the Federal Indicator so the month does not count toward the federal lifetime limit. (See 2.10.9.1 for changing the Federal Indicator in the Time Limit Tracking application)

See 2.10.2.3 for adding month of eligibility when TANFTemporary Assistance for Needy Families is received from another state.

History: Release 21-09; Release 17-02; Release 11-06.