• she/he refuses to provide information needed to determine his/her eligibility;
  
• she/he is a parent or caretaker who refused without good cause to cooperate with child support cooperation or medical support assignment requirements (see Chapter 2:  Child Support Requirements  in Part V);
  
• she/he is a member of another public assistance unit receiving TANF;
  
• she/he is a child and the applicant/recipient has requested that the child be excluded from the assistance unit (such as in the case of a child who has significant income that, if included, will make other family members ineligible for Medicaid);
  
• he is the expecting father of an unborn child, there are no other children in the assistance unit until the month in which the child is born, and the expecting father is not married to the mother (if the expecting parents are married, then the expecting father’s needs are included provisionally, but he is ineligible for MA benefits with this group until the child is born);
  
• she/he is a foster parent and the ward is included in the unit;
  
• she/he is a parent whose needs are met by his/her spouse who is not a natural or adoptive parent of the dependent child, and the parent has chosen to be excluded; or
  
• she/he is a parent under age 21, his/her needs are met by his/her parent(s) living in the home, and the parent under 21 has chosen to be excluded.

• s/he refuses to provide information needed to determine his/her eligibility;
  
  
• s/he is a parent or caretaker who refused without good cause to cooperate with child support cooperation or medical support assignment requirements (see Chapter 2:  Child Support Requirements in Part V);
  
  
• s/he is a child and the applicant/recipient has requested that the child be excluded from the assistance unit;
  
  
• He is the expecting father of an unborn child, there are no other children in the assistance unit until the month in which the child is born, and the expecting father is not married to the mother (if the expecting parents are married, then the expecting father’s needs are included provisionally, but he is ineligible for MA benefits with this group until the child is born);
  
  
• s/he is a parent whose needs are met by his/her spouse who is not a natural or adoptive parent of the dependent child, and the parent has chosen to be excluded; or
  
  
• s/he is a parent under age 21, his/her needs are met by his/her parent(s) living in the home, and the parent under 21 has chosen to be excluded.

• non-qualified immigrants and certain categories of qualified immigrants (see Chapter 7: Citizenship/Alienage in this Part);
  
  
• a step-parent whose needs are excluded from the grant because s/he does not have a child in common with the parent of a child in the assistance unit;
  
  
• foster children and children receiving adoption assistance.  Such children, however, may qualify the caretaker for TANF assistance (see Section 4.3:  Adoption Subsidy and Section 4.16:  Foster Care Payments in Part VI);
  
  
• unless exempt, an adult who failed to sign the Customer/Agency Agreement. Persons exempt from this requirement are those who are working at least 30 hours per week or who are subject to the school attendance requirement;
  
  
• individuals who failed to cooperate with IMA at the application stage (see Section 3.4.1: Failure to Cooperate with IMA at the Application Stage in Part III); and
  
  
• SSI recipients.  An SSI recipient may be the caretaker of a child but shall not be included in the TANF grant).

A child receiving SSI shall not be included in the TANF grant but may qualify the caretaker.  Two parents may be included in the grant if the SSI child is deprived due to incapacity or unemployment of a parent (see Chapter 8:  TANF Child Deprivation in this Part).

Example

Ms. Roberts lives with her daughter, Sara, who receives SSI.  Ms. Roberts has no source of income.  Ms. Roberts can qualify for a TANF grant based on a group size of one.  Sara would not be included in the grant.

The SSR should never deem the income and/or assets of an SSI recipient to the group.  The SSR should not compute an overpayment (see Chapter 6:  Overpayment and Underpayment) for the dual receipt of TANF and SSI unless:

• IMA informed SSA that a person would be removed from the grant on a specific date, and
  
• the person was not removed from the grant on that date.