Arizona Administrative Code

A. If the Department has terminated payment of benefits to an assistance unit, the Department shall not reinstate benefits unless the recipient files a new application and has a new interview. B. Notwithstanding subsection (A), the Department shall reinstate benefits within 10 ca…

To qualify for CA, a person shall satisfy all applicable criteria set forth in this Article. Notes Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-301 Adopted effective November 9, 1995 (Supp. 95-4). Amended effective July 31, 1997, under an exemption from the provisions of A.R.S. Title 41, Chapter 6 …

A. An applicant for or recipient of assistance shall cooperate with the Department as a condition of initial and continuing eligibility. The applicant or recipient shall: 1. Give the Department complete and truthful information; 2. Inform the Department of all changes in income, …

As a condition of eligibility, an assistance unit member and any person whose income is considered available to the assistance unit shall apply for all other cash benefits for which the person may be eligible, except SSI. Notes Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-303 Adopted effective Nove…

A. To qualify for CA, a person shall be an Arizona resident. B. An Arizona resident is a person who: 1. Voluntarily resides and intends to make a permanent home in Arizona, 2. Lives in Arizona at the time of making application, and 3. Is not receiving public assistance from anoth…

A. To qualify for CA, an assistance unit member shall be a United States citizen or a noncitizen legal alien who satisfies the requirements of PRWORA Section 431 and who meets eligibility requirements of PRWORA Section 402, not including any later amendments or editions, which ar…

A. To qualify for CA, an otherwise eligible person shall be: 1. A dependent child under 18 years of age; 2. A dependent child age 18 and, as provided in R6-12-314, who is a full time student in a secondary school, or the equivalent level of vocational or technical training school…

A. To qualify for CA, an assistance unit member shall furnish an Social Security number (SSN). If a member of an assistance unit lacks an SSN, the Department shall assist the person in applying for an SSN through procedures established between the Department and the United States…

A. The Department shall not provide CA to a child except as provided in subsection (C), born during a month when: 1. The parent or non-parent caretaker relative is receiving CA or supportive services, or 2. The child is born to a parent who is ineligible for CA benefits due to no…

A. To qualify for CA, a dependent child shall reside with at least one of the following specified relatives: 1. A parent; 2. A stepmother, stepfather, stepbrother, or stepsister; 3. A person who is within the fifth degree of kinship to the dependent child, including: grandmother,…

A. No child shall receive CA unless the child is deprived of parental support or care due to the continued absence, death, incapacity, or unemployment of the child's parent. B. A child suffers deprivation by continued absence when the following 3 conditions are met: 1. The child'…

A. To qualify for CA, an applicant shall assign to the Department all rights to a support obligation from any other person the applicant or recipient may have in his or her own behalf or in behalf of any other family member for whom the applicant or recipient is applying for or r…

A. An applicant or recipient may establish good cause for non-cooperation with the Department. Good cause shall exist when: 1. Cooperation is reasonably likely to result in physical or emotional harm to the dependent child, parent in the home, or the NPCR, based on the factors id…

A. As a condition of eligibility, a recipient of CA shall participate in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program (JOBS) as prescribed in A.A.C. R6-10-101 through R6-10-121, unless FAA determines that the person is exempt. B. The following persons are exempt from p…

A. As used in R6-12-306(A)(2), full-time school attendance means: 1. For high school, attendance which the school defines as full time; 2. For a trade or technical school involving shop practice, 30 hours per week; and 3. For a trade or technical school involving no shop practice…

A. The Department shall require each parent or NPCR to verify that the child is immunized, when the parent or NPCR applies for or receives CA on behalf of a dependent child. B. The Department shall require this verification at the initial interview and at each review. Acceptable …

A. The Department shall notify the assistance unit of benefit reduction or case closure when: 1. Benefits will be reduced or the case closed because of noncompliance with the requirements of R6-12-311, R6-12-312, R6-12-313(C), and R6-12-314; and 2. The assistance unit's benefits …

A. The Department shall disqualify the member of the assistance unit or the assistance unit as described in subsections (B) and (C) when a member of an assistance unit, or the parent of a dependent child whose income is considered available to the assistance unit, within 60 days …

A. The Department shall not authorize cash benefits for a needy family, except in case of hardship, when any of the following apply: 1. The needy family includes a head of household or the spouse of the head of household who has received 36 countable months of cash benefits in th…

A. The Department shall authorize cash benefits to an assistance unit that is ineligible due to the time limited restrictions in R6-12-318 or R6-12-320 when: 1. An assistance unit or the caretaker relative head of household who receives CA only for an eligible dependent child, re…

A. The Department shall not authorize cash benefits to the assistance unit when the head of household or the spouse of the head of household has received 60 countable months of cash benefits for himself or herself, funded in whole or in part by the Temporary Assistance for Needy …

A. Hardship due to a physical or mental impairment. 1. An adult assistance unit member, a minor parent head of household, the caretaker relative head of household, or the spouse of the caretaker relative head of household that claims hardship as specified in R6-12-319(B)(1) shall…

A. In determining eligibility for a cash benefit, the Department shall include all resources available to the assistance unit, unless excluded by applicable law. B. An assistance unit is ineligible for CA for any month in which the unit's resources exceed $2,000, after applicatio…

A. The Department shall consider the resources belonging to an assistance unit member available to the assistance unit. B. The Department shall consider the resources of the following individuals available to the assistance unit: 1. A dependent child's parent and minor sibling, w…

The Department shall exclude the equity value of the resources listed below, as provided in this Section. These resource exclusions shall also apply to a person whose resources are considered available to an assistance unit. 1. The usual residence of the assistance unit members; …

A. An individual development account (IDA) is a special savings account which allows a recipient of both CA and Food Stamp Program benefits to accumulate funds to achieve educational or training goals. B. Financial institutions licensed by the Arizona State Banking Department sha…

A. An assistance unit member or the parent of a dependent child in the assistance unit shall not transfer a resource with the intent to qualify or attempt to qualify for CA within one year prior to application or while receiving assistance, unless fair consideration was received.…

The Department shall verify all resources before determining an assistance unit's eligibility for a cash grant and benefit amount. Notes Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-406 Adopted effective November 9, 1995 (Supp. 95-4). Amended by exempt rulemaking at 16 A.A.R. 1141, effective July 1…

A. In determining the income eligibility of the family and benefit amount for the assistance unit, the Department shall treat all income in accordance with the provisions of this Article. B. "Gross income" shall include the following, when actually received by the family in order…

A. The Department shall consider the income of an assistance unit member available to the assistance unit for the purpose of determining a cash benefit amount. B. The Department shall consider the income of a parent and minor sibling of a dependent child in an assistance unit as …

The Department shall not count the types of income listed in this Section when determining the income of a family and the income of an assistance unit. These income exclusions shall also apply to a parent or minor sibling of a dependent child in an assistance unit when the parent…

A. The Department shall count child support, alimony, or spousal maintenance, received by a member of the family or the assistance unit or a parent or minor sibling of a dependent child in an assistance unit, before the initial eligibility determination date, as income in the mon…

When an assistance unit member or a person whose income is considered available to the assistance unit receives a nonrecurring lump sum payment, the Department shall consider the lump sum payment as a resource in accordance with Article 4. Notes Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-505 Adop…

A. For purposes of determining whether a sponsor's income and resources shall be used when determining the countable income for an assistance unit that includes a sponsored noncitizen member or for a sponsored noncitizen person whose income is considered available to the assistan…

A. For each family and assistance unit, the Department shall calculate monthly income using the methods described in R6-12-508. B. The projected income shall include income that the family and assistance unit, or a person whose income is considered available to the assistance uni…

A. The Department shall determine projected monthly income for a family and an assistance unit by the methods described in this Section. B. Averaging income. 1. When using this method, the Department shall add together income from a representative number of weeks or months and th…

The Department shall verify all income before determining eligibility and cash benefit amount. Notes Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-509 New Section R6-12-509 renumbered from R6-12-508 and amended by exempt rulemaking at 16 A.A.R. 1141, effective July 1, 2010 (Supp. 10-2). The followin…

A. A parent or NPCR with only a SSI recipient child, or a child who is receiving federal, state, or local foster care maintenance payments, may be eligible for CA upon meeting the eligibility criteria specified in this Chapter, except as otherwise provided in this Section. B. The…

The Department shall determine CA income eligibility for the family, and a benefit amount for the assistance unit during a strike period for an assistance unit member, a person whose income is considered available to the assistance unit, or a family member on strike using the str…

A. The dependent child of an ineligible foster child residing in a needy family may be eligible for CA. B. To determine a cash benefit amount, the Department shall count all income and resources of the foster child and the dependent child, other than the foster care payment, as o…

A. A minor parent means a person who: 1. Is less than 18 years of age, 2. Has never married, and 3. Is the natural parent of a dependent child living in the same household. B. An assistance unit headed by a minor parent is not eligible for CA, except as provided in subsection (C)…

A. An assistance unit with a needy child deprived of parental support because the primary wage-earning parent (PWEP) is unemployed shall receive CA through the Two-parent Employment Program (TPEP) if the assistance unit meets the eligibility criteria listed in R6-12-609, R6-12-61…

Each TPEP parent shall participate in an education, training, or employment activity, unless such the parent is exempt because the parent: 1. Is under 18 and is: a. 13-15 years old, pregnant or an unwed custodial parent, lacking a high school diploma/GED, and attending full time …

No assistance unit may receive TPEP benefits for longer than six months in a 12-month period, except that a TPEP unit may be granted a three-month extension when the JOBS administration requests the extension based on a JOBS determination that there is good cause for the extensio…

Notes Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-608 Adopted effective November 9, 1995 (Supp. 95-4). Amended effective July 31, 1997, under an exemption from the provisions of A.R.S. Title 41, Chapter 6 (Supp. 97-3). Former R6-12-608 renumbered to R6-12-604; new R6-12-608 renumbered from R6-12-6…

Notes Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-609 Adopted effective November 9, 1995 (Supp. 95-4). Amended effective July 31, 1997, under an exemption from the provisions of A.R.S. Title 41, Chapter 6 (Supp. 97-3). Former R6-12-609 renumbered to R6-12-605; new R6-12-609 renumbered from R6-12-6…

Notes Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-610 Adopted effective November 9, 1995 (Supp. 95-4). Amended effective July 31, 1997, under an exemption from the provisions of A.R.S. Title 41, Chapter 6 (Supp. 97-3). Former R6-12-610 renumbered to R6-12-606; new R6-12-610 renumbered from R6-12-6…