- (1) This rule governs lump sum payments for purposes of TANF cash assistance.
- (2) Lump sum payments are payments of a nonrecurring sum of earned or unearned income.
- (3) The assistance unit may lose eligibility for one or more months if, when the lump sum payment is added to all other countable resources, the total exceeds the $3,000 resource limitation. The household will be ineligible as long as the total countable resources exceed the $3,000 resource limitation.
Authorizing statute(s): 53-4-212, MCA
Implementing statute(s): 53-4-211, 53-4-601, MCA
History: NEW, 1996 MAR p. 284, Eff. 1/26/96; AMD, 1998 MAR p. 3284, Eff. 12/18/98; TRANS, from SRS, 2000 MAR p. 3414; AMD, 2003 MAR p. 15, Eff. 1/17/03.