1. (a) The advance notice period (ANP) shall be one of the following:

   1. (1) Five calendar days when terminating or reducing benefits due to fraud;
   2. (2) Ten calendar days before the date of action to discontinue, terminate, suspend, or reduce assistance; or
   3. (3) Thirty calendar days when the action is the result of information obtained from a United States internal revenue service crossmatch report.
2. (b) Changes in assistance group (AG) circumstances that occur or are reported during an ANP shall not be processed until the ANP has expired.

3. (c) The department shall not provide an ANP, in accordance with 45 CFR 205.10(a)(4)(ii), when:

   1. (1) Factual information confirms the death of a recipient or of the financial assistance to needy families (FANF) payee and there is no relative available to serve as payee;
   2. (2) A recipient provides a written, dated, and signed request to terminate assistance or gives written information which will result in the termination or decrease in the level of eligibility or amount of assistance;
   3. (3) A recipient has been admitted or committed to an institution and is no longer eligible for assistance;
   4. (4) A recipient’s location is unknown and the department’s mail is returned by the postal service indicating no forwarding address is on file;
   5. (5) The recipient has been accepted for assistance in another state;
   6. (6) A recipient is placed in a nursing facility or requires long term hospitalization;
   7. (7) All recipients in the AG have died;
   8. (8) A recipient has been receiving a positive grant adjustment and the adjustment period is complete;
   9. (9) A recipient requests in writing to voluntarily initiate, change, or remove a vendor payee, or to change the amount of the vendor payment;
   10. (10) A recipient or AG is closed in one case and opened in another, and the eligibility level and benefit amount remain the same; and
   11. (11) A child is removed from the home as a result of a judicial determination or is voluntarily placed in foster care by the child’s legal guardian.

Source. (See Revision Note #1 at Chapter Heading He-W 600) #5171, eff 6-26-91; ss by #6531, INTERIM, eff 6-27-97, EXPIRES: 10-25-97; ss by #6614, eff 10-24-97; amd by #8452, eff 10-22-05; ss by #10471, eff 11-26-13; ss by #13765, eff 10-5-23