63.2-609 - VIEW exemptions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 63.2-609. VIEW exemptions.

The following TANF recipients shall be exempt from mandatory participation inVIEW and shall remain eligible for TANF financial assistance:

1. Any individual, including all minor caretakers, under sixteen years of age;

2. Any individual at least sixteen, but no more than nineteen years of age,who is enrolled full-time in elementary or secondary school, including careerand technical education programs. The career and technical education programmust be equivalent to secondary school. Whenever feasible, such recipientsshould participate in summer work;

3. Any individual who is unable to participate because of a temporary medicalcondition that is preventing employment or training, as determined by aphysician or other qualified medical professional and certified by a writtenmedical statement. Such an exemption shall be reevaluated every sixty days todetermine whether the person is still exempt;

4. Any individual who is disabled, as determined by receipt of SocialSecurity Disability Benefits or Supplemental Security Income;

5. Any individual sixty years of age or older;

6. Any individual who is the sole caregiver of another member of thehousehold who is disabled as determined by receipt of Social SecurityDisability Benefits or Supplemental Security Income or who is incapacitatedby another condition as determined by the Board and whose presence isessential for the care of the other member on a substantially continuousbasis;

7. A parent or caretaker-relative of a child under 12 months of age whopersonally provides care for the child. A parent of a child not consideredpart of the TANF public assistance unit under § 63.2-604 may be granted atemporary exemption of not more than six weeks after the birth of such child.

In a TANF-UP case, both parents shall be referred for participation unlessone meets an exemption; only one parent can be exempt. If both parents meetan exemption criterion, they shall decide who will be referred forparticipation.

(1994, cc. 858, 951, §§ 63.1-133.43, 63.1-133.48; 1995, c. 450; 2001, c. 483;2002, cc. 81, 747; 2007, c. 568.)