QUESTION
Are shopping letters automatically renewed for public assistance recipients working more than 10 hours a week, and how does policy affect this?
1:42:31
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Automatic renewal of shopping letters for public assistance recipients depends on meeting base eligibility criteria or unchanged circumstances, with clarification provided by Commissioner Park.
- Automatic renewal occurs for individuals who meet the base eligibility criteria of working more than 10 hours a week on public assistance.
- Those under exception categories or with changed circumstances require agency action for renewal.
- A 2021 policy indicates shopping letters are not automatically renewed, prompting questions about subsequent policies.
- Commissioner Park clarifies that qualifying clients do not need to take action for renewal if they meet eligibility criteria.
- The term 'automatic' may be interpreted differently, but thorough eligibility assessment ensures appropriate renewal.
Diana I. Ayala
1:42:31
Are they automatic?
1:42:32
I don't really
Molly Wasow Park
1:42:33
So for somebody whose eligibility has just been maintained, so they were sort of base eligibility criteria on public assistance working you know, more than 10 hours a week, that will be an automatic renewal.
1:42:46
If it was under one of the exception categories, that will require the agency to take some action assuming they still maintain those exception categories.
Diana I. Ayala
1:42:55
Okay.
1:42:56
Because according to the policy bulletin of 2021 dash 0 or 9.
1:43:01
Shopping letters are not automatically renewed.
1:43:03
Is there a subsequent overriding policy bulletin?
Molly Wasow Park
1:43:07
So it's not automatically renewed if your circumstances have changed.
1:43:13
Right?
1:43:13
So the fact that you had a had a shopping letter yesterday doesn't automatically mean you have a shopping letter today.
1:43:21
But if you're if you would have qualified for a new shopping letter because you are still meeting all the eligibility criteria, that is then it will be renewed for you.
1:43:34
You don't you as a client, don't need to take option.
1:43:37
So I I think it's maybe we're using the word automatic differently.
1:43:41
Mhmm.
1:43:42
But in it, we are gonna relook at the eligibility criteria, but assuming you meet them, it does happen.
Diana I. Ayala
1:43:49
Okay.
1:43:49
Alright.
1:43:51
I'm gonna leave it there.
1:43:52
I just wanted to know that I did see as part of the the the pegs.
