36 Month Time Frames 430-05-40-50-15

(Revised 01/01/04 ML2893)

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The 36 month time frame is established on a rolling calendar and is used for all non-exempt individuals.

 

36 Month Look Back Period

A worker must look back 36 months beginning with the month prior to the current month to determine if and when any ABAWD months were used.

 

Start Date

The 36-month rolling calendar begins for an individual with the first ABAWD month within the 36-month look back period. The 36-month rolling calendar progresses with each passing month and continues uninterrupted even while the individual is not participating.

 

Examples:

  1. An individual applies on March 1, 2000 and is not exempt from the ABAWD provisions. The worker must look back from February 2000, 36 months (March 1997). The individual used the first ABAWD month in June 1997, therefore, June of 1997 starts the 36-month period (rolling clock). The 36-month period would end June 2000.

If June 1997 was the only ABAWD month used, the 36-month period ends June 30, 2000. The individual could be eligible for any two ABAWD months, March through June 2000.

 

If the individual received ABAWD months in June, July, August 1997, the 36-month period ends June 30, 2000. The individual is not eligible for additional ABAWD months until July 2000. The worker would explore possible eligibility for the extended three-month benefit period.

  1. An individual applies March 1, 2000, and is not exempt from the ABAWD provisions. The individual received ABAWD months in June, September, and December 1997. The 36-month period starts June 1997 and ends June 30, 2000.

The individual has already received three ABAWD months and is not eligible. The worker would have to explore possible eligibility for the extended three-month benefit period.

 

If the individual is not eligible for the extended three-month benefit period, the application must be denied.

 

This individual would be eligible for July 2000 when June 1997 drops off. If the individual applied in July the application would be approved for July and closed as the individual is not eligible for August.

 

This individual would again be eligible for October 2000 when September 1997 drops off.

 

This individual would again be eligible for January 2001 when December 1997 drops off.

 

The individual has received three ABAWD months (July 2000, October 2000 and January 2001) for the new 36-month period from July 2000 to July 2003.