8.5 Disenrollment

The primary reasons for disenrolling a participant from the FSET program include:

A participant met the work requirement by obtaining unsubsidized employment for 80 hours per month, has been verified to be an exempt ABAWD, and does not choose to participate in job retention services. Disenrollment should not occur while a participant is receiving job retention services for a job obtained as a result of participating in FSET.

Note: A participant is eligible to receive up to 90 days of job retention services through FSET even if s/he is no longer eligible for FoodShare (FS).

If an FSET participant loses FoodShare eligibility, the FSET agencies must not disenroll FoodShare ineligible participants until after the sixth (6th) day of the month following the month FoodShare closed. On the referral update, the effective date displays the date FoodShare eligibility ends. Disenrollment of a FoodShare ineligible participant must be completed no later than the last day of the month following the month FoodShare eligibility was lost and FoodShare closed. Information in CARES Worker Web (CWW) may show that FoodShare is scheduled to close because the FoodShare interview or other requirements were completed prior to adverse action. FoodShare may reopen within the same month or the following month.

Non-ABAWD or exempt ABAWD non-participation in FSET for two months without good cause (this disenrollment reason does not apply to non-exempt ABAWDs);

Non-ABAWD or exempt ABAWD requests to end services (this disenrollment reason does not apply to non-exempt ABAWDs); or

Participant moves from the pilot region to a non-pilot region of the state between July 1, 2014 and April 1, 2015. In these cases, disenrollment from the CWW FSET Tool is required even if the participant chooses to continue participating in FSET after moving out of the pilot region. The disenrollment code to use in this circumstance is MP-Moved Out of Pilot Region.

FSET disenrollment is completed on the Participant Summary page in the CWW FSET Tool.

Note: FoodShare will be systematically scheduled to close at adverse action when required action for a review or Six Month Report Form (SMRF) was pending action, including pending verification. If the member completes the necessary action to reopen FoodShare benefits, an updated referral will be sent to the FSET worker showing that the participant is again eligible.

Note: Prior to disenrolling a volunteer for non-participation, the worker must attempt to make contact by letter or telephone to determine why the individual is not participating and to determine if the employment plan (EP) should be revised to include different services.

This page last updated in Release Number: 15-01

Release Date: 02/26/15

Effective Date: 02/26/15