§ 63.2-608. Virginia Initiative for Education and Work (VIEW)
A. The Department shall establish and administer the Virginia Initiative for Education and Work (VIEW) to reduce long-term dependence on welfare, emphasize personal responsibility, and enhance opportunities for personal initiative and self-sufficiency by promoting the value of work. The Department shall endeavor to develop placements for VIEW participants that will enable participants to develop job […]
§ 63.2-609. VIEW exemptions
The following TANF recipients shall be exempt from mandatory participation in VIEW and shall remain eligible for TANF financial assistance: 1. Any individual, including all minor caretakers, under 16 years of age; 2. Any individual at least 16, but no more than 19 years of age, who is enrolled full time in elementary or secondary […]
§ 63.2-610. Participation in VIEW; coordinated services
A. In administering VIEW, the Department shall ensure that local departments provide delivery and coordination of all services through intensive case management. VIEW participants shall be referred to a case manager. The case manager shall fully explain VIEW to the participant and shall provide the participant with written materials explaining VIEW. B. The Department shall […]
§ 63.2-611. Case management; support services; transitional support services
A. The Commissioner, through the local departments, with such funds as appropriated, shall offer families participating in VIEW intensive case management services throughout the family’s participation in VIEW. Case management services shall include initial assessment of the full range of services that will be needed by each family including testing and evaluation, development of the […]
§ 63.2-606. Eligibility for TANF; school attendance
In order to be eligible for TANF, members of the assistance unit, including minor custodial parents, shall be in compliance with compulsory school attendance laws (§ 22.1-254 et seq.). The Board shall adopt regulations to implement the provisions of this section, including procedures for local departments to (i) receive notification from local school divisions of […]
§ 63.2-607. Eligibility for TANF; minor parent residency
A. Except as provided in subsection B, an unemancipated minor custodial parent may receive TANF for himself and his child only if the individual and his child reside in the home maintained by his parent or person standing in loco parentis. For purposes of TANF eligibility determination, a minor who receives government-provided public assistance is […]
§ 63.2-607.1. Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies
A person who is otherwise eligible to receive TANF assistance shall be exempt from the application of § 115(a)(1) of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, P.L. 104-193, and shall not be denied such assistance solely because he has been convicted of a drug-related felony. 2020, cc. 221, 361.
§ 63.2-603. Eligibility for TANF; childhood immunizations
An applicant for TANF shall provide verification that all eligible children not enrolled in school, a licensed family day home as defined in § 22.1-289.02, or a licensed child day center as defined in § 22.1-289.02, have received immunizations in accordance with § 32.1-46. However, if an eligible child has not received immunizations in accordance […]
§ 63.2-604. Repealed
Repealed by Acts 2020, c. 550, cl. 2.
§ 63.2-605. Eligibility for TANF; parolees and probationers who fail drug tests
Upon receipt of notification from a probation or parole officer that a TANF caretaker under his supervision has failed a drug test, the local department shall provide future TANF cash benefits to such caretaker’s assistance unit as protective or vendor payments to a third party payee for the benefit of the assistance unit. After twelve […]