Resources - CA
Resources of the following participants are countable when determining eligibility for CA:
●All eligible participants included in the CA budgetary unit.
●Participants who are ineligible due to failure or refusal to comply with an eligibility requirement on their own behalf, or on behalf of another person.
●Mandatory CA participants disqualified for Intentional Program Violation (IPV).
●Parents of dependent children who are not included in the CA budgetary unit (BU) because they do not meet eligibility requirements (not as a result of failure or refusal to comply).
●Nonqualified noncitizen parents with CA children and siblings.
●Resources of mandatory CA participants who are CA cash ineligible due to Unwed Minor Parent (UMP) policy.
●Qualified noncitizen sponsor for the noncitizen until the noncitizen attains 40 quarters of coverage or becomes a citizen.
●A stepparent when both of the following apply to the stepparent:
The stepparent is not included in the CA budgetary unit.
The stepparent's spouse (the dependent child's parent) is in the home. (See
Stepparent Resources)
Resources of the following participants are not countable when determining eligibility for CA:
●Stepparents’ sole and separate resources when the stepparent is not included in the CA budgetary unit.
●Nonparent relatives who choose not to be included in the CA budgetary unit.
●Legal guardians, unless they are a specified relative who is included in the CA budgetary unit.
●Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients’ sole and separate property and any property that has been counted as a resource when eligibility for SSI was established.
●Dependent children for whom deprivation does not exist.
●Dependent children ineligible due to receipt of foster care payments.
For a list of Hopi Tribal TANF resource exceptions, see
Income and Resource Exceptions – Hopi Tribal TANF.