2025 Minnesota Statutes

142G.22 PROSPECTIVE MFIP ELIGIBILITY.

Subdivision 1.Determination of eligibility.

(a) A county agency must determine MFIP eligibility prospectively based on assessing income and the county agency's best estimate of the circumstances that will exist in the payment month.

(b) A county agency must calculate the amount of the assistance payment using prospective budgeting. To determine MFIP eligibility and the assistance payment amount, a county agency must apply countable income, described in sections 142G.31, subdivisions 5 to 12, and 256P.06, received by members of an assistance unit or by other persons whose income is counted for the assistance unit, described under sections 142G.31, subdivisions 1 to 4, and 256P.06, subdivision 1.

(c) This income must be applied to the MFIP standard of need or family wage level subject to this section and sections 142G.30, 142G.32, and 142G.33. Countable income as described in section 256P.06, subdivision 3, received must be applied to the needs of an assistance unit.

(d) An assistance unit is not eligible when the countable income equals or exceeds the MFIP standard of need or the family wage level for the assistance unit.

Subd. 2.Prospective eligibility.

An agency must determine whether the eligibility requirements that pertain to an assistance unit, including those in sections 142G.11 to 142G.15 and 256P.02, will be met prospectively for the payment period. The income test will be applied prospectively.

Subd. 3.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2023 c 70 art 10 s 98]

Subd. 4.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2023 c 70 art 10 s 98]

Subd. 5.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2023 c 70 art 10 s 98]

History:

1997 c 85 art 1 s 22; 1998 c 407 art 6 s 67,68; 1999 c 245 art 6 s 38; 2000 c 488 art 10 s 10; 2014 c 312 art 28 s 24; 2015 c 71 art 1 s 43; 1Sp2015 c 6 s 5; 1Sp2021 c 7 art 7 s 14,15; 2023 c 70 art 10 s 48,49; 2024 c 80 art 7 s 12