Changes which affect your program eligibility must be reported to the Department of Social Services within 10 days. You can report these changes to your worker by telephone, fax or you can mail verification to your worker explaining these changes. For specific information on Regional Office locations and hours to report changes, please follow this link. 

 

Be sure to include your name, client ID number and the name of your worker on all correspondence.  Your worker may ask you to send in verifications of these changes. When in doubt about reporting a change, contact your worker. 

Examples of changes you should report are:

 

Changes in income

 

You start employment
You change employers
You end employment
You start to receive unemployment compensation

Your unemployment compensation ends
You start to receive social security
You start to receive child support payments
Any other changes in income over $100.00 per month

 

Changes in living arrangements 

 

Someone moves into your household

Someone moves out of your household

You move
You get married
You get divorced
You become pregnant

You give birth
You enter a drug treatment program, rehabitational facility or hospital for over 30 days

 

Other changes 

 

You receive an inheritance

You receive a lawsuit settlement
You open or close a bank account
You buy or register a motor vehicle
You enroll in school, change schools, quit or graduate