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Reporting Instructions: CORe Code 2109

TANF Eligibility Reporting

W-2 Agencies must first pool all eligibility costs (including W-2 Front End Verification (FEV) costs) for the month, excluding Emergency Assistance (EA) Eligibility and Refugee Cash & Medical Assistance (RCMA) Eligibility costs. (EA Eligibility costs should be reported on CORe code 2110 for private agencies and 8110 for county agencies. RCMA Eligibility costs should be reported on CORe code 0133 for private agencies and 8133 for county agencies).

DWD publishes W-2 & IM Eligibility Percentages for all geographic areas covered by County W-2 Agencies. These percentages are used to separate out the W-2 portion of the eligibility cost pool.

Once agencies have their pool of W-2 eligibility costs they need to look up their TANF Eligibility Percentage for the month they are reporting on to calculate the cost that should be reported on this reporting code (County agencies will report these costs on CORe code 8109).

Agencies may opt to use the prior month's percentages, but must be consistent in using either current month or prior month data.

The TANF Eligibility Percentages web page contains a link for each month. Agencies should access the month they are reporting on, take the TANF percentage listed for their agency and multiply that percentage against the W-2 Eligibility cost pool. The product amount should be reported on this CORe code (County agencies use 8109) with the remaining cost to be reported on CORe code 2203, W-2 Child Care Eligibility (County agencies use 8203).

The costs reported on this CORe code (and CORe code 8109) will be charged against your W-2 Administration funding, CORe Contract code 2100.