---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 233.34"
title: "45"
number: "233.34"
heading: "Computing the assistance payment in the initial one or two months (AFDC)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/233.34"
---

# §233.34. Computing the assistance payment in the initial one or two months (AFDC).


A State shall compute the amount of the AFDC payment for the initial month of eligibility:

- (a) Prospectively (except as in paragraphs [(b)](#b) and [(c)](#c) of this section); or
- (b) Retrospectively if the applicant received assistance (or would have except for the prohibition on payments of less than $10) for the immediately preceding payment month (except where the State pays the second month after application prospectively); or
- (c) **Retrospectively if—**
  - (1) Assistance had been suspended as defined in [paragraph (d)](#d) of this section; and
  - (2) The initial month follows the month of suspension; and
  - (3) The family's circumstances for the initial month had not changed significantly from those reported in the corresponding budget month, e.g., loss of job.
- (d) A State may suspend, rather than terminate, assistance when:
  - (1) The agency has knowledge of, or reason to believe that ineligibility would be only for one payment month; and
  - (2) Ineligibility for that one payment month was caused by income or other circumstances in the corresponding budget month.
- (e) If the initial month is computed prospectively as in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, the second month shall be prospective if the State elects a 2-month retrospective budgeting system.

## Notes

### Amendments

[47 FR 5679, Feb. 5, 1982]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 301, 602, 602 (note), 606, 607, 1202, 1302, 1352, and 1382 (note).

### Amendments

[47 FR 5679, Feb. 5, 1982]