TO:	Commissioners; TA Directors; FS Directors; Staff Development Coordinators

FROM:	Patricia A. Stevens, Deputy Commissioner
	Division of Temporary Assistance/WMS

SUBJECT:	Requirement to send the LDSS 4753 FS "Request for Contact/Notice of Missed Interview" when an initial FS eligibility interview is missed
EFFECTIVE DATE:	Immediately

CONTACT PERSON:	Eastern Regional Team @ 1-800-343-8859 ext. 3-1469

Districts were advised in 01 ADM-08 of the need to send the LDSS 4753: "Request for Contact/Notice of Missed Interview" when temporary assistance food stamp (TA/FS) and non-temporary assistance food stamp (Non-TA/FS) clients miss their eligibility appointments, reminding clients of their responsibility to reschedule their missed interview. Districts were instructed that this notice was optional at initial eligibility pending finalization of federal rules. 

This is to inform Districts that the federal rule was recently finalized making the LDSS 4753: "Request for Contact/Notice of Missed Interview" a requirement when an applicant misses his/her initial eligibility interview. 

There has been no change to the requirement to send the LDSS 4753: "Request for Contact/Notice of Missed Interview" at recertification.  As outlined in 01 ADM-08, Districts were required to send this notice at recertification if the client had submitted his/her application for recertification but subsequently missed his/her recertification interview.

The July 3rd and July 30th, 2001 Dear WMS/CNS Coordinator Letters introduced new CNS codes Z97 and Z98 and provided additional information on the use of these codes to generate the LDSS 4753 FS "Request for Contact/Notice of Missed Interview".