The financial group refers to the individuals whose income and resources are counted or deemed when determining the assistance group's eligibility for the product delivery. Financial group members can be household members or individuals who are not household members but who have a case participant role of one of:
The financial group is determined during the execution of the program eligibility rules. The financial group may change over the lifetime of the case as case participants are added or removed, or become eligible or ineligible. Subsequent execution of the eligibility rules for the specific program may result in a new financial group being created where the existing financial group composition changes.