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considered to be financially responsible for SR group members: • Spouse for his/her spouse when they are living in the same home, • Spouse for his/her spouse when both are applicants for or recipients of SSI and cease to live together, (Note: If spouses cease to live together because of the institutionalization or hospitalization of one spouse, their assets are considered as available to each for the first 30 days of hospitalization/institutionalization. After this 30-day period, only the assets that are actually contributed by one spouse to the other are considered.) • Parent for his/her unmarried child under age 21 when they are living in the same home. If a child is separated from his/her parent(s) due to institutionalization or hospitalization, the parents' assets are considered available to the child for the first 30 days of the separation. After this period, only assets actually contributed by the parent(s) are considered. The deemed amounts of the spouse's assets are considered available to the assistance unit whether or not the assistance unit actually receives them. The amount of assets to be deemed is the spouse's total countable assets, determined in accordance with the SR policies governing countable and non-countable assets. If any assets are deemed, the size of the assistance unit is increased by one for the comparison of the assistance unit's total countable assets to the appropriate asset limitation. Assets are deemed whether or not any income is deemed. When a financially responsible parent is not a member of the SR assistance unit, the parent's assets must be deemed to the assistance unit. The deemed amounts of the parent's assets are considered available to the assistance unit whether or not the assistance unit actually receives them. The amount of assets to be deemed is the parent's total countable assets in excess of the SSI asset limitation for the number of parents involved. The parent's total countable assets are determined in accordance with the SR policies governing countable and non-countable assets. Assets are deemed whether or not any income is deemed. QM: See SR MC: See AR. TANF Include all countable assets of a parent living in the home (except parents receiving SSI), whether or not the parent is in the unit, and all assets of an otherwise mandatory group member who is disqualified from receiving TANF. Disqualified individuals include those individuals excluded due to immigration status, failure to comply with program requirements, or an IPV. GC Do not deem any assets from non-group members. FS Persons may live with the FS group or applicant group who are not group members. The resources of a non-group member are counted in their entirety if the non-group member purchases and prepares food with the FS household and has been disqualified or determined ineligible because of: • an IPV • failure to participate in FSET • failure to provide an SSN, or