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Chapter: 1400 Technical Requirements Program: TCA 54 2. marriage licenses, divorce records or other court records which specify the relationship; 3. adoption papers; 4. hospital birth records or written statements of physicians or midwives who attended the births and remember the names of the people involved; 5. religious records; 6. written or oral statements of individuals in a position to know about the relationship; 7. census bureau records listing the children belonging to a particular family; 8. family bible or other family records which are written in ink and have not been altered (includes wills and deeds to property naming individuals and specifying relationships); 9. social agency records including those of DCF which are at least one year old and which consistently specify the degree of relationship. TCA is included under this provision; 10. juvenile court, other court, and hospital records; 11. insurance policies at least one year old in which relationship of the child to the individual is specified; 12. copies of income tax returns listing the child’s relationship; 13. school records which specify relationship; 14. an award letter or other acceptable evidence from SSA that RSDI payments have been awarded to a child based on his parent’s account; 15. trust documents or related documents; 16. military or veteran’s records; 17. USCIS, Indian Agency, or other government or agency records; or 18. newspaper records and local histories.

Specified relatives other than the mother or legal father who is under age 18 must have the “disability of non-age” removed legally in order to receive TCA.

Note: When the natural father resides with the mother, the eligibility specialist may mail a Request for Information form to him requesting that he contact the eligibility specialist within 10 days, if he is not the child’s father. If the natural father does not respond and the correspondence is not returned from the post office, the eligibility specialist can consider this to be his statement of paternity. 1420.0805 Definition of Living in the Home (TCA) The child must live on a continual basis in the home of the parent or specified relative. In cases where both parents are awarded joint custody and visitation provides for partial residence with each parent, living in the home may exist if the conditions as outlined in 1420.0719 are met. A home need not be a fixed dwelling. The home is considered the family setting shared by the parent/relative. This “home” may include a group facility such as a drug treatment center, spouse abuse center or maternity home. The parent/relative must assume and continue to take day-to- day care and responsibility for the child in this family setting. The type of facility, length of stay, setting for the child in the facility and responsibility for the child’s supervision and care must be carefully evaluated.

Individuals are not considered to be in a family setting or to be “living in the home” and are ineligible for assistance if they are:

1. inmates, prisoners, detainees, or convicts under detention or custody of a Federal, State, or local penal, correctional, or other detention facility or psychiatric facility or institution; or 2. in a licensed maternity home where their care is being paid for by the state.

For Title IV-E, a child born to a mother who is incarcerated or does not plan to bring the child home from the hospital, the technical factor of living in the home is considered met.