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TANF STATE PLAN STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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participation activities are a pre-condition of assistance for work eligible individuals, Michigan does not include verbiage to specify that engagement is required once a parent has received 24 months of assistance.

If any member of the applicant group who is required to participate in orientation, AEP, employment-related/barrier removal activities, and/or family self-sufficiency activities fails to participate without good cause, the family’s FIP application is denied.

1. Temporary Deferrals

Some clients may be deferred from the work participation program for a time, but will be required to participate in the work participation program if their circumstances change so that they are no longer deferred.

Deferred clients may be one of the following:

• Under age 16.

• Age 65 or older.

• The parent of a child under the age of 2 months.

• An individual with a short-term mental or physical illness, limitation, or disability that severely limits the ability to participate for up to 90 days.

• An individual claiming a mental or physical illness, limitation, or disability that severely limits the ability to participate for more than 90 days for the period in which the disability is being established.

• An individual with a physical or mental disability that meets SSI disability criteria, or meets SSI disability criteria except for duration.

• A doctor verifies all of the following:

o A child with disabilities requires a parent caretaker due to the extent of the disability.

o The parent is needed in the home to provide care. o The parent of the child cannot engage in employment activities due to the extent of care required.

• A doctor verifies all of the following: