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

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• Information and Referral Services – Services that connect people with information and resources about health and human service programs and services available in the community.

The following services have different financial eligibility requirements:

• Adoption Assistance – Provides payments to families for adoptive children with special needs. These payments are intended to facilitate the adoption of children with special needs by removing financial barriers for the adoptive families and allowing these children to be cared for in the home of the adoptive parents. This is a benefit provided on behalf of an eligible child with special needs and is not intended to meet the ongoing basic needs of the family. Family income must be less than 500% of the poverty level and the child must not be eligible for Title IV-E adoption assistance. TANF funding of these payments begins after the adoption is finalized. To continue eligibility, the family must complete an annual redetermination.

The following information only needs to be verified at the initial eligibility:

1. Income. 2. Social Security numbers. 3. Criminal background checks. 4. Citizenship validation.

• Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – A tax credit based on the federal EITC; providing a state refundable credit equal to a percentage of the refundable portion of the filer’s federal EITC. The MI EITC is refundable, with the refundable portion being the credit that is in excess of a filer’s total state tax liability. Eligibility for the MI EITC follows the federal EITC, and thus, has the same income, age, residency, and presence of qualifying children parameters.

• Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency, Inc., School Success Partnership Program – Serves school-aged children and youth from Pre- Kindergarten through 12th grade who are at risk for academic failure. School Success workers provide ongoing supportive services to students, parents, and teachers by managing students’ problem areas with specific short and long- term goals. These services could include individual and group counseling, academic activities, developing parenting skills, and working on consistent communication with teachers. Students eligible for the School Success Partnership Program must be experiencing barriers or conditions that threaten academic success, attending one of the 16 participating schools within the nine covered northeast Michigan counties served and qualify for the free or reduced- priced school meals program, which is under 185% of the poverty level.