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

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Michigan also denies assistance to a group that includes an adult who must be included in the group and has accumulated 60 months of TANF funded cash assistance, beginning October 1, 1996, or exceeded any other time limits in FIP.

6. Minor Parents Minor parents must live with a parent, stepparent, or legal guardian or have good cause not to do so. If the minor parent has good cause not to live with a parent, stepparent, or legal guardian, the minor parent and child must live in another adult- supervised living arrangement to be eligible. Minor parents who have not completed high school must attend school full-time as a condition of eligibility.

Good cause for not living with a parent, stepparent, or legal guardian includes:

• The minor parent is living with another adult relative with parental consent.

• There is no living parent, stepparent, or legal guardian whose whereabouts are known.

• The parent, stepparent, or legal guardian will not allow the minor parent to live in his or her home.

• The physical or emotional health or safety of the minor parent or child would be jeopardized if they lived with the parent, stepparent, or legal guardian.

• The minor parent is participating in a licensed substance use treatment program which would no longer be available if he/she returned to the parent, stepparent, or legal guardian’s home.

• The parent, stepparent, or legal guardian lives in another state. 7. Caretaker A dependent child must live with a caretaker. The caretaker must be a parent, stepparent, other relative, or an unrelated legal guardian or person age 21 or over who has a petition for legal guardianship of the child pending. Assistance is state funded for families in which the caretaker is disabled, or in which multiple, parent caretakers live with the eligible children or in which the caretaker is not related to any of the eligible children.

When a dependent child has multiple caretakers who do not live together, only the primary caretaker can receive assistance for that child. The primary caretaker is the caretaker who has primary responsibility for the child’s day-to-day care and supervision in the home where the child sleeps more than half of the days of the month, averaged over the most recent 12-month period.