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

Page 9 Effective Date: January 1, 2020 • There is no living parent, stepparent, or legal guardian whose whereabouts is 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 abuse 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. 8. Age and School Attendance A dependent child must be under age 18, or age 18 and attending high school or a high school equivalency program full-time.

Dependent children who are age 6 through 17 must attend school full-time. 9. Immunizations Children under age 6 must receive scheduled immunizations. At redetermination, twenty-five dollars per month is deducted from the family’s payment standard for failure to have one or more children under age 6 immunized according to schedule. Families may be exempt under certain circumstances.