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

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Eligible families can receive the RX Kids Payments as a NRST under one of the following options: o Prenatal NRST is focused on maternal and infant health right around the birth of a child. This is a critical window for the health of moms and to be effective should be paid in the months pre and post birth. The NRST is meant to support moms before and right after the birth of a child.

o Infancy NRST would focus on the costs of new infants in families, a critical moment for families and meant to help with the incredible expenses of a new baby. A parent cannot receive the Infancy NRST payments for the newborn if the parent received the Prenatal NRST payments while pregnant with the newborn.

• FIP Fraud Replacement – Non-recurrent, short-term (NRST) cash payments issued to individuals that lost their FIP benefits as a result of theft. Eligible groups can receive up to four months of their approved FIP grant. To be eligible for this program, the group must currently be receiving FIP.

• Security Deposit Assistance – Provides funding to Michigan State Housing Development Authority to assist families with the first month’s rent and security deposit for housing in the form of a non-recurrent, short-term benefit to not exceed four months. To qualify the child must be a recipient of at least one of the following: FIP, Medicaid, Food Assistance Program, or Child Development and Care or their income must be no more than 200% of the poverty level.

The following services are intended to prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies. For programs claimed as TANF, there is no financial eligibility test. For programs claimed as TANF-MOE, all services must benefit needy families, defined as income less than 200% of the poverty level unless otherwise specified for the program. Other eligibility requirements may vary.

• Programs Targeted Toward “At-Risk” Youth – Provides after school programming, mentorship opportunities, summer employment and other supervised support programs and that increase motivation and self-esteem, and provide additional educational opportunities for at-risk youth including youth with low achievement on state- or local-administered assessments in mathematics, English language, arts, social studies or science; failure to meet proficiency standards in reading by the end of 3rd grade or career and college readiness for high school students at the end of 12th grade; a victim of child abuse or neglect; is a pregnant teenager or teenage parent; has a family history of school failure, incarceration or substance use; is a pupil in a priority