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

Page 18 Effective Date: January 1, 2017  Disaster Relief Program – A lump sum, non-recurring benefit paid to families who have been evacuated from their homes due to a natural or technological disaster and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued a major disaster declaration for the area that includes their normal residence.

 Direct Support Services - Services to support employment or employment-related activities or enhance self-sufficiency. Such services include, but are not limited to: job search services, transportation services, purchase or repairs of cars, purchase of tools, uniforms or work clothes, and various local projects identified by local MDHHS offices as needed to overcome barriers to self-sufficiency.

 Emergency Relief - Provides emergency assistance to families to help them obtain safe and affordable shelter and other essentials when the family faces an emergency due to factors beyond their control. Assistance includes relocation services, home ownership services and home repairs, and utility restoration or shut- off prevention.

Emergency Relief also provides emergency foster family care or residential group care for children separated from their parents if such care cannot be provided under Title IV-E. Emergency services are limited to the duration of the emergency, not to exceed 364 days.

 Emergency Shelter – Funds contracted with emergency shelter providers to provide shelter to homeless families and youth.

 Food & Nutrition - Hunger Relief Provided Through:  The distribution of emergency food assistance to families through food banks.  Cash assistance loaded on Bridge cards for SNAP families with children residing in Flint, Michigan for the purpose of providing additional nutritious foods to youth impacted by the water emergency.

 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 Medical Subsidy – Assists adoptive families with non-medical expenses that result from a physical, mental, or emotional condition that existed or the cause of which existed prior to the adoption, and are not covered by other public or private resources (e.g., Medicaid, Children’s Special Health Care Services, an Intermediate School District, or health insurance). TANF funding of these payments begins after the adoption is finalized.

 Adoption Assistance – Provides payments to families of 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. Family