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COMBINED MANUAL

ISSUE DATE 12/2018

STATE RESIDENCE - 30-DAY REQUIREMENT

0011.06.09

The following are EXCEPTIONS to the 30 day residency requirement:

● Your agency determines there is an unusual hardship because the unit is without alternative shelter.

● For units that live in Duluth Superior, Fargo Moorhead, Grand Forks, La Crosse, Rochester, and St. Cloud metropolitan statistical areas: Alternative shelter is any shelter located within that metropolitan statistical area containing the county and for which the unit is eligible, provided the unit does not have to travel more than 20 miles to reach the shelter and has access to transportation to the shelter. This definition DOES NOT apply to counties in the Minneapolis St. Paul metropolitan statistical area.

● Your agency determines there is an unusual hardship because the unit is without available resources for food.

● The client is a migrant worker, whose assistance unit members received at least $1,000 in gross wages earned in Minnesota within the previous 12 months. This applies whether the income was previously budgeted toward public assistance or not. See MIGRANT WORKER in 0002.41 (Glossary: Medically Necessary...).

Intent to remain does NOT apply to migrants, whether or not they are exempt from the 30 day residency requirement.

● People who enter Minnesota for other reasons, have lived in the state for less than 30 days, and then enter a domestic violence shelter are NOT eligible for cash assistance. Eligibility for cash begins on the 31st day of living in Minnesota.