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Minnesota Family Investment Program Minnesota House Research Department Page 17 MFIP Assistance Standards (Effective October 1, 2024) Family Size Full Transitional Standard Food Portion Cash Portion 1 $661 $242 $419 2 1,087 445 642 3 1,394 638 756 4 1,675 814 861 5 1,933 981 952 6 2,238 1,195 1,043 7 2,435 1,301 1,134 8 2,695 1,481 1,214 9 2,951 1,661 1,290 10 3,201 1,844 1,357 over 10 (add for each additional member) 249 185 64

“Opting Out” of the Cash Portion of MFIP Grant The 1998 Legislature amended the MFIP law to allow an MFIP family to choose to discontinue receiving the cash portion of their MFIP grant. Once a family does not receive the cash portion of the MFIP grant, their subsequent months on MFIP do not count towards the family’s 60-month lifetime limit on assistance. However, the family still receives the other benefits of MFIP, such as the MFIP food portion and MFIP Child Care Assistance; the other requirements of MFIP still apply to the family. MFIP benefits are vendor paid 28 for persons convicted of a felony drug offense committed during the previous ten years from the date of application. These individuals may also be subject to random drug testing.29

28 “Vendor payment” means a payment authorized by a county agency to a vendor. (See Minn. Stat. § 142G.02, subd. 100.) 29 See Minn. Stat. § 142G.18.