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Montana State Plan for the 6 TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAM

Full Plan #25 Effective 01/01/2024 Supersedes #2 01/01/2021. funded by MOE and federal dollars. The funds may be used on, but are not limited to:

o Post-secondary education o Specialized training o Subsidized employment o Financial literacy o Matched savings and Individual Development Accounts (IDA) o Service brokering o Supportive services, and o Other allowable services, on an as need basis, to help individuals and families become stable, able to work and financially secure. 5. Effective August 1, 2007, Montana implemented a Working Caretaker Relative Child Care Program. This program was the result of legislation contained in HB- 2 of the 2007 Montana Legislative Session. This program is designed to assist specified caretaker relatives who are receiving child only TANF grants with childcare costs associated with the minor child(ren) for whom they are receiving TANF cash assistance. To qualify for the program, the specified caretaker relative must: o Pay a $75 per month co-pay (Effective November 1, 2018) o Be receiving child only TANF for a minor child or children. o Be employed as defined by the state. o Complete the application packet for the program and submit it to the Child Care Resource and Referral agency; and o Beginning October 1, 2009, meet the income eligibility requirement of 250% of the current FPL. 6. Emergency Assistance program provides financial assistance on behalf of families with children under age 21 when an unforeseen event causes or threatens to cause the destitution of the child and/or situations where child abuse and/or neglect of a child has occurred or may occur in the immediate future. This eligibility is the same as that found in the State Emergency Assistance Plan that was in effect as of August 21, 1996. Section 3 of Montana’s AFDC State Plan in effect 8/21/96 is attached. 7. The TANF service for Montana is a TANF Information & Referral (I & R) brochure which provides information and referrals to other agencies, programs, organizations and/or community resources that could benefit the entire SNAP household. SNAP federal regulations allow expanding categorical eligibility for SNAP if all members participate in a program, receive a service, or are authorized to receive a service.

If any household member receives the TANF I & R brochure, the whole household may be found expanded categorically eligible because the whole