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“Helping People Living Better Lives”

| pg. 459 • A child out of the home for a visit not to exceed three months. • Emergency situations that deprive the child of a parent, relative, guardian, or conservator’s care (may not continue beyond three months except in case of extended hospitalization). If the child is living with a relative, the relative must be a father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, second cousin, nephew, or niece. These relatives may be half blood, related by adoption, or from a preceding generation. A child may also live with the spouse of any persons previously named even after death or divorce has terminated the marriage. The child may also live with a court appointed guardian or conservator. The needs of the parent(s), needy caretaker relative, guardian or conservator may be included in the ADC financial payment. To be eligible they shall: • Assign support rights to DHHS; • Cooperate with the Child Support Enforcement Unit; • Live with the child in a place of residence they maintain; • Be in need, as determined by assistance requirements and standards; • Cooperate in developing and completing a Self–Sufficiency Contract; and, • Not be eligible for the Aid to the Aged, Blind and Disabled (AABD) program. If there is more than one child in the household of a non–relative, all children for whom assistance is requested must be included in a single grant unit and budgeted accordingly. Deprivation of parental support or care is not an eligibility requirement. Unmarried parents living together as a family shall be considered a family unit when paternity for the child(ren) has been acknowledged or established. When unmarried parents are living as a family, and one parent is ineligible, the ineligible parent and their child(ren) are not included in the ADC unit. If otherwise financially eligible, the other parent, and any children not shared with the ineligible parent, may continue to receive ADC cash assistance. Eligibility for ADC cash assistance must be redetermined every six months. A family will be eligible for financial assistance and services if: • The family’s countable income is under the standards in effect on July 1, 2013, adjusted biennially using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the previous two years; and, • Countable resources do not exceed $4,000 for a single individual and $6,000 for two or more. Any person convicted in federal or state court of having fraudulently misrepresented their residence in order to obtain assistance in two or more states is ineligible for ADC cash assistance for ten years from the date of conviction. An individual is ineligible for ADC cash assistance during any period in which the individual is: • Fleeing to avoid prosecution or custody or confinement after conviction for a crime or attempt to commit a crime that is a felony under the law of the place from which the individual is fleeing; or • Violating a condition of federal or state probation or parole.