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State of New Hampshire

TANF State Plan

36 New Hampshire State Plan Effective October 2023 ATTACHMENT D NEW HAMPSHIRE ELIGIBILITY FOR EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE TO NEEDY FAMLIES WITH CHILDREN - AUTHORIZED SOLELY UNDER PRIOR LAW

KINDS OF EMERGENCIES COVERED

The following emergencies are covered, provided that the emergency has not been caused by a child's or relative's refusal without good cause to accept employment or training for employment.

1. EA Housing Benefits: Homelessness, eviction, potential eviction, foreclosure, potential foreclosure, unsafe or unhealthy housing, utility shut-off, and lack of electricity, heat, hot water, or cooking fuel whenever a family is experiencing or is in imminent danger of these conditions.

2. EA Family Preservation and Support Benefits: Abuse, neglect, or abandonment of children; imminent risk of a child's removal from the home; or urgent situation where continued presence in the home is not in the best interest of the child.

KINDS OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO MEET EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

1. EA Housing Benefits: Payments for rental security deposits to attain, or rental or mortgage (principal and interest only) arrearages to retain, affordable, safe, and healthy housing. Also, payments for utility deposits, utility arrearages, and deliveries of home heating fuel to provide the family with electricity, heat, hot water, or fuel for cooking. Payments are made through vendor payments only. Dollar caps (for deposits and fuel deliveries) and coverage periods (for arrearages) are set through rulemaking under the state's Administrative Procedures Act. Vendors are requested to return deposits to the Division. Payment of the daily bed rate for the temporary or transitional housing for a maximum 364-day service period, or less if sufficient to alleviate the emergency. Payments are made through DMHDS to DMHDS contract providers, who provide the actual housing and some limited serves to the child or family.

2. EA Family Preservation and Support Benefits: When a child is experiencing an emergency due to child abuse, neglect, abandonment; the imminent risk of the child's removal from the home; or an urgent situation where continued presence in the home is not in the best interest of the child as determined by the Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), NH Department of Health and Human Services, payments for any of the following services recommended by DCYF as necessary to alleviate the emergency may be authorized**: adolescent and family support; child in-home care; crisis intervention; diagnostic evaluation, when not covered by Title XIX; family-based services; foster care board and care, when not covered by Title IV-E; individual, family, and group outpatient counseling, including alcohol and drug abuse counseling, when not covered by Title XIX; intensive day programming, when not covered by Title XIX; outreach and tracking; parent aide; residential facility board and care, excluding the portion paid by Title XIX; respite care; supplemental foster care; therapeutic foster care board and care, when not covered by Title IV-E; accompanied transportation services*; child day care*, when not for employment and training purposes and when not covered by Social Service