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Page 5 of 202 § 10:90-6.1 Availability of emergency assistance

another, thereby placing the recipient in danger of being either sanctioned due to noncooperation or terminated from receipt of EA. (2) Failure to comply with the CP&P service plan or the EA service plan may, in consultation with CP&P, result in the termination of EA. 7. Emergency assistance is likewise available in situations where there is an indication that an individual, or a parent and his or her children, have left their customary residence and the unit is in a state of homelessness due to imminent or demonstrated domestic violence which imperils the health and safety of the eligible unit. i. Temporary living arrangements during the period between the occurrence of the incidence of domestic violence and the application for EA do not negate the existence of a state of homelessness. 8. In instances where the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, in consultation with the county agency, certifies that placement of the children is imminent due only to the fact that the family is being subjected to a serious health or life threatening situation because of the lack of adequate housing, EA shall be provided in accordance with the applicable provisions of this subchapter. (d) The county agency may authorize EA to a family on behalf of a child in order to facilitate the return of a child from resource family care when the appropriate Local Officer Manager (LOM) of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (CP&P) has approved a specific plan for the return of a child from resource family care and all of the following conditions exist: 1. The county agency is in receipt of detailed written verification from CP&P that the return is barred solely by insufficient or inadequate shelter, food, clothing or house furnishings and there is no other way by which a deficiency can be remedied; 2. The appropriate LOM of CP&P has certified that the return of the child will be effected on a specific date subject to remedy of the deficiency; 3. The return from placement will be to any parent or relative specified in N.J.A.C. 10:90-2.7(a)3; and 4. Upon return of the child, WFNJ eligibility will exist. (e) EA is also available in cases where only the child is eligible to receive WFNJ cash assistance (that is, the parent-person is non-needy). History

HISTORY: Amended by R.1998 d.42, effective January 20, 1998. See: 29 N.J.R. 3971(b), 30 N.J.R. 389(a). In (b), added "or utilities", "prior", "or imminent homelessness", and "or the absence of a realistic capacity to plan in advance for substitute housing"; added new (b)1, 1i through iii;