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Page 53 of 233 § 10:90-2.7 Composition of the WFNJ/TANF and WFNJ/GA eligible assistance unit

iii. An SSI recipient parent with a needy child may be eligible to receive TANF assistance on behalf of that child. A needy parent of an SSI recipient child may be eligible to receive TANF assistance for himself or herself. iv. When an RSDI recipient child joins a TANF assistance unit headed by an adult other than his or her natural or adoptive parent and the child's income and/or child support would make the TANF assistance unit financially ineligible, that child shall be excluded from the TANF assistance unit. v. An ineligible alien parent with an eligible child may be eligible to receive TANF assistance on behalf of that child. An eligible parent with an ineligible child may be eligible to receive TANF assistance for himself or herself. 2. A recipient child cannot be included in the WFNJ/TANF cash payment after the month in which he or she attains the age when he or she is no longer eligible as a child. Furthermore, an individual who attains such age on the first day of the month is not considered to be of eligible age during that month and is not eligible for inclusion in the grant for that month. Additionally, the assistance unit ceases to be eligible for WFNJ/TANF when the youngest assistance unit member is no longer of eligible age. However, the individual adult(s) may apply for assistance under the WFNJ/GA component. 3. The term "parent" shall refer to natural and/or adoptive parent(s), parent-person(s) or legal guardian(s). By law, certain relatives shall be recognized as taking the place of a parent. i. The term "parent-person" refers to any person related by blood, marriage, civil union, adoption or legal guardianship. (1) An applicant who is a parent-person may apply for WFNJ/TANF benefits for a child(ren) and him or herself as a needy parent-person. (2) Non-needy caretakers and/or parent persons shall also be eligible to apply for WFNJ/TANF benefits for the children in their care. ii. Spouses of any persons named in the above groups may be considered "parent-persons" even though the marriage has been terminated by death or divorce. iii. Under New Jersey law, relatives of persons who adopt children become legally related to such adopted children to the same extent that they are related to natural children of the adopting parent. iv. A legal guardian, according to N.J.S.A. 9:3-38, refers to a person who has "the right to exercise continuing control over the person or property or both of a child which includes any specific right of control over an aspect of the child's upbringing, pursuant to a court order." 4. Any child for whom a payment or subsidy is received from CP&P, including, but not limited to, a resource family care payment, guardianship subsidy, or adoption subsidy, shall not be included in the eligible assistance unit. Such child's parent(s) may be