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N.J.A.C. 10:90-2.8 This file includes all Regulations adopted and published through the New Jersey Register, Vol. 56 No. 24, December 16, 2024
NJ - New Jersey Administrative Code > TITLE 10. HUMAN SERVICES > CHAPTER 90. WORK FIRST NEW JERSEY PROGRAM > SUBCHAPTER 2. NON-FINANCIAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
§ 10:90-2.8 Individuals ineligible for WFNJ TANF/GA
(a) The following persons shall not be eligible for assistance and shall not be considered to be members of the WFNJ/TANF or WFNJ/GA assistance units: 1. Non-needy caretakers, except that the eligibility of a dependent child shall not be affected by the income or resources of a non-needy caretaker; 2. Supplemental Security Income recipients, except for the purposes of receiving emergency assistance benefits and burial assistance, which are funded through SSI and administered by the WFNJ agency; 3. Illegal aliens; 4. Other aliens who are not eligible aliens as defined in N.J.A.C. 10:90-2.10; 5. A person absent from the home who is incarcerated in a Federal, State, county or local corrective facility or under the custody of correctional authorities; 6. A person who is fleeing to avoid prosecution, custody or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the jurisdiction from which the person has fled, for a crime or an attempt to commit a crime which is a felony or a high misdemeanor under the laws of the jurisdiction from which the person has fled; or is violating a condition of probation or parole imposed under Federal or State law; i. Under the laws of the State of New Jersey, a crime is defined at N.J.S.A. 2C:1- 4(a) as "an indictable offense . . . for which a sentence of imprisonment in excess of 6 months is authorized." 7. A person who has legal custody of a child(ren) but who is unable to prove a legal and/or blood relationship with such child(ren) (as defined at N.J.A.C. 10:90-2.7(a)1); i. According to N.J.S.A. 9:3-38, legal custody is defined as the "general right to exercise continuing control over the person of a child derived from court order or otherwise." 8. A convicted drug felon, unless the eligibility criteria delineated at N.J.A.C. 10:90- 18, the rules established for convicted drug felons, are met;