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Nevada TANF State Plan P a g e | 1 1 Effective December 31, 2020 • Cooperation with Child Support Enforcement. • Cooperation with the development and compliance of a Personal Responsibility Plan (PRP). • Restricted use of TANF EBT transactions. Relationship B. A dependent child must be living with a parent/caregiver who is applying for benefits on the child’s behalf. The parent/caregiver must maintain a home and exercise responsibility for the care and supervision of the child. The parent/caregiver relationship must be as follows: • Father, mother, brother or sister. • Grandfather or grandmother. • Uncle or aunt. • Nephew or niece. • First cousin, first cousin once removed. • Stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, or stepsister. Relationship extends to the: • Spouse/domestic partner of the listed relatives even after the marriage is terminated by death, divorce or termination of a domestic partnership • Degree of great-great for relatives listed in items 3 and 4 above. • Degree of great-great-great for grandparents in item 2 above. • Court established Fictive Kin in the case of non-needy foster caregiver placement cases only. Note: Domestic Partner, used throughout the state plan, began May 1, 2010. Both natural and adoptive relationships may be used to establish relationship. When the natural parent(s) of the child resides in the same household, they are required members unless otherwise ineligible or the child for whom benefits are requested has been legally adopted. If a child is legally adopted, natural relatives as defined in this section may apply for benefits on the child’s behalf as a needy or non-needy caretaker. The adoptive relationship determines required members. Once adopted, the adoptive parents/siblings living in the home become the required members. The natural parents/siblings are no longer required members. Relationship to the child may extend beyond the above list upon a finding of hardship by the Division Administrator. School Attendance C. For TANF Child-Only and TANF-NEON assistance households, and as required under NRS 422A.333, the head-of-household that has control or charge of a child