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134 (07/2026) Chapter 2:Eligibility • Section 2: Eligibility groups TANF Individuals living in multiple household groups in one month
Individuals who live in more than one household group during a calendar month are members of the household group in which they spend more than half of their time, except as follows: • Parents who sleep in the household of the dependent child(ren) 30 percent or more of their time during the calendar month • A dependent child living with the caretaker relative who usually has the major responsibility for care, control and supervision. • The dependent child lives with two household groups in the same calendar month for at least one of the following reasons:
Education
The usual caretaker relative is gone from the household for part of the month because of illness or a family emergency. Individuals gone for 30 days or more Individuals are in the same household even if they are gone for 30 days or more, if one of the following is true: • They are absent because of employment. Employment includes looking for work outside the area of their residence, or their employment takes them out of their residence. Employment such as long-haul truck driving, fishing or active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces normally takes an individual out of their household for a period of time. • Caretaker relatives are gone for up to 90 days in a residential alcohol or drug treatment facility. • Caretaker relatives enter a general hospital (unless they enter some other living arrangement). • Child(ren) are in foster care but are expected to return to the household within the next 30 days. • Children are gone for:
Illness, such as general hospital or drug and alcohol treatment (unless they go into a long- term care title XIX facility)
Social service, or
Educational reasons such as Job Corps or boarding school. • When a filing group includes more than one caretaker relative, a caretaker relative in the household group is absent for up to 60 days solely due to the regulations of a homeless or domestic violence shelter or other circumstances beyond the individual’s control but who would otherwise be included in the household. In the TANF program, ODHS may approve one or more 30-day extensions of this time period if ODHS receives sufficient information to assure the absent individual will return within the extension period. Correctional facilities The following people are considered living in correctional facilities. They are not considered part of the