Eligibility Requirements

The youth must have been in foster care under the responsibility of the State of South Dakota or another state or with Tribal CPS on his/her 18th birthday.

The youth must be a resident of South Dakota.

There is no resource or income limit if the youth aged out of South Dakota (state or tribal) foster care.

Eligibility continues from the month the youth is no longer under the responsibility of the State or Tribe until the end of the month in which the youth attains age 26 if s/he meets all other eligibility requirements.

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