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7 FEP serves all eligible unemployed or underemployed families where a dependent child resides in the home or where a woman is pregnant and in her third trimester. A dependent child is defined as a child under the age of 18, or if 18, a full-time student, reasonably expected to complete the program by the month they turn age 19. Individuals who must be part of the family's assistance filing unit include:

● All brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, adopted brothers and adopted sisters who are residing in the same household as a dependent child, and who also meet the dependent child requirement. ● All parents, including stepparents, residing in the same household as their son, daughter, stepson or step daughter who meet dependent child requirements. ● When an individual residing in the household is required to be included in two filing units, the filing units must be combined into one filing unit.

A child who is expected to be temporarily absent from the household for no more than 180 consecutive days is considered part of the filing unit. A Native American child or a child who is deaf and blind who is temporarily absent due to boarding school, may still be considered part of the filing unit even if the temporary absence is expected to last more than 180 days.

For the Family Employment Program, a family is considered needy when they meet each of the following criteria:

● They reside in Utah. ● They meet either U.S. citizenship status or a non-citizen status of permanent legal resident, refugee, conditional entrant, Cuban/Haitian refugees or entrants, victims of human trafficking, and certain battered non-citizens, or individuals granted asylum. Qualified non-citizens, who do not meet Federal Eligible Non-citizen criteria, are barred from TANF participation for five years from date of entrance into the U.S. will be served with state dollars. ● Their countable assets do not exceed $2,000 in value - with the equity value of all motorized vehicles exempt, except possibly in some Adoption Assistance Cases. ● They meet the following monthly income limits effective October 2022:

Household Size Test 1 Gross Income Test 2 Net Income Test 3 Cash Assistance Payment Amount 1 $608 $329 $383 2 $843 $456 $531 3 $1,050 $568 $662 4 $1,230 $665 $775