703.05 Eligibility Requirements SR 01-09, 06/01 (FAM-A)

Applicants for EA Permanent Housing Payments must be experiencing or threatened by at least one of the following:

• homelessness;

• termination of a utility; or

• lack of heat, hot water, or cooking fuel.

The emergency situation must have not been caused by an adult assistance group’s member’s:

• voluntarily quitting a job of at least 20 hours per week within 60 days of applying for EA unless the reason for voluntarily quitting meets the good cause criteria in FAM 315.01, VOLUNTARY QUIT; or

• being under sanction for failure to comply with NHEP work program requirements. See FAM 808.35, Sanctions for Failure or Refusal to Cooperate with NHEP Work Program Participation Requirements .

Applicants must also meet one of the additional conditions below:

• be eligible for and receiving TANF financial assistance;

• be categorically and financially eligible for TANF financial assistance, except that the caretaker relative does not meet the definition of a specified relative. However, the children must have lived with a specified relative within 6 months preceding the month of application; or

• not be receiving TANF financial assistance, but be categorically and financially eligible for it.

When a parent caretaker/relative not included requests emergency assistance payments for permanent housing services, combine the income and resources of all eligible children, the parent/caretaker relative and his or her spouse, and compare the combined income and resources to the TANF payment standard and resource limit for the appropriate group size. Authorize EA payments only if income and resources are within TANF limits and all EA eligibility requirements are met.