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Emergency Aid to the Elderly Disabled and Children (EAEDC) Living Arrangement

Living Arrangement

(A) Definition

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In order to be eligible for EAEDC, the living arrangement of EAEDC applicants or
clients must be one of the following:

  1. Living Arrangement A: an EAEDC individual or EAEDC family who is responsible for a shelter cost, including, but not limited to, rent, mortgage, real estate taxes, insurance, fuel or utility expenses or room or board expenses from a licensed lodging house, and who:
    1. Lives alone; or
    2. Lives with others (including another assistance unit, applying for or receiving TAFDC where there is no legal obligation to support), except as provided in (A)(2) or (A)(3);
  2. Living Arrangement B: an EAEDC individual or EAEDC family who lives with another assistance unit who is applying for, or receiving TAFDC, including spouses, and a legal obligation to support exists between a member of the TAFDC assistance unit and a member of the EAEDC assistance unit, except as provided in (A)(3)(b);
  3. Living Arrangement H: the EAEDC individual or EAEDC family, who is responsible for a shelter cost as specified in (A)(1), and is in one of the following circumstances:
    1. Lives with a spouse who is applying for or receiving EAEDC; or
    2. Lives with a spouse and a child who is not the natural or adoptive child of the spouse and the spouse is applying for or receiving TAFDC only or for himself or herself and the child;
  4. Living Arrangement C: an EAEDC individual who resides in a halfway house, licensed chronic hospital, licensed nursing home, approved public medical institution, licensed intermediate care facility, residential treatment center or public psychiatric institution;
  5. Living Arrangement D: an EAEDC individual in one or more of the following circumstances:
    1. An individual, including an individual with no established place of abode, who pays no shelter costs; or
    2. An individual in a temporary emergency shelter;
  6. Living Arrangement E: an EAEDC individual who resides in an assisted living community or a licensed rest home, also known as a residential care facility; and
  7. Living Arrangement F: an EAEDC individual who resides in a therapeutic community center.

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