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Department
of Human Services Families
First Online Policy Manual Relationship |
Revised: |
13.1 |
POLICY STATEMENT |
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To be eligible for Families First, a child
must be living in the home of a parent or certain relative who is within a
specified degree of relationship to the child. Relatives within the specified degree of
relationship are listed below. ·
Any blood
relative, i.e. father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew,
niece, or first cousin once removed.
This includes relationships to preceding generations, grandparents,
great-grandparents, great-great grandparents, great uncles/aunts, and
great-great-great- grandparents. ·
Any of the
above relatives who are of half-blood relationship. ·
Stepfather,
stepmother, stepbrother and stepsister. ·
Legally
adoptive parents of the child or of the child’s parents, the natural and
other legally adopted children of such persons, and the blood relatives of
such persons, including first cousins, first cousins once removed, nephews,
and nieces. ·
Legal
spouses of any of the persons named in the above groups. This applies even though the marriage may
have been terminated by death or divorce. ·
The
caretaker relative does not have to be the legal guardian or custodian of the
child in order to receive Families First benefits for the child. Blood relationships within a specified
degree of the child and relative are the eligibility requirement for Families
First purposes. |
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