Section 1240-01-47-.22 - INDIVIDUALS NOT ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE FAMILIES FIRST(1) Those persons who are inmates of any institution. An inmate is a person living in an institution who is not free to leave on his/her volition or has been committed by court order.(2) Those persons who are in facilities owned and/or operated by the Department of Corrections.(3) An A/R cannot receive Families First for a dependent child when the child is residing in a child caring facility (except day care). A child born to a mother who is herself in foster care may receive regular Families First payments if all eligibility requirements are met and the child is actually living in the home with the mother.(4) A person for whom foster care board or adoption assistance payments are made from federal, state or local funds is not eligible for Families First, with the following exception: for a child for whom adoption assistance is paid, if the child's exclusion from the AG (along with the exclusion of his/her income) would reduce the amount of Families First benefits the adoptive family would receive, then the child is to be included in the AG and his/her income, including the adoption assistance payment must be counted.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1240-01-47-.22
Original rule filed December 2, 1996; effective February 15, 1997.Authority: T.C.A. §§ 4-5-201 et seq., 71-1-105, Public Acts of 1996, Chapter 950, and 45 CFR 233.10.