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18.5.2.1 Teen Parent and Minor Children Assistance Groups
The assistance group can be a primary adult person and his/her spouse without minor children. If an adult refugee becomes ineligible for a W-2 paid placement due to a change in circumstances in which there is no longer a dependent child in the household, redetermine eligibility for RCA for any remainder of the initial 8 month residence period in this country. Each single adult forms her/his own RCA assistance group, even if living in the same household with other RCA groups. In cases where the spouse in an assistance group has a different arrival date, consider the income of the already employed spouse when determining eligibility for 8 months of RCA for the group based on entry of the newly arriving spouse into the country.
Teen parents and their children can form an RCA assistance group. If either teen parent turns 18 during the RCA eligibility period, redetermine W-2 eligibility and remove the teen group from RCA IF the 18 year old is found to be eligible for a W-2 paid placement.
One or more minor siblings living in a single household with adult caretaker relatives (See 18.7.0) instead of their parents may form one assistance group and receive RCA while an application for Kinship Care is pending. One or more non-sibling minors living in a single household with adult caretaker relatives can each form their own assistance group for RCA while an application for Kinship Care is pending.
EXAMPLE: A household which consists of a mother, father and their minor children, the minor son and daughter of the mother's sister and the minor child of the mother's brother would form the following assistance groups: One W-2 AG consisting of wife, husband and their children, one RCA AG for the niece and nephew who are brother and sister and one RCA AG for the child of the mother's brother.
RCA for all minors with caretaker relatives will terminate upon acceptance in Kinship Care or completion of the 8 month RCA eligibility period, whichever comes first.
This page last updated
in Release # 04-02
Release Date: 11/30/04
Effective Date: 11/30/04