1) Individual/Family is in receipt of or eligible for the following:

a. Cash Assistance receiving households (TANF, GA, SSI):

b. 1931: Transitional, and Prospective Medicaid; and

c. Poverty-related Pregnant Women, Infants and Children Medicaid;

OR

A) Family has children at risk of removal or removed from their home due to, or suspected at risk of, abuse or neglect; or

B) Family has children removed from, or at risk of removal from, the community.

1) The Medicaid individual / family must be without resources immediately accessible to meet their needs;

2) The child is without resources immediately accessible for meeting his/her needs; or

3) The emergency assistance is necessary to avoid the destitution of a child or to provide living arrangements for him in a home; and

4) The emergency must have resulted from an unforeseen circumstance or combination of circumstances that are beyond the recipient's control. The cause of the emergency must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. In making a decision, the limited resources of the recipient will be considered, except that no assistance will be authorized when the emergency was due to a recipient's failure to comply with a requirement of a Social Services program.

For example, a recipient who is sanctioned or disqualified and whose cash grant is reduced is not eligible if the emergency is a direct result of the reduction of the grant amount. The inability to pay the rent or electric due to the reduction of the grant would make the recipient ineligible for EAS. If the emergency is a broken refrigerator or stove that needs replaced or repaired, this is not a direct result of the reduction of the grant, and the recipient would be eligible for EAS. Sometimes a sanction or disqualification may be permanent for an individual. A case-by-case determination must be made on whether or not the emergency was a direct result of the reduction in the grant amount.