Special Need
Special Need means a circumstance or legal status arising from actual or threatened severe unemployment or economic adjustment problems resulting from severe short-term or long-term changes in economic conditions, including: (1) Substantial outmigration or population loss; (2) Underemployment; that is, employment of workers at less than full-time or at less skilled tasks than their training or abilities permit; (3) Military base closures or realignments, defense contractor reductions-in-force, or U.S. Department of Energy defense-related funding reductions; (4) Natural or other major disasters or emergencies; (5) Extraordinary depletion of natural resources; (6) Closing or restructuring of an industrial firm or loss of a major employer; (7) Negative effects of changing trade patterns; or (8) Other circumstances set forth in an FFO.