Utah Admin. Code R986-400-402 - General Provisions
(1) GA provides
temporary financial assistance to single persons and married couples who have
no dependent children residing with them 50% or more of the time and who have a
physical or mental health impairment that prevents basic work activities in any
occupation. This means that the applicant or client is unable to work any
number of hours at all in any occupation.
(2) The impairment must be expected to last
at least 60 days after the date of application.
(3) Drug addiction and/or alcoholism alone is
insufficient to meet the impairment requirement for GA as defined in
Public Law
104-121 .
(4) Married couples meet the impairment
criteria and time limits on an individual basis. If the household includes an
ineligible spouse, the income and assets of the ineligible spouse must be
counted when determining the eligibility of the household and the ineligible
spouse will not be included in the financial payment. The household can consist
of any combination of impaired, non-impaired, short term disabled, or long term
disabled as long as at least one spouse meets the eligibility requirements.
(5) GA is only available to a
client who is at least 18 years old or legally or factually emancipated.
Factual emancipation means the client has lived independently from his or her
parents or guardians and has been economically self-supporting for a period of
at least twelve consecutive months, and the client's parents have refused
financial support.
(6) A client
claiming factual emancipation must cooperate with the Department in locating
his or her parents. The parents, once located, will be contacted by the
Department. If the parents continue to refuse to support the client, a referral
will be made to ORS to enforce the parents' child support obligations.
(7) A person eligible for Bureau
of Indian Affairs assistance is not eligible for GA financial assistance.
(8) In addition to the residency
requirements in R986-100-106, residents in a
group home that is administered under a contract with a governmental unit or
administered by a governmental unit are not eligible for financial assistance.
(9) An individual receiving SSI is
not eligible for GA. This ineligibility includes persons whose SSI is in
suspense status, has been terminated, or who is not eligible for SSI due to the
imposition of a penalty as defined by 20 CFR Part 416.1320 through 416.1340. An
individual whose SSI benefits are suspended because he or she has not attained
U.S. citizenship, may be eligible for GA if the individual actively pursues
U.S. citizenship to regain SSI eligibility. If SSI was terminated because the
client's disability ended, the client may be eligible for GA if an unrelated
physical or mental health condition develops and is verified.
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