Previous Rules

461-120-0630    Effective 07/01/04
Requirement to Live With a Caretaker or Caretaker Relative

1. To be eligible for the EXT, MAA, MAF, and TANF programs, a child must live with a caretaker relative. Documentary evidence is required to show that a client is the father of a dependent child.

2. To be eligible for the EA program, a child must either live with a caretaker relative or have lived with one within the last six months.

3. To be eligible for ERDC, a child must live with a caretaker.

4. For the REFM program, the public or private agency with custody of the child is the caretaker of a child under the age of 18.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 411.060
Stats. Implemented: ORS 411.060

461-120-0630    Effective 4/01/03
Requirement to Live With a Caretaker or Caretaker Relative

1. To be eligible for the EXT, MAA, MAF and TANF programs, a child must live with a caretaker relative. Documentary evidence is required to show that a client is the father of a dependent child.

2. To be eligible for the ADCM-EA and EA programs, a child must either live with a caretaker relative or have lived with one within the last six months.

3. To be eligible for ERDC, a child must live with a caretaker.

4. For the REFM program, the public or private agency with custody of the child is the caretaker of a child under the age of 18.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 411.060
Stats. Implemented: ORS 411.060

461-120-0630 Effective 2/01/00
Requirement to Live With a Caretaker or Caretaker Relative

1. To be eligible for the TANF, MAA, MAF and EXT programs, a child must live with a caretaker relative. Documentary evidence is required to show that a client is the father of a dependent child.

2. To be eligible for the ADC-EA and ADCM-EA programs, a child must either live with a caretaker relative or have lived with one within the last six months.

3. To be eligible for ERDC, a child must live with a caretaker.

4. To be eligible for REF and REFM, a child under the age of 18 must live with a caretaker.

5. 5. For the REFM program, the public or private agency with custody of the child is the caretaker of a child under the age of 18.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 411.060
Stats. Implemented: ORS 411.060

Requirement to Live With a Caretaker Relative; ADC, ADCM
Rule: 461-120-0630

1. A caretaker relative is the person, regardless of age, who is responsible for the care, control, and supervision of the dependent child and is related to the child in one of the ways listed below. For the purposes of this rule, if any of the following relationships are established through marriage, the relationship remains the same even if the marriage is terminated by death or divorce.
   1. The biological parent. The following applies when determining if the alleged father may be the caretaker relative when the mother is absent:
      1. If there are documents that verify the alleged father is the father of the child, he may be the caretaker relative. If, at a later date, SED proves he is not the father, he can no longer be the caretaker relative.

      2. If there are no documents that verify the alleged father is the father of the child, he cannot be the caretaker relative until SED legally establishes that he is the father.

   2. For the purpose of this rule, the biological parent or other blood relative can be the caretaker relative, even if a legal adoption exists, in the following circumstances:
      1. The biological parent can be the caretaker relative if the child lives with them and the legal parent (the adoptive parent) has given up care, control and supervision of the child.

      2. People who were related to the child through the biological parent may be the caretaker relative if the child lives with them, the adoptive parent has given up care, control and supervision of the child, and the person met the degree of relationship specified in this rule before the adoption.

   3. The adoptive parent and any people related to the child through the adoption who meet the degree of relationship specified in this rule.

   4. Blood relative or half-blood relative (sharing one common natural or adoptive parent). This includes:
      1. Siblings, aunts, uncles, first cousins, first cousins once removed, nephews, or nieces; AND

      2. Persons of preceding generations denoted by the prefixes of grand, great, great-great, or great-great-great.

   5. Stepfathers, stepmothers, stepbrothers or stepsisters.

   6. The spouse of anyone listed in this section of this rule.

2. The status of caretaker relative ends when care, control, and supervision of the child is given to, or accepted by, another person for 30 days or more.

3. To be eligible for ADC-BAS, ADCM-BAS and ADCM-EXT, a child must live with a caretaker relative.

4. To be eligible for ADC-EA and ADCM-EA, a child must either live with a caretaker relative or have lived with one within the last six months.