Children

A child shall be eligible for public assistance who: (a) Is in need and has not sufficient income or other resources to provide care and support compatible with decency and health; (b) Has not attained the age of eighteen (18) years, or if enrolled as a high school student, has not attained the age of nineteen (19) years; (c) Is deprived of parental support or suitable care by reason of the death, continued absence from home, physical or mental incapacity or cruelty, neglect or depravity on the part of a parent, or by the unemployment of his father, the term “unemployment” being defined by the Federal Social Security Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C. §607); and (d) Is living in a home with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew or niece, in a place of residence maintained by such relative as his own home. SOURCE: GC § 9115. Subsection (b) repealed and reenacted by P.L. 16-044 (Oct. 13, 1981).