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<br /> <br /> <br />Covered .families. <br />Statutory term for families who are required to participate in a welfare agency <br />economic self-sufficiency program and who may be subject to a welfare benefit sanction for <br />noncompliance with this obligation. Includes families who receive welfare assistance or other <br />public assistance under a program for which federal, state or local law requires that a member <br />of the family must participate in an economic self-sufficiency program as a condition for the <br />assistance . <br />Dating violence. <br />Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a <br />romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and where the existence of such a relationship <br />shall be determined based on a consideration of the following factors : <br />- The length of the relationship <br />- The type of relationship <br />- The frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship <br />Dependent. <br />A member of the family (except foster children and foster adults) other than the <br />family head or spouse, who is under 18 years of age, or is a person with a disability , or is a <br />full-time student. <br />Dependent child. <br />In the context of the student eligibility restrictions, a dependent child of a <br />student enrolled in an institution of higher education. The dependent child must also meet the <br />dependent <br />definition of as specified above. <br />Disability assistance expenses. <br />Reasonable expenses that are anticipated, during the period for <br />which annual income is computed, for attendant care and auxiliary apparatus for a disabled <br />family member, and that are necessary to enable a family member (including the disabled <br />member) to be employed, provided that the expenses are neither paid to a member of the <br />family nor reimbursed by an outside source. <br />Disabled .family. <br />A family whose head, cohead, spouse, or sole member is a person with <br />disabilities; two or more persons with disabilities living together; or one or more persons <br />with disabilities living with one or more live-in aides. <br />Disabled person. person with disabilities. <br />See <br />Disallowance. <br />Exclusion from annual income. <br />Displaced family. <br />A family in which each member, or whose sole member, is a person displaced <br />by governmental action, or a person whose dwelling has been extensively damaged or <br />destroyed as a result of a disaster declared or otherwise fo1mally recognized pursuant to <br />federal disaster relief laws. <br />Domestic violence. <br />Felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former <br />spouse of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a <br />person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse, by a person <br />similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the <br />jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or by any other person against an adult or youth victim <br />who is protected from that person's acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the <br />jurisdiction . <br />GL-5 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />