§ 46:460.8 — TANF eligibility; teen parent living arrangements; work participation requirements;

Louisiana § 46:460.8

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 46: Public Welfare and Assistance

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§460.8. TANF eligibility; teen parent living arrangements; work participation requirements;
submission of waiver
NOTE: Paragraph (A)(1) eff. until Oct. 1, 2027. See Acts 2025, No. 478.
A.(1) Any recipient of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant
(TANF) benefits who is less than eighteen years of age, is not married, and is a custodial
parent shall live in an approved adult-supervised living arrangement with his or her child,
except when evidence is presented to a caseworker of the Department of Children and Family
Services that the teen parent, or his or her child, has been subjected to emotional or physical
abuse. If the caseworker determines that the teen parent, or his or her child, has been
subjected to the abuse of an adult with whom they are living in a primary relationship and
that under the circumstances the teen, and his or her child, would be safer living outside the
present adult-supervised living arrangement, then the teen parent and child shall be allowed
to live outside such living arrangement temporarily. If the teen parent leaves his or her such
living arrangement, the caseworker shall monitor the teen's case no less frequently than once
a month and shall assist the teen parent in locating another approved adult-supervised living
arrangement, taking into consideration the needs and concerns of the teen parent and child.
The teen parent shall be allowed to receive TANF benefits on behalf of himself or herself,
and his or her child, while temporarily living outside an adult-supervised living arrangement
as provided in this Subsection.
NOTE: Paragraph (A)(1) as amended by Acts 2025, No. 478, eff. Oct. 1, 2027.
A.(1)(a) Any recipient of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant
(TANF) benefits who is less than eighteen years of age, is not married, and is a custodial
parent shall live in an approved adult-supervised living arrangement with his child, except
when evidence is presented to a caseworker of Louisiana Works that the teen parent, or his
child, has been subjected to emotional or physical abuse.
(b)(i) If the caseworker determines that the teen parent, or his child, has been
subjected to the abuse of an adult with whom they are living in a primary relationship and
that under the circumstances the teen, and his child, would be safer living outside the present
adult-supervised living arrangement, then the teen parent and child shall be allowed to live
outside the adult-supervised living arrangement temporarily.
(ii) If the teen parent leaves the adult-supervised living arrangement, the caseworker
shall monitor the teen's case no less frequently than once a month and shall assist the teen
parent in locating another approved adult-supervised living arrangement, taking into
consideration the needs and concerns of the teen parent and child.
(c) The teen parent shall be allowed to receive TANF benefits on behalf of himself,
and his child, while temporarily living outside an adult-supervised living arrangement as
provided in this Subsection.
(2) Work-eligible, minor parents with children who have not yet received a high
school diploma or equivalency shall attend school or related education classes designed to
obtain a high school diploma or its equivalent. School attendance shall be the primary work
activity for those minor parents who do not have a high school diploma or equivalency.
These expectations shall become part of the recipient's Family Success Agreement. Minor
parents who fail to participate in these activities are subject to sanction for non-participation
and are considered to be out of compliance with a Family Success Agreement.
NOTE: Subsection B eff. until Oct. 1, 2027. See Acts 2025, No. 478.
B. The secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services may temporarily
exempt from the work participation requirements any female who is in a two-parent TANF
family who presents sufficient evidence to support a claim that she has been incapable of
maintaining a job or regularly reporting to her place of employment because she is a victim
of domestic violence and has been forced to move into a shelter or another protective
environment outside her home.
NOTE: Subsection B as amended by Acts 2025, No. 478, eff. Oct. 1, 2027.
B. The secretary of Louisiana Works may temporarily exempt from the work
participation requirements any female who is in a two-parent TANF family who presents
sufficient evidence to support a claim that she has been incapable of maintaining a job or
regularly reporting to her place of employment because she is a victim of domestic violence
and has been forced to move into a shelter or another protective environment outside her
home.
C. Repealed by Acts 2013, No. 285, §2, eff. June 14, 2013.

Legislative History

Acts 1997, No. 774, §1; Acts 2003, No. 58, §1; Acts 2013, No. 285, §2, eff. June 14, 2013; Acts 2025, No. 478, §13, eff. Oct. 1, 2027.