Primary Individual (PI) 400-19-45-10

(Revised 6/1/10 ML #3218)

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(N.D.A.C. 75-02-01.2-06)

 

Every TANF household must have a primary individual (PI). The PI is the caretaker of a child in the household to whom the agency directs correspondence and notices. The PI, who may or may not be eligible, is responsible for providing all pertinent data necessary to make a determination of eligibility.  If the PI does not provide the necessary information required to determine eligibility, the entire household is ineligible for TANF.

 

The PI will be identified among the household members using the following priority listing:

  1. Natural or adoptive parent;

  2. Adult relative within the fifth degree of kinship;

  3. Stepparent;

  4. Spouses of any person(s) named above even after the marriage is terminated by death or divorce, but not by annulment; or

  5. Brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepbrother, or stepsister age 16 or older.

 

The PI of a case can only be changed if the PI dies.