67:12:01:79Assistance unit ineligible after sixty months.

An assistance unit which includes an adult who has received assistance for sixty months is ineligible for assistance under this article. The sixty months do not have to be consecutive and do not begin to count until December 1996. In determining the number of months the adult received assistance, the department shall disregard: (1) Any months during which the individual was a minor child and not the head of a household or married to the head of the household; and (2) Any months during which the adult lived on an Indian reservation or in an Alaskan native village if, during the month, at least one thousand individuals were living on the reservation or in the village and at least fifty percent of the adults living on the reservation or in the village were unemployed.

Source: 23 SDR 152, effective March 14, 1997; 51 SDR 52, effective November 11, 2024.