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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 07.03.08.02" title_num="07" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="08" heading="Cash Emergency Assistance to Families with Children.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The local department may give Cash Emergency Assistance to Families with Children when:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Assistance is needed to avoid the destitution of a child younger than 21 years old;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>There are no resources available to meet the emergency; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The emergency is not the result of quitting a job without good cause.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Good cause includes, but is not limited to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Discrimination based on:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Race;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>National origin;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Ethnicity;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Age;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Sex;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Disability;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Religion; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>Sexual orientation;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Breakdown in child care or transportation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Domestic violence;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Hazardous working conditions;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Documented illness or incapacitation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Incarceration;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Resignation at employer's request; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Other circumstances determined to be good cause by the local department.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>