R986-800-802. General Provisions

Services are available to a displaced homemaker who:

(1) has been a homemaker for a period of eight or more years without significant gainful employment in the labor market, and whose primary occupation during that period of time was the provision of unpaid household services for family members;

(2) has found it necessary to enter the job market but is not reasonably capable of obtaining employment sufficient to provide self-support or necessary support for dependents, due to a lack of marketable job skills or other skills necessary for self-sufficiency; and

(3) has depended on the income of a family member and lost that income or has depended on governmental assistance as the parent of dependent children, and is no longer eligible for that assistance.