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    "ocrText": "18\nchild is also present. Thus, both parents in a two-parent family are exempt from\nthe time limits. 50\nStates also are free to exempt other adults, besides parents, who live in a\nhousehold with a minor child. This includes other children age 18 and older, aunts\nand uncles, and others who are part of a household with children. This is one of\nthe many interpretive issues USDA will not address prior to publishing final\nregulations, which will take several years from now. Until then, states are free to\nexempt these persons as well; quality control reviews will be conducted against\nwhichever interpretation the state adopts.⁵¹\nIn most households with children, all adults will assume some responsibility\nfor supervising, instructing, cleaning up after, or otherwise taking care of the chil-\ndren. Even somewhat irregular babysitting duties can cut into the time available\nfor an adult to look for work outside of the home. Moreover, from an\nadministrative point of view, exempting all adults living in households with minor\nchildren from these time limits is likely to be a major administrative simplification.\nReducing a household's food stamps because a household member has reached the\ntime limits inevitably would reduce the amount of food available to all members of\nthe household (since households, by definition, purchase and prepare food\ntogether). 52 If a child is in a household, he or she would be harmed by the\napplication of the time limits to any adult in his or her household. That would be\ncontrary to assurances from Members of Congress involved in developing this\nprovision that children would not be harmed.\nAnother issue on which USDA also has said that \"State agencies may use\ntheir best judgment\" is whether to grant an exemption to persons with shared\ncustody of a child or where a child is temporarily out of the household. 53 USDA\nalso has allowed states to set their own policy on how old a \"dependent child\" may\nbe.⁵⁴ Since the statute does not limit this term to a \"minor child,\" states are free to\n⁵⁰Memorandum of October 17, 1996, from Arthur T. Foley, Director of the Program Development Division for the\nFood Stamp Program in USDA's Food and Consumer Service (FCS) to FCS Regional Administrators, page 4.\nMemo of Arthur T. Foley, Director, Program Development Division, Food Stamp Program, FCS, USDA, p. 7\n(September 30, 1996).\n527 U.S.C. § 2012(i); 7 C.F.R. § 273.1(a)(1)(iii).\n53 Memo of Arthur T. Foley, Director, Program Development Division, Food Stamp Program, FCS, USDA, pp. 7-8\n(November 12, 1996).\n⁵⁴Memo of Arthur T. Foley, Director, Program Development Division, Food Stamp Program, FCS, USDA, pp. 7-8\n(November 12, 1996)."
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