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A child shall be eligible for public assistance who:

(a) Is in need and has not sufficient income or other resources to provide care and support compatible with decency and health;

COL 8/23/2023

10 Guam Code Ann. HEALTH AND SAFETY
CH 2 DIVISION OF PUBLIC WELFARE

(b) Has not attained the age of eighteen (18) years, or if enrolled as a high school student, has not attained the age of nineteen (19) years;

(c) Is deprived of parental support or suitable care by reason of the death, continued absence from home, physical or mental incapacity or cruelty, neglect or depravity on the part of a parent, or by the unemployment of his father, the term “”unemployment”” being defined by the Federal Social Security Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C. § 607); and

(d) Is living in a home with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew or niece, in a place of residence maintained by such relative as his own home.

SOURCE: GC § 9115; Subsection (b) R/R by P.L. 16-44.