Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Children and Families
DCF 101-199 - Family and Economic Security
Chapter DCF 120 - Emergency Assistance
Section DCF 120.03 - Definitions

(1) "Destitution" means extreme want of resources or of the means of subsistence.

(2) "Emergency assistance" means the program under s. 49.138, Stats., for emergency assistance to families with needy children in cases of fire, flood, natural disaster, homelessness, impending homelessness, or energy crisis.

(3) "Emergency assistance group" or "group" means family as referred to in s. 49.138, Stats., and includes one or more dependent children as defined by s. 49.141(1) (c), Stats., and a qualified caretaker relative with whom the child is living or was living at the time the emergency occurred.

(4) "Emergency shelter facility" means any facility, the primary purpose of which is to provide temporary or transitional shelter for the homeless in general or specific populations of the homeless.

(5) "Migrant worker" has the meaning given in s. 103.90(5), Stats.

(6) "Needy person" means a person who meets the eligibility criteria in ss. DCF 120.05 and 120.06.

(6m) "Poverty line" means the poverty line as defined and revised annually under (2).

(7) "Qualified caretaker relative" means a caretaker of a child whose relationship to the caretaker or the caretaker's spouse is one of the following: son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, stepson, stepdaughter, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother or half sister, nephew, niece, uncle, aunt, first cousin or grand, great-grand or great-great grand son, daughter, nephew, or niece. A qualified caretaker relative continues to be a qualified relative even when the relationship is terminated by death or divorce.

(8) "W-2 Agency" or "agency" means an entity that is administering the Wisconsin works program as a contractor under s. 49.143, Stats.