The program she perticularly uses is Promise Jobs and they approve you for so many months. You must be in school full-time and follow all the guidelines (turning in schedule, grades, etc). She originally planned on going to a 2 year college but changed her mind and decided to go into teaching. So I'm not sure if she has to "reapply" now since she changed the plan.
The other family just goes through the basic child assistance program offered through DHS, which if she wanted to she could just do that instead.
It all makes sense to me now as to why the two families had different guidelines.

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