(a) The Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) may provide a maximum of $3,000 in Family Empowerment benefits to an eligible family, which may include goods, services, and monetary assistance in the sum of $250 or less.
(b) Monetary assistance, goods, and services provided as Family Empowerment are for a family's basic needs and must be:
  (1) authorized and provided within the first four months of the case and may not be extended;
  (2) designed to deal with a specific crisis or episode of need; and
  (3) for non-recurrent, short-term benefits, but not for ongoing needs.

Source Note: The provisions of this §700.1804 adopted to be effective March 1, 2008, 33 TexReg 1360; amended to be effective May 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 3291