I – 032 How does a Head Start program determine household size for a family in which one or both parents are deployed out of the country in the military?
The notion of what constitutes a household can be confusing if one or both parents are deployed out of the country. In that situation the household size should be computed by including the deployed parent(s), the child being considered for enrollment, any of that child’s siblings that are supported by the child’s parents and anyone else related by blood, marriage or adoption to the parent(s) that are supported by the parent(s). For example, a single mother with two children is deployed overseas. The children, during the mom’s deployment, are living with their maternal grandmother. That should be considered, in most cases, a family of three (mother and two children) and only the income of the mother should be counted in determining eligibility.
