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The Township may provide transportation to individual applicants to seek and accept employment within or outside Center Township when there is reasonable evidence that employment is available. 

An automobile is not, by statute, recognized as a basic necessity. Therefore, automobile payments and other related expenses are not considered acceptable expenses.

Re-Application – Any indigent person who has been sent to a place of settlement, by court order, or is transported there at public expense (township assistance), and who again willfully makes an application for assistance in any township or a county other than that of his\her legal settlement may be denied township assistance for a period not to exceed 180 days. The denial period begins the day township assistance is again requested. (IC 12-20-9-6)