TRANSPORTATION 

Transportation   Michigan Township may provide transportation to individual applicants to seek and accept employment within or outside Michigan Township, but within LaPorte County, when there is reasonable evidence that employment is available.  The township does not provide travel vouchers or bus tickets for non residents seeking return to their desired destination. However, upon verification of the distressed applicant's permanent residence, the Trustee may provide emergency assistance to the individual in the form of a gasoline voucher to continue in the direction of their permanent residence.

Transportation / Deportation  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 poor relief), 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 the township assistance is again requested.  (IC 12-20-9-6

Automobiles  An automobile is not, by statute, recognized as a basic necessity.  Therefore, automobile payments and other related expenses are not generally considered acceptable expenses. However, if automobile expenditures were necessary for employment, Michigan Township will recognize such expenditures as acceptable expenses.