Mo. Rev. Stat. § 660.165: Limitation on periods of emergency — when assistance to be granted.

Subject to the sufficiency of funds appropriated for this program, emergency assistance grants may be authorized by the director of the department of social services, or his delegate, when a finding is made that an individual family emergency exists. Such emergency assistance may be authorized during only one period of thirty consecutive days in any twelve-consecutive-month period, including payments which are to meet needs which arose before the thirty-day period or which extend beyond the thirty-day period. The program shall provide that a finding that an emergency does or does not exist will be made and, if applicable, assistance will be granted within three days after receipt by the department of a properly completed application.