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The purpose of the Program is to provide temporary benefits to a covered individual who is taking leave from employment:

(1) to care for a child during the first year after the child’s birth or after the placement of the child through foster care, kinship care, or adoption;

(2) to care for a family member with a serious health condition;

(3) because the covered individual has a serious health condition that results in the covered individual being unable to perform the functions of the covered individual’s position;

(4) to care for a service member who is the covered individual’s next of kin; or

(5) because the covered individual has a qualifying exigency arising out of the deployment of a service member who is a family member of the covered individual.