53-4-212. Department to make rules. (1) The department shall make rules and take action as necessary or desirable for the administration of the aid to families with dependent children program, including the FAIM project.
(2) The department shall adopt rules that may include but are not limited to rules concerning:
(a) eligibility requirements, including gross and net income limitations, resource limitations, and income and resource exclusions;
(b) amounts of assistance and methods for computing benefit amounts;
(c) what constitutes deprivation of parental support or care sufficient to qualify a child as dependent;
(d) the degree of kinship required for a person to qualify as a specified caretaker relative in order to be eligible for assistance;
(e) requirements for participation in the JOBS program and exemptions from those requirements;
(f) procedures and policies of the JOBS program;
(g) special requirements or criteria applicable to participants in the FAIM project, such as:
(i) community service requirements for specified caretaker relatives participating in the community services program, including the number of hours of community service work per month and other terms of performance;
(ii) eligibility for and terms and conditions of child-care assistance for FAIM project participants, including maximum amounts of assistance payable and amounts of copayments required by specified caretaker relatives;
(iii) maximum amounts of one-time only cash payments for special employment-related needs and the length of time that a family is required to remain off cash assistance after a payment is received;
(iv) exemptions from time limits in pathways;
(v) terms of a specified caretaker relative's ineligibility for assistance because of failure to enter into a family investment agreement or to comply with the specified caretaker relative's obligations under the agreement, including the length of the period of ineligibility;
(vi) requirements, if any, for participation in and exemptions from participation in and procedures and policies of the employment and training demonstration project; and
(vii) eligibility for and terms and conditions of extended child-care and medical assistance benefits;
(h) reporting requirements; and
(i) sanctions, disqualification, or other penalties for failure to comply with the program rules or requirements.
History: En. Sec. 2, Part 4, Ch. 82, L. 1937; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 156, L. 1951; amd. Sec. 50, Ch. 121, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 71-503(part (e)); amd. Sec. 19, Ch. 491, L. 1995.
