N.J. Stat. § 44:1-127 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-127
Enabling nonresident poor to earn funds to return home
Status: in_force

When a person not being in the place in which he usually lives, or has his home, shall apply to an overseer of the poor or superintendent or director of welfare of a municipality, county or district, stating that he is desirous of returning to his home but is poor and has not the means to do so, that officer may employ or let out the poor person to labor at some suitable place to be selected by the officer and at wages which shall seem to him just. When in the opinion of the officer the poor person has earned a sufficient sum, the officer shall, with the money so earned, and such additions thereto, not exceeding twenty dollars, from the treasury of the municipality, county or district as he may think reasonable, cause the person to be returned to his home whether in this state or elsewhere.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-122 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-122
Aid and assistance after reasonable inquiry
Status: in_force

The director of welfare, by a written order, shall render such aid and material assistance as he may in his discretion, after reasonable inquiry, deem necessary to the end that such person may not suffer unnecessarily, from cold, hunger, sickness, or be deprived of shelter pending further consideration of the case. L.1947, c. 156, p. 698, s. 16.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-101 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-101
Annual reports by overseers
Status: in_force

Overseers shall, annually, make to their county, municipal governing bodies, or district board, as the case may be, within thirty days after the first meeting thereof in the year, a report or reports, in writing, which shall be a summary of the entries of the records mentioned and authorized in this chapter.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-117 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-117
Liability of master or commander for landing persons wrongfully
Status: in_force

A master or commander of a ship or vessel arriving as referred to in section 44:4-116 of this title, who shall land or suffer to be landed from on board his ship or vessel any passenger or employee who is sick, infirm or otherwise incapable of providing for his own support and by reason thereof is likely to become a public charge of the county, except by permit from the county welfare board of the county in which the poor person is found or brought, without having notified the director of welfare immediately upon the arrival of the passenger or employee and without having entered into the bond referred to in said section 44:4-116 shall be liable for the expenses of the relief and care of such poor person. Such expense may be recovered from time to time, with costs of suit, by the county welfare board incurring it, in an action at law in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the poor person may be.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-111 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-111
Permanent relief where settlement is in county having no provision therefor
Status: in_force

Where a poor person requiring permanent relief in a municipality has not gained a settlement therein but has gained a settlement in the county in which the municipality is situated, in which county there is no county almshouse or welfare-house and no provision for permanent relief, the overseer shall, by a written order, commit and remove the poor person to a municipal almshouse in the county after which notice shall be served upon the board of chosen freeholders of the county which shall thereupon proceed to provide for the support and maintenance of the poor person as a county charge, the expense of which shall be borne by the entire county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-15 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-15
§ 44:4-15
Status: in_force

The real and personal property which has been used for municipal almshouses, abolished as provided in section 44:4-14 of this title, may be sold by the governing body and the proceeds thereof shall fall into the municipal treasury and be used to pay other expenses of the municipality in the same manner as may be otherwise lawful or such land and premises may be put to such other public use as may be lawful.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-42 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-42
§ 44:1-42
Status: in_force

A canvass and return of the votes upon the question of the acceptance of the resolution shall be made by the board of canvassers in the same way and manner as for officers voted at the election and as other questions are submitted on referendum, and the result thereof shall be certified within five days thereafter to the secretary of state who shall canvass the vote of the two or more counties voting on the question and shall certify it within ten days thereafter to the respective county clerks and to the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of each such county. If the majority of the votes cast in each county for and against the acceptance of the resolution are found to be in favor of its acceptance it shall then become operative in the county with such other counties as have likewise voted in favor of the adoption of the district welfare-house.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-71 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-71
§ 44:4-71
Status: in_force

Where temporary relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in which he is a resident and inhabitant, in which municipality he has not gained a settlement, but shall have gained a settlement in some other municipality in the same county than the one in which relief is sought, the county director of welfare shall temporarily relieve such poor person and proceed to remove him to the place of such settlement in the municipality within the same county where his place of settlement is.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-117 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-117
Duties of overseer
Status: in_force

The removal of poor persons to their place of settlement or to the place where they became poor before being found or becoming domiciled in the place from which they are to be removed, shall, when the removal is to another place in the same county, and in all other cases where there is no superintendent or county adjuster to act as provided in this chapter, be accomplished by action of the overseer where the person is found or resides.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-19.3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-19.3
Time of filing
Status: in_force

Any such lien may be filed at any time during the period of hospitalization and within 2 years after the date of discharge from such hospitalization. L.1957, c. 139, p. 530, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-119 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-119
Applicant's affidavit
Status: in_force

13. Each applicant for public assistance in any municipality or county shall be required to make an affidavit to the correctness of his or her statements in his or her application for relief. L.1947,c.156,s.13; amended 1995,c.259,s.21.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-110 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-110
Administration and distribution of state aid for public assistance
Status: in_force

State aid for public assistance for the municipalities and counties of this State shall be administered and distributed by the commissioner in the manner prescribed by this act and shall be paid by the commissioner to the several municipalities and counties entitled thereto, under this act, from the Municipal Aid Fund and from other funds appropriated from the State treasury for such purposes, which shall be drawn upon for said purposes on the orders of the commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and shall be disbursed as other funds are disbursed from the State treasury. L.1947, c. 156, p. 693, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-15 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-15
Certificate of amount of assistance; filing; effect; proceedings for collection and satisfaction; levy; disposition of proceeds; voluntary conveyance
Status: in_force

At any time the county welfare agency may execute and file with the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, a certificate, in form to be prescribed by the State division, showing the amount of assistance advanced to said person, and when so filed each certificate shall be a legal claim against both the recipient and his spouse with the same force and effect for 20 years as a judgment of the Superior Court, with priority over all unsecured claims except burial and funeral expenses not to exceed $255.00. Where the above-mentioned certificates are filed with the county clerk, subsequent proceedings for the collection and satisfaction of the judgment, including issuance of execution, shall conform to the practice prevailing in the Superior Court. In counties where the above-mentioned certificates are filed with the register of deeds and mortgages, the register, upon request of the county welfare agency, shall execute and file with the said county clerk certified copies of the certificates herein described, which shall be filed in the judgment records of the Superior Court, and shall have the same force and effect for 20 years as a judgment in that court. No levy shall be made upon the real estate while it is occupied by the widow or widower, as the case may be. If the proceeds of the sale of any personalty or real estate, under the terms of this chapter, exceed the total amount paid as assistance under this chapter, such excess shall be returned to said person, and in the event of his death such excess shall be considered as the property of the deceased for proper administration proceedings. All funds reclaimed under these provisions shall be reimbursed to the county, State and Federal Government, in the same proportion as it was contributed. The county welfare agency shall be empowered to accept voluntary conveyance of real or personal property in lieu of issuance of execution. All real property acquired by execution sale or voluntary conveyance may be disposed of at public sale, or by sale on sealed bids in the discretion of the county welfare agency; after public advertisement at least once a week for 2 weeks prior to the sale, in a newspaper published in the county; provided, however, that the terms, conditions and consideration for such sale shall be first approved by the State Division of Public Welfare of the Department of Human Services. The county welfare agency is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver any and all documents necessary to convey title to a purchaser of such real or personal property, in exactly the same manner as any other corporate entity. Amended by L.1938, c. 361, p. 910, s. 11, eff. July 1, 1938; L.1945, c. 273, p. 809, s. 2; L.1947, c. 370, p. 1183, s. 1; L.1949, c. 247, p. 794, s. 2; L.1953, c. 42, p. 787, s. 33; L.1959, c. 128, p. 568, s. 2, eff. July 1, 1959; L.1979, c. 415, s. 1, eff. Feb. 8, 1980.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-114 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-114
Procedure where relief required by person having no settlement anywhere
Status: in_force

Where a poor person who requires relief in a municipality or county in which he is a resident and inhabitant, has not gained a settlement in any municipality or county within this state, or in any other state, the overseer shall provide relief. If it is ascertained that the poor person has no legal settlement in the municipality, the overseer shall proceed to remove him to the place from which he came by whatever lawful proceedings may be necessary to that end with the aid of the officers as provided in this chapter, and the expense of his removal shall be borne by the municipality from which he is removed.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-14 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-14
§ 44:1-14
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall elect from among its members a president, vice president and secretary-treasurer.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-105 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-105
Review of available data by commissioner.
Status: in_force

1. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall submit to the Food and Nutrition Service within the United States Department of Agriculture a request for a waiver, as authorized by 7 C.F.R. 273.24(f), of the time limit on benefits for able-bodied adults without dependents who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The commissioner shall seek either a Statewide waiver for time limits on benefits for this population, or a waiver for select geographic areas of the State. b. At least once annually after the submission of the waiver pursuant to subsection a. of this section, the commissioner shall conduct a review of available data on labor and employment in the State produced by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics in order to determine whether to submit a subsequent request for a waiver of the benefit time limit for able-bodied adults without dependents participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The review shall consider each criterion of eligibility for a waiver as well as the availability of opportunities that will fulfill the work requirement described in 7 C.F.R. 273.24(a). Based on the annual review conducted pursuant to this subsection, the commissioner shall submit a request for a waiver for the maximum number of areas which are eligible for a waiver. The waiver request shall be for all geographic areas which represent the largest number of individuals eligible for a waiver of the able-bodied adults without dependents time limits on the receipt of SNAP benefits. This support shall serve to fulfill the requirements described in 7 U.S.C. s.2015(o)(4)(A). L.2016, c.11, s.1 amended 2022, c.29.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-129 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-129
Petition for relief
Status: in_force

44:1-129. The director of welfare of a municipality shall by petition to the Superior Court, setting forth the necessary facts, apply for the person's relief in that manner, whereupon the court shall fix a date for hearing the petition within not less than ten days from the filing of the petition. Amended 1953,c.42,s.9; 1991,c.91,s.429.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-73 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-73
Implementation of Work First New Jersey program by municipal or county agency, reimbursement
Status: in_force

3. a. The county agency shall be responsible for implementing the Work First New Jersey program in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner and ensuring that all eligible persons residing in the county have access to benefits; except as otherwise provided in this subsection. (1) A municipality may continue to administer general public assistance for eligible single persons and couples without dependent children through the program in accordance with the provisions of P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et seq.), and fund the administrative costs thereof upon passage of a resolution. The resolution shall be passed no later than six months after the commissioner adopts regulations to effectuate these provisions. A copy of the resolution shall be filed with the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs within three days after its passage. The resolution shall include the reasons for the governing body's decision to administer the program. (2) The Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs shall not include the municipality's general public assistance budget in its budget review and approval process. (3) A municipality which administers general public assistance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be responsible for all administrative costs of providing benefits to eligible single persons and couples without dependent children. The State shall reimburse the municipality for 100% of cash assistance benefits paid to recipients of general public assistance. (4) If a municipality fails to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection, the commissioner is authorized to require the transfer of its administration of general public assistance to the county. (5) If the commissioner determines by financial or performance audit that a municipality has failed to administer benefits pursuant to this subsection in accordance with standards established by regulation of the commissioner, the commissioner is authorized to: take appropriate action pursuant to section 15 of P.L.1990, c.66 (C.30:1-12.2), recoup any funds identified by that audit, and require the transfer by the municipality of its administration of general public assistance to the county. Prior to effecting such a transfer, the commissioner shall specify in writing to the municipality the financial or performance deficiencies determined by audit and provide the municipality with a reasonable opportunity to correct those deficiencies, in accordance with a process to be established by regulation of the commissioner. The regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the form and manner for submission of a plan of correction by the municipality which sets forth the specific activities and time periods within which the deficiencies are to be corrected. If the municipality fails to correct these deficiencies, the commissioner may proceed with the transfer. (6) Within 30 days after the adoption of regulations to effectuate the purposes of this section, the commissioner shall notify each municipality in writing of its option to administer general public assistance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection or transfer its administration of general public assistance to the county . b. (1) The administration by county agencies of the program for eligible single persons and couples without dependent children shall commence January 1, 1998, in accordance with a schedule to be determined by the commissioner for the respective geographic areas of the State; except as provided in subsection a. of this section. In accordance with procedures established by the commissioner, the State shall reimburse the county for 100% of the administrative costs incurred by the county agency with respect to the provision of cash assistance benefits to the eligible single adults and couples without dependent children residing in a municipality which has transferred its administration of general public administration to the county, up to the maximum amount allocated for that county by the commissioner within the limits of available funds. (2) With respect to a municipality which has opted to continue to administer general public assistance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of subsection a. of this section, the commissioner is authorized to: provide for the issuance of cash assistance benefits, in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner, by paper check, electronic benefit distribution, or other appropriate means; and to require the municipality to report information to the commissioner which the commissioner deems necessary to the proper administration of the program through electronic means, as prescribed by regulation of the commissioner. c. The county agency and municipal welfare agency, and any other State, local, public or private entity or person working with the department, county agency or municipal welfare agency to effectuate the purposes of this act, shall collect and provide on a timely basis to the commissioner any information requested by the commissioner on the operation and administration of the program. d. For the first 12 months following the enactment of P.L.1997, c.37 (C.44:10-71 et al.), a county agency shall not enter into a contract with a private nonprofit or a private for profit entity for eligibility determination functions and benefit computation services that the county agency's current employees are capable of performing. L.1997,c.37,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-142 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-142
Contracts between overseers and relatives or others
Status: in_force

An overseer or his deputies may contract with relatives and others not otherwise chargeable by law who are able and willing to support and maintain or contribute to the support and maintenance of a poor person, whereby such relatives in consideration of the support and maintenance of the poor person may undertake and obligate themselves to that end, or induce such aid and support as may be possible.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-138 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-138
Notice of placement to boards of freeholders and children's guardians
Status: in_force

Within twenty-four hours of such placement the overseer shall give a written notice thereof to the state board of children's guardians and the board of chosen freeholders of the county wherein the child has a settlement or resides. The notice shall contain a description of the child embracing its name, age, sex, religion, faith of its parents, the names and addresses of all relatives legally liable for its care, date of placement, past and present address or place of abode, the length of time the family has received relief from the municipality or district, and such information as the overseer has been able to ascertain.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-3
Persons entitled to old age assistance; applications
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions of this chapter, every needy person, sixty-five years of age or upwards, residing in this State, and otherwise qualified as hereinafter set forth, shall be entitled to old age assistance. All persons wishing to make application for old age assistance shall have opportunity to do so and assistance shall be furnished with reasonable promptness to all of such persons who are found eligible. Amended by L.1938, c. 361, p. 901, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1938; L.1943, c. 164, p. 476, s. 2; L.1952, c. 24, p. 108, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1952.
N.J. Stat. § 44:14-4 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-4
Entitlement; certification
Status: in_force

On or before January 10 of each year the Commissioner of Human Services shall determine and certify to the chief financial officer of each eligible county the amount to which the county may be entitled under the provisions of this act. The State Treasurer, upon certification of the commissioner and upon warrant of the State Comptroller, shall, in the manner and subject to the restrictions provided in section 5 of this act, pay and distribute to each such county the amount determined and certified. L.1981,c.60,s.4; amended 1989,c.134,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-124 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-124
§ 44:4-124
Status: in_force

Such additional sums may be paid from unexpended balances not required by law to be expended for a specific purpose, or from contingent funds, where such exist. Where such balances are not available or adequate, or such funds do not exist, such money shall be raised by temporary loans or notes, certificates of indebtedness or temporary loan bonds to be issued as otherwise provided and limited by law for counties of this state, and the amounts necessary to pay such obligations shall be placed in the budget for the next ensuing fiscal year.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-5 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-5
§ 44:1-5
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders may erect all necessary buildings, make all necessary improvements and repairs, and alter any existing building for the use of the welfare-house, but the plans for such work shall first be approved by the state board and the state board of health.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-131 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-131
Deductions from amount of State aid payable to municipalities
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall deduct from the amount of the State aid payable to any municipality in any one year an amount equal to the amount by which the State aid paid to the municipality exceeded the cost of public assistance to the municipality, exclusive of the cost of administration thereof, or the total amount of State aid payable to such municipality, for any preceding year and if the amount of State aid payable to any such municipality in any year does not equal the amount of such excess the director shall withhold any State aid due the municipality for the succeeding and for subsequent years if necessary until the amount of State aid withheld from the municipality equals the total amount of such excess. L.1947, c. 156, p. 701, s. 25.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-37 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-37
§ 44:1-37
Status: in_force

When municipalities elect not to participate in such county purpose the procedure shall be as set forth in sections 44:1-61 to 44:1-63 of this title and as otherwise provided in this chapter, as in the case of the establishment of a welfare-house.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-134 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-134
§ 44:1-134
Status: in_force

The supervisor or superintendent of an almshouse or welfare-house shall within twenty-four hours of the commitment of a minor child under the age of eighteen years to the almshouse or welfare-house, notify the state board of children's guardians of that commitment.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-10.1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-10.1
Change of name to county board of social services; resolution or ordinance
Status: in_force

The governing body of any county may, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, change the name of the county welfare board to the county board of social services. L.1979, c. 9, s. 1, eff. Feb. 5, 1979.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-82 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-82
Inquiry into case by director
Status: in_force

When a person shall apply for relief for himself or another to a county welfare board, the director of welfare, under the direction of the board, shall inquire into the facts, conditions and circumstances of the case, and also into the matter of such person's settlement if it shall appear that such person is unable to earn a livelihood by his own labor and is a poor person and requires temporary or permanent relief. The director shall also ascertain the direct or indirect causes of poverty, and whether or not a person requiring permanent relief is without adequate home or without children, grandchildren, parents, grandparents or husband, who are by law required and able to maintain him and other persons who are willing to do so.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-157.1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-157.1
Rate of payment
Status: in_force

Whenever the Division of Public Welfare in the Department of Human Services provides payment for the funeral and burial or cremation of a recipient of aid to families with dependent children pursuant to P.L. 1959, c. 86 (C. 44:10-1 et seq.), general public assistance pursuant to P.L. 1947, c. 156 (C. 44:8-107 et seq.) or supplemental security income pursuant to P.L. 1973, c. 256 (C. 44:7-85 et seq.), the total allowable payment for funeral and burial or cremation including contributions by others, shall be at least 75% of the average cost for a proper funeral and burial charged by funeral directors in the locality in which the public assistance recipient is buried or cremated. L. 1985, c. 282, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-53 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-53
Borrowing money and issuing bonds to establish or enlarge welfare-house
Status: in_force

At any time after a vote by more than one county in favor of a district welfare-house as provided in this chapter, the boards of chosen freeholders may by joint resolution borrow money and issue bonds or other obligations therefor in the name of the counties concerned, and negotiate the same for the purpose of raising money necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter for the purpose of establishing, altering or enlarging the district welfare-house or its appurtenances. The procedure for the issuance of such bonds shall, except as otherwise provided in this chapter and to the extent of the purposes authorized in this chapter, be after the manner provided in article 1 of chapter 1 of the title Municipalities and Counties (s. 40:1-1 et seq.). The bonds shall: a. Be of a denomination of not less than one hundred dollars; b. Bear interest at a rate not higher than six per cent; c. Be denominated "District Welfare Bonds" of the counties to be named as obligated; d. Be payable pro rata as by this chapter provided for the payment of cost and expenses; e. Not be sold below par; and f. Not be subject to taxation except for state purposes. The respective counties jointly constructing, operating and maintaining the district welfare-house as provided in this chapter, excepting municipalities not participating, shall, in the manner indicated in the proceedings to bond the district, to be stated in the bonds, indicate the time, place and manner of payment of the principal and interest thereof, and be liable for the payment of such bonds, together with interest thereon in the proportion as in this chapter indicated for such cost and expense at the time of the adoption of the resolution of the board for the issuance thereof.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-19.8 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-19.8
Discharge
Status: in_force

Any lien so filed may be discharged by filing in the office in which it is entered a certificate setting forth that the same is discharged of record, signed and acknowledged by the director of the board of chosen freeholders of the county. L.1957, c. 139, p. 531, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-80 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-80
Removal of director of welfare from duties in adjoining municipality
Status: in_force

44:1-80. A director of welfare acting in contiguous or adjoining municipalities, as provided in section 44:1-79 of this Title, may be removed from his responsibilities and duties in the municipality other than that of his appointment, for cause or by reason of his inability to properly perform his authorized and required functions due to the size or population of the territory in an action by the governing body of either municipality against the other municipality, in the Superior Court. The court may proceed therein in a summary manner. The court by its judgment may terminate the contract and relieve the director of such duties and responsibilities and the additional salary theretofore agreed to be paid to him. Upon the removal of the director, the municipality may appoint one to act therein for the full term as provided in this chapter. Amended 1953,c.42,s.3; 1991,c.91,s.423.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-36 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-36
§ 44:4-36
Status: in_force

The director of welfare and the other officers and employees shall be subject to such rules and regulations in the discharge of their duties as may be provided by the county welfare board.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-6 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-6
Making of contract
Status: in_force

If a majority of all the ballots cast at the election referred to in section 44:5-5 of this title are in favor of the adoption of the provisions of sections 44:5-4 to 44:5-7 of this title, the proper municipal authorities shall enter into a contract as provided in section 44:5-4. If there is more than one hospital supported in whole or in part by private subscription, in the city, the proper municipal authorities may designate with which of the hospitals the contract shall be made, or enter into contracts with more than one of them and apportion the amount so to be raised by taxation among them, in the manner which in the discretion of the municipal authorities may be for the best interests of the public.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-67 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-67
§ 44:4-67
Status: in_force

When temporary relief is required by a poor person in any county in which he is a resident and inhabitant, whose place of settlement is in some other county in this state, the director of welfare shall provide and render temporary relief pending removal.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-57 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-57
Notice of readiness to accommodate poor of district
Status: in_force

When the buildings as constructed or altered and furnished are completed, the district welfare board shall notify the boards of chosen freeholders of each county that they are prepared to accommodate the poor of the contiguous and adjoining counties, which shall be denominated a district in the numerical order and by number as such districts are established. The notice shall be given to each of the county adjusters and overseers within the district, and also by publication at the same time in a newspaper published and circulated in the county seat of each of the counties acting jointly for the purpose, and, thereafter, the permanent poor shall be provided for by admission to the district welfare-house as provided by law for admission to and maintenance in an almshouse or county welfare-house.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-19.6 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-19.6
Property concerned
Status: in_force

The lien shall become binding upon any goods, rights, credits, chattels, moneys or effects which are held, for the present or subsequent use, of the person against whom the lien is filed, by any person, firm or corporation, after notice of the existence of the lien forwarded by certified mail to said person, firm or corporation, who or which shall thereafter be precluded from disposing of said property rights until said lien is satisfied or the county consents thereto and any person, firm or corporation disposing of such properties or moneys after receipt of such notice of lien shall be liable to the county for the value of such properties or moneys so disposed of, except that when the notice of the lien is served upon a banking institution the lien shall be effective against such banking institution only in the amount of the accumulated delinquent maintenance stated therein. L.1957, c. 139, p. 531, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-24 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-24
Supervision of relief and settlement of poor; complaints for prevention of cruelty
Status: in_force

The county welfare board, as the county bureau of relief shall have charge and supervision of the relief and settlement of the poor in its jurisdiction, subject to the provisions of this chapter, and may prefer complaints for the prevention of cruelty to children under the provisions of Title 9 of the Revised Statutes. Amended by L.1954, c. 31, p. 101, s. 1, eff. May 28, 1954.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-73.6 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-73.6
Rights of overseers of poor and deputy overseers unaffected for balance of term
Status: in_force

This act shall not affect the term, tenure or compensation of any overseer of the poor or deputy overseer of the poor, of any municipality, holding such office on the effective date hereof, and such overseer of the poor or deputy overseer of the poor, or both, shall continue to exercise the functions, powers and duties of his office, and maintain the records and property thereof, as required by law, for the balance of the term during which he shall have been appointed, and any term or terms for which he may be reappointed to succeed himself in such office; and at the expiration of such term or terms such functions, powers and duties, records and property, shall be transferred to and vested in, and shall be exercised and used by, the director of welfare of such municipality appointed pursuant to the provisions of chapter one hundred thirty of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty. L.1946, c. 110, p. 342, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-52 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-52
§ 44:4-52
Status: in_force

Directors of welfare under the direction of the respective county welfare boards shall make to their respective county boards of chosen freeholders annually within thirty days after the first meeting thereof in the year, a report or reports, in writing, which shall be a summary of the entries of the records mentioned and authorized in this chapter.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-121 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-121
§ 44:4-121
Status: in_force

On November first of each year thereafter, the county welfare board shall forward to the board of chosen freeholders an estimate of the amount necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter, and to the governing bodies of the respective municipalities of the county estimates of the respective amounts necessary for the relief of the temporary or outdoor poor in the respective municipalities for the ensuing calendar or fiscal year.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-114 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-114
§ 44:4-114
Status: in_force

If it shall appear that the person visited and aided is a poor person within the meaning of this chapter, the physician or nurse attending him shall report the fact in writing to the director of welfare of the county welfare board, which may grant such further medical, surgical or other relief to the poor person as the circumstances may require or as it may deem necessary.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-10 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-10
Annual appropriations in certain municipalities to maintain patients or assist hospitals
Status: in_force

A village, borough, town or township which has no hospital located therein maintained by the municipality may make an annual appropriation, in the manner in which appropriations for other municipal purposes are made, of a sum of money not exceeding an amount equal to one-tenth of one per cent of the total valuations of real and personal property of the municipality, which sum so appropriated shall be included in the annual tax levy of the municipality and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other municipal taxes. The sum shall be applied to the purpose of supporting and maintaining such indigent persons residing in the municipality as may be sent by order of an overseer of the poor or other proper authority of the municipality to any hospital duly incorporated under the laws of this state and located in the municipality or in any other municipality in the same or an adjoining county, and of assisting in the maintenance of any such hospital furnishing hospital service to the residents of the municipality.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-23 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-23
§ 44:7-23
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall report to the state division at such times and in such manner and form as the division may prescribe, the number of applications granted and the grants of old age assistance changed, revoked or suspended under this chapter by such county welfare board, together with copies of all applications and supporting affidavits received, and a statement of the action of such county welfare board thereon, and shall report the amount of assistance to aged needy persons paid out under this chapter by the county welfare board and make such other reports, as the state division may require either by rules or requests in individual cases.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-61 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-61
§ 44:4-61
Status: in_force

No minor who is brought into any county in this state, or who is placed out in any family therein by any person, society or corporation, public or private, of this or any other state, shall gain a settlement.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-65 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-65
§ 44:4-65
Status: in_force

Permanent relief shall not be rendered by any county welfare board to any person who is otherwise lawfully removable and who has no settlement in the county in which relief is sought or necessary, but all such persons shall be temporarily provided for or admitted to the county welfare-house pending such removal, and shall be removed by such procedure as may be lawfully necessary by the director of welfare, as provided in this chapter, or as otherwise may be provided by law.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-54 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-54
Rules, regulations
Status: in_force

13. The commissioner, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act and to comply with the requirements of Pub.L.104-193. L.1997,c.14,s.13.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-66 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-66
Procedure where relief sought by person having no settlement anywhere
Status: in_force

Where relief is required by a poor person in any county in which he is a resident and inhabitant, who shall not have gained a settlement in any county within this state, or in any other state, the director of welfare, under the direction of the county welfare board, shall provide relief. If it is ascertained that the person has no legal settlement in the county, the director of welfare shall proceed to remove the person to the place from which he came by whatever lawful proceedings may be necessary to that end with the aid of the officers as provided in this chapter.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-57 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-57
Place of settlement in general
Status: in_force

Every person of full age who is a resident of, and domiciled without interruption in any county for five years, excluding any time spent by such person in a charitable or correctional institution, shall be deemed settled in such county and shall so remain until he has gained a like settlement in some other county, or has removed from this state and remained therefrom continuously for one year, or has gained a legal settlement elsewhere in this state. A person who has removed from this state for more than one year shall not retain his settlement in any county in this state.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-6.2 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-6.2
Negotiated agreement not in compliance with federal law and endangers receipt of federal funds; notice; hearing; determination; authority of commissioner
Status: in_force

a. If the Commissioner of Human Services determines that (1) a provision in an agreement between a county welfare agency and an authorized employee organization is not in compliance with federal law, and (2) continued receipt of federal funds is thereby endangered, then the commissioner shall so advise the county welfare agency and authorized employee organization in writing and specify the federal law with which the agreement is not in compliance and the reason why it is not in compliance. b. If the commissioner is notified by the federal government that the State's administration of a federal assistance program does not appear to be in compliance with federal law because of a provision in a negotiated agreement between a county welfare agency and an authorized employee organization, the commissioner shall so notify the county welfare agency and authorized employee organization in writing. c. When the commissioner notifies a county welfare agency and authorized employee organization pursuant to this section, the commissioner shall provide the county welfare agency and authorized employee organization with (1) an opportunity to meet with him to determine if the commissioner's finding is correct and (2) an opportunity to conform voluntarily to any change found by the commissioner to be necessary in order to be in compliance with federal law. d. If the commissioner subsequently makes a final determination that the county welfare agency's and authorized employee organization's negotiated agreement is not in compliance with federal law, he shall exercise the authority provided to him in R.S. 44:7-6 over wages and terms and conditions of employment in that county welfare agency only to the extent necessary to ensure that the agreement is in compliance with federal law. L.1984, c. 14, s. 2, eff. March 8, 1984.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-2 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-2
Chapter inoperative until adopted upon referendum
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall be and remain inoperative as to a particular county until the chapter has been adopted upon referendum as provided in article 17 of this chapter (s. 44:4-129 et seq.).
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-128 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-128
Determination annually of "preceding year's ratables" and public assistance loads of municipalities
Status: in_force

In each year, the commissioner shall ascertain and determine as to each municipality in the State: (a) The sum total of the net valuation taxable, and the value of the second-class railroad property, therein, as exhibited in the abstract of ratables of the several counties for the preceding year as made out by the State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance and filed in the office of the State Comptroller, which sum total shall be known as the municipalities "preceding year's ratables" ; (b) The cost of public assistance, exclusive of the cost of administration thereof, for the preceding year therein, which shall be known as the municipalities "preceding year's public assistance load" ; (c) The cost of public assistance, exclusive of the cost of administration thereof, for the current year therein, which shall be known as the municipalities "current year's public assistance load" ; (d) The number of mills on each dollar of the "preceding year's ratables" which would have to be levied in each municipality to raise an amount equal to the "preceding year's public assistance load" which millage shall be known as the municipalities "preceding year's public assistance millage." In determining any municipality's "preceding year's public assistance load" and "current year's public assistance load," the commissioner may include therein the cost to the municipality of public assistance paid or payable by the welfare board of the county. L.1947, c. 156, p. 699, s. 22.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-1
Definitions.
Status: in_force

44:4-1. As used in this chapter: "Almshouse" means a place for the maintenance of the poor at the public expense of a county or municipality, prior to the establishment of a welfare-house. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "County adjuster" means the official of that designation authorized to act in the cases of commitment or admission of persons who have a mental illness to State or county hospitals for the insane. "County welfare board" means the board of a single county authorized to have charge, supervision and control of a county welfare-house and the administration of the settlement and relief of the poor for such county and to supervise through a director of welfare such work for or in relation to the poor as directed or authorized. "Director of welfare" means an employee of a county welfare board with authority to act for it and under its direction, and to act for and in lieu of overseers where there are none, and perform the functions of and replace the office of overseer. "May" shall be construed to be permissive. "Municipality" shall not include, in meaning, a county, unless otherwise indicated by the context, but shall include any city, borough, township, town, village or municipality governed by an improvement commission. "Permanent or indoor poor," as found in this chapter, shall mean a disabled person who has been diagnosed by a regular practicing physician as being unemployable due to a mental or physical condition, providing such condition is in the physician's opinion of permanent nature, and further providing that the disabled person is not eligible for any other type of categorical aid. "Poor person" means a permanently disabled person who is without means of support as defined above. "Public charge" means a person to whom it is necessary to furnish proper relief as provided in this chapter. "Settlement of a person" means his right under the provisions of this chapter to relief or maintenance and support in any county or counties. "State board" means the State Board of Human Services. "Temporary or outdoor poor" means poor persons who can be relieved temporarily at their domicile or without being maintained in an almshouse or welfare-house. "Welfare-house" means a place where the poor are maintained at the public expense under the superintendence of a county welfare board in any county. "Disabled person" means any person entitled to relief under this chapter. amended 1947, c.373; 2013, c.103, s.118.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-87 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-87
Inquiry into application for relief
Status: in_force

When a person shall apply for relief for himself or another to an overseer or deputy, the overseer shall inquire into the facts, conditions and circumstances of the case, and also into the matter of the person's settlement if it shall appear that the person is unable to earn a livelihood by his own labor and is a poor person and requires temporary or permanent relief. The overseer shall also ascertain the direct or indirect causes of poverty, and whether or not the person requiring permanent relief is without adequate home or without children, grandchildren, parents, grandparents, or husband who are by law required and able to maintain him and other persons who are willing to do so.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-84 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-84
§ 44:4-84
Status: in_force

If any such poor person is receiving shelter in some suitable home or habitation, and it is possible to maintain him as adequately and profitably therein as in an almshouse or welfare-house, temporary relief may be granted and furnished by the director of welfare subject to the approval of the welfare board having charge of the administration of relief by such director of welfare to such poor person in such home or habitation, otherwise, he shall be committed and removed to the proper welfare-house in the county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-56 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-56
Findings, declarations relative to Work First New Jersey Program.
Status: in_force

2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The federal "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996," Pub.L.104-193, establishes the federal block grant for temporary assistance for needy families and provides the opportunity for a state to establish and design its own welfare program; b. Work and the earning of income promote the best interests of families and children; c. Working individuals and families needing temporary assistance should have the transitional support necessary to obtain and keep a job in order to be able to avoid cycling back onto public assistance; d. Teenage pregnancy is counter to the best interests of children; e. Successful welfare reform requires the active involvement of the private sector as well as all departments of State government; f. Personal and family security and stability, including the protection of children and vulnerable adults, are important to the establishment and maintenance of successful family life and childhood development and a family's inability or failure to qualify for benefits under the Work First New Jersey program established pursuant to this act shall not in and of itself be the basis for the separation of a dependent child from his family or the justification for the resource family care placement of a dependent child; g. Children and teenagers need the benefits of the support and guidance which a family structure provides; the welfare system has provided a vehicle for breaking up families by giving teenage mothers the means to shift their financial dependence from their parents to the State; in the process, these youths deprive themselves of the education and family structure necessary to support themselves and their babies; and the support and structure provided by families are important to the development of a child's maximum potential; and h. The Work First New Jersey program established pursuant to this act incorporates and builds upon the fundamental concepts of the Family Development Initiative established pursuant to P.L.1991, c.523 (C.44:10-19 et seq.) in a manner that is consistent with the federal program of temporary assistance for needy families, by establishing requirements for: time limits on cash assistance; the participation of recipients in work activities; enhanced efforts to establish paternity and establish and enforce child support obligations; sanctions for failure to comply with program requirements; a cap on the use of funds for administrative costs; the maintenance of State and county financial support of the program; teenage parent recipients to live at home and finish high school; and restrictions on eligibility for benefits for aliens. L.1997,c.38,s.2; amended 2004, c.130, s.117.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-30.2 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-30.2
Persons admitted to pledge property; lien; agreement to reimburse
Status: in_force

Every county welfare board, operating under chapter one of Title 44 of the Revised Statutes, shall require, as a condition to the admission of any person to the county welfare-house, that all or any part of the property, either real or personal, of such person, either presently owned or which may subsequently be acquired, be pledged to said county welfare board as a guaranty for the reimbursement of the cost of the care and maintenance of such person at the county welfare-house, and the total amount of the cost thereof shall become a lien upon any lands owned or to be owned by such person, which lien shall have priority over all unrecorded encumbrances. The county welfare board shall take from each applicant a properly acknowledged agreement to reimburse for all benefits furnished, and pursuant to such agreement said applicant shall assign to the welfare board, as collateral security for such benefits, all or any part of his real and personal property and insurance when the terms of the policy so permit, as the board shall specify. The agreement to reimburse shall contain a release of dower or curtesy, as the case may be, of the spouse of the person so benefited, and such release shall be as valid and effectual as if the spouse had joined the applicant in a conveyance of the property to a third person; the maintenance and support furnished shall be good and valuable consideration therefor. L.1940, c. 119, p. 263, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 44:11-2 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-2
Appointment of representative payee; contents of complaints.
Status: in_force

2. Whenever it appears necessary to appoint a representative payee for a recipient who is functionally incapacitated, a complaint seeking such appointment may be filed with the court by the welfare board. The complaint shall set forth the name, age, and place of residence of the recipient; the name and place of residence of the nearest relative of the recipient, if known; and that the recipient has been found otherwise eligible to receive a grant of public assistance. L.1964, c.155, s.2; amended 2013, c.103, s.121.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-118 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-118
Duties of welfare director
Status: in_force

12. The director of welfare of each municipality shall as to that municipality, or the county welfare director shall as to that county, as appropriate: (a) Supervise by periodic investigation every person receiving public assistance, such investigation to be made by visitation at least once a month; (b) Reconsider from month to month the amount and nature of public assistance given and alter, amend or suspend the same when the circumstances so require; (c) Devise ways and means for bringing persons unable to maintain themselves to self-support or to the support of any other person or agency able and willing so to do; (d) Keep full and complete records of such investigation, supervision, assistance and rehabilitation, and of all certifications of persons for employment or benefits and cancellations thereof, in such manner and form as required by the commissioner; and (e) Bring about appropriate action for commitment to any State or county institution when the best interests of the needy persons would be so served. L.1947,c.156,s.12; amended 1995,c.259,s.20.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-30 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-30
§ 44:4-30
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall certify all bills and accounts including salaries and wages, and transmit them to the board of chosen freeholders of the county which shall make payment out of the appropriations therefor in the same manner as other charges against the county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-154 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-154
Hospitalization and other relief where treatment is urgent
Status: in_force

In all cases wherein medical or surgical treatment is urgent a person may be removed and admitted to a public or private hospital in the municipality in which he is found, and the director or those having charge of the hospital shall within a reasonable time ascertain from the sick person his name and place of residence, and if it shall appear that he is a poor person within the meaning of this chapter, a notice in writing shall immediately be sent to the overseer of the poor of the municipality from which the poor person was removed or where he resided prior to his removal. Upon receipt of the notice the overseer shall proceed and provide for the relief of the sick indigent person in the manner provided in this chapter, and the expense thereof shall be borne by the municipality in which he has gained a settlement.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-81 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-81
Certificate of appointment; filing
Status: in_force

An overseer shall forthwith or within ten days after his appointment file with the commissioner a certificate properly authenticated by the clerk of the governing body of the municipality in which the overseer has jurisdiction, showing the date of his appointment and his post-office address.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-95 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-95
§ 44:4-95
Status: in_force

The director of welfare under the direction of the county welfare board shall within twenty-four hours of the commitment of all minor children under the age of eighteen years to the welfare-house, notify the state board of children's guardians of such commitment.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-105 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-105
Illegitimate minor children
Status: in_force

Illegitimate minor children shall follow and have the settlement of their mother, unless the father is legally found or admitted by him to be such at the time and place of their birth, in which case they shall follow and have the father's settlement. If neither parent has a settlement, then it shall be in the municipality or county in which the minor child was born, if the birth occurred in this state. Such minor children born in charitable or correctional institutions, or while the mother is legally an inmate thereof, whether on parole or leave of absence, shall be chargeable to the place of the settlement of the mother or father or from which they were admitted or committed, rather than to the place where that institution is located.
N.J. Stat. § 44:2-1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-1
§ 44:2-1
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders of a county may, if it shall deem it necessary or expedient, establish and maintain an almshouse at such place in the county as the board shall select.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-142 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-142
Officers and board members failing to comply
Status: in_force

If any municipal officer, board or body shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any of the provisions of this act, such officer, and members of such board or body shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. L.1947, c. 156, p. 705, s. 36.
N.J. Stat. § 44:11-4 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-4
Hearing; evidence; appointment of representative.
Status: in_force

4. Upon the filing of a complaint and verified statement as provided by P.L.1964, c.155 (C.44:11-1 et seq.), the court shall proceed in a summary manner to hear testimony for the purpose of determining whether the recipient is functionally incapacitated. The written certification of two physicians who have been in the actual practice of medicine and surgery in this State for at least five years shall be sufficient, but not required, evidence to establish the condition of the recipient. If the court is satisfied that the recipient is functionally incapacitated, the court shall appoint a fit and proper person as representative payee for the recipient. L.1964, c.155, s.4; amended 2013, c.103, s.123.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-87 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-87
Findings, declarations regarding individual development accounts
Status: in_force

2. a. The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) Economic well-being does not come solely from income, spending and consumption, but also requires savings, investment and accumulation of assets, since assets can improve economic stability, connect people with a viable and hopeful future, stimulate development of human and other capital, yield personal and social dividends and enhance the welfare of offspring. (2) With the enactment of the "Work First New Jersey Act," P.L.1997, c.38 (C.44:10-55 et seq.) and companion legislation, emphasizing moving people off of public assistance and into employment, there is an urgent need to provide incentives for savings accounts that will complement and stabilize the movement of people from public assistance and into employment. (3) Income-based social policy should be complemented with asset-based social policy, because while income-based policies ensure that consumption needs, including food, child care, rent, clothing and health care are met, asset-based policies provide the means to achieve some degree of economic self-sufficiency. (4) The State of New Jersey should develop policies, such as individual development accounts, that promote higher rates of personal savings and net private domestic investment. b. It is the intent of the Legislature, therefore, to provide for the establishment of individual development accounts which accounts are designed to: (1) provide individuals and families, especially those with limited means, an opportunity to accumulate assets; (2) facilitate and mobilize savings; (3) promote education, home ownership and micro enterprise development; and (4) stabilize families and build communities. L.2001,c.93,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-74 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-74
§ 44:4-74
Status: in_force

When the removal of a poor person from the place of his domicile or where he is found to the place of his settlement is lawful and necessary, it shall be made by means of a written notice signed by the removing official to the officer having jurisdiction in the place to which the person is to be removed, that on a day certain, not less than ten nor more than twelve days, after the date and mailing of the notice, an order will be made by the removing director of welfare, that the poor person be removed to the place of his settlement, stating the reasons therefor, the place of his settlement or the place where he became poor prior to his becoming an inhabitant of the county or municipality therein from whence he is to be removed.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-72 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-72
Removal of poor person to place of legal settlement; procedure
Status: in_force

44:4-72. When the removal of a poor person from the place of his domicile or where he is found to the place of his settlement in the same county is lawful and necessary, it shall be made by means of a written notice signed by the director of welfare of the county to the governing body having jurisdiction in the place to which such person is to be removed, that on a day certain, not less than ten nor more than twelve days after the date and mailing of the notice, an order will be made by the director of welfare that the poor person be removed to the place of his settlement, stating the reasons therefor, the place of his settlement or the place where he became poor prior to his becoming an inhabitant of the municipality from whence he is to be removed. On the day named in the notice, the order for removal shall be made by the director of welfare of the county, and thereafter the poor person shall forthwith be removed by the director of welfare to the place indicated in the notice upon the making of an order that the poor person has no settlement in the municipality in which he is a resident or is found, and has a settlement or became poor in the other municipality in the same county prior to his becoming a resident and inhabitant or being found in the municipality from whence he is to be removed, unless within ten days after the mailing of the written notice the governing body to whom it shall have been mailed shall proceed to contest the allegation of the settlement of the poor person or of the right to remove him to the municipality in which it has jurisdiction. The contest shall be made by notice to the director of welfare giving the original notice, fixing a time and place when the governing body shall apply to the Superior Court, when and where the court shall hear and determine the controversy, which time and place shall not be less than ten or more than thirty days from the time of giving the original notice thereof. On failure to resist the removal by the receiving municipality the receiving municipality may not contest receiving the poor person, and he shall be removed by the county welfare director at the cost and expense of the municipality from which he is removed, out of the appropriation made by the municipality for the relief of the temporary or outdoor poor of the municipality, but for good cause shown for the failure to contest the removal the receiving municipality may, within thirty days after the receipt of the poor person in its municipality, apply to the Superior Court to review the proceeding and to make such revised order and disposition for the care and relief of the poor person and his removal, if lawful, as may be proper and necessary. Amended 1991,c.91,s.435.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-42 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-42
Establishment, updating of standard of need
Status: in_force

9. The commissioner shall establish by regulation a standard of need and update the standard annually. The standard of need shall serve only as a benchmark against which the Legislature may decide on appropriations to fund cash assistance benefits to recipients. L.1997,c.13,s.9.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-26 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-26
§ 44:1-26
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall appoint such other officers and employees as may be necessary.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-121 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-121
Inquiry by director
Status: in_force

15. When a person shall apply for public assistance for himself or his dependents, the municipal or county director of welfare, as appropriate, shall inquire into the facts, conditions and circumstances of the case, including customary place of abode, family connections, living conditions, resources, income, and causes direct and indirect of the person's need, and such other matters as the commissioner may require, making a written record thereof in such manner as may be prescribed by the commissioner. Upon ascertainment of the foregoing facts, conditions and circumstances, the municipal or county director of welfare, as appropriate, shall render assistance to an eligible applicant or his dependents. The cost of public assistance shall be borne by the State. L.1947,c.156,s.15; amended 1977,c.408,s.2; 1995,c.259,s.23.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-13 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-13
§ 44:1-13
Status: in_force

Members shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses, on the approval of the superintendent of welfare, all of which shall be audited and paid in the same manner as other expenses are paid in and for the county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-18 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-18
Investigation of and notice to applicant; review of determination
Status: in_force

When the county welfare board receives an application for old age assistance, an investigation and record shall promptly be made of the circumstances of the applicant. The object of such investigation shall be to ascertain the facts supporting the application and such other information as may be required by the rules of the State division. When immediate need is apparent and the applicant provides evidence of eligibility by a written statement signed and verified under oath, the director of welfare shall issue a grant of old age assistance effective as of the date of application and pending completion of such investigation. Upon the completion of such investigation the county welfare board shall decide whether the applicant is eligible for and should receive or continue to receive old age assistance, the amount of assistance, the manner of paying or providing it, and as appropriate, the date on which the assistance shall begin; provided, however, that if the completed investigation shows the applicant to have been ineligible for reasons other than need, the county welfare board shall not be obligated, in the absence of fraud or misrepresentation, to take action for the recovery of any assistance granted pending completion of such investigation. It shall notify the applicant of its decision in writing. The county welfare board shall at once report to the State division its decision in each case together with copies of such supporting records as the State division may require. Such decision shall be final, except that where an application is not acted upon by the county welfare board within 30 days after the filing of the application, or the application is denied, or the grant is deemed inadequate, either by the State division or by the applicant, the State division may review the case in its discretion or the applicant may appeal to the State division by filing a petition with the division setting forth the facts in full as to the necessity of such assistance. Whereupon a representative of the State division shall hold a fair hearing on the appeal, and if the appeal is sustained by the State division the payments of assistance in the amount determined by the State division must be paid by said county welfare board as herein provided. Amended by L.1938, c. 361, p. 910, s. 12, eff. July 1, 1938; L.1943, c. 164, p. 478, s. 5; L.1944, c. 84, p. 166, s. 3; L.1953, c. 213, p. 1617, s. 5; L.1968, c. 139, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; L.1969, c. 222, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-9 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-9
§ 44:5-9
Status: in_force

The board or body having charge of the finances of a city which at the time does not maintain and operate a municipal hospital for contagious or infectious diseases exclusively, may make a contract or contracts, not exceeding the term of five years at a time and without advertising for bids, with any corporation or person properly equipped for the purpose, for the care and treatment of such patients suffering from contagious, infectious or other disease as that board or body may consider and determine should be so cared for and treated at public expense. Such board or body shall annually during the continuance of the contract or contracts cause the sum needed to meet such expenditures for that year to be raised by taxation.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-28 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-28
Meetings of board
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall meet regularly once each month and at such other times as may be necessary or as it may by rule provide. When a welfare-house has been established the board shall meet at such welfare-house or, in case of emergency, at the office of the county welfare board, at least once in every month, and at such other times and places as may be prescribed in the by-laws or rules of the board. The board shall hold its annual meeting within two months after the close of the fiscal year. Amended by L.1938, c. 194, p. 422, s. 3, eff. May 16, 1938; L.1943, c. 112, p. 344, s. 1, eff. April 7, 1943.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-159 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-159
Rebates for pharmaceutical products; requirements.
Status: in_force

14. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall contract with manufacturers of pharmaceutical products to provide rebates for pharmaceutical products covered under the Work First New Jersey General Public Assistance program (WFNJ-GA), established pursuant to P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et seq.) on the same basis as is required under the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled" program established pursuant to P.L.1975, c.194 (C.30:4D-20 et seq.) and "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program" established pursuant to P.L.2001, c.96 (C.30:4D-43 et seq.) and in section 1927(a) through (c) of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. s.1396r-8(a)-(c). b. The contracts entered into pursuant to this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of P.L.2005, c.156 (C.30:4J-8 et al.). (1) A manufacturer who is participating in the WFNJ-GA program on the date of enactment of P.L.2005, c.156 shall enter into a contract, as a condition of continued participation in the program. (2) A manufacturer who was not participating in the WFNJ-GA program on the date of enactment of P.L.2005, c.156 may enter into a contract with the commissioner and become a participating manufacturer. (3) A manufacturer who participates in the WFNJ-GA program pursuant to this section shall provide to the commissioner such information as the commissioner may request to carry out the purposes of this section. L.2005,c.156,s.14.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-31 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-31
Exercise by superintendent or another of power of overseer; general jurisdiction
Status: in_force

The superintendent of welfare shall, in addition to his duties as chief executive officer of the welfare-house and welfare board, have general jurisdiction throughout the county, or portion of the county which maintains a welfare-house as in this chapter provided, and the authority and power of an overseer with the consent and approval of the governing body in all municipalities which have no duly constituted overseer performing those duties by contract or otherwise; but the welfare board may designate some officer other than the superintendent of welfare to exercise the power of an overseer, and he shall, in such work as overseer in a municipality, be subject to all lawful rules and regulations of the welfare board. The expense of the work of overseer by the superintendent shall be a charge upon the municipalities of the county so participating, to be levied, assessed and collected therefrom by the board of chosen freeholders in the manner in which other county expenses are collected.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-32 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-32
§ 44:1-32
Status: in_force

Upon the certificate of the state board that the housing conditions and accommodations are sufficient and adequate for the purpose, and the approval of the state board of health that the sanitary conditions are such as to properly safeguard the health of the poor persons to be maintained therein, the board of chosen freeholders of a county may contract with the board of chosen freeholders of another county to board and care for poor persons requiring permanent relief of such county, excepting municipalities thereof which elect not to participate in the county plan and which maintain their own permanent poor, and such contract authorized by the board and entered into by the directors of the counties concerned shall provide for the permanent maintenance and relief of such poor persons. A county so contracting may maintain its permanent poor in the almshouse or welfare-house in the other contracting county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-46 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-46
§ 44:1-46
Status: in_force

Like qualifications and authority shall vest in a district welfare board as is vested in the welfare board of a single county and as is authorized in this chapter.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-10 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-10
Findings, declarations
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares: that providing the means and opportunity for recipients of public assistance to enter the economic mainstream and to realize economic achievement is both a morally right and economically sound investment in the future of our economy, our labor force and our children; that our current welfare system does not do enough to help its recipients become economically self-sufficient even though most people who receive public assistance would rather work or prepare for work than remain indefinitely trapped in the oppressive cycle of welfare dependency; that in this time of increasing international economic competition, the productivity of every worker and potential worker is an important concern for all Americans; that our citizenry has always placed great value on work and self-reliance; and that this State should provide the relevant education, training, employment and supportive services necessary to enable public assistance recipients to realize economic achievement and thereby become self-sufficient. L. 1987, c. 282, s. 2; per s.11 as amended by s.15 of 1991, c.523, expired July 1, 1995.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-8 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-8
§ 44:7-8
Status: in_force

The county welfare boards shall receive and act upon applications for assistance under and in accordance with this chapter, and do all other acts and things necessary in connection with the same for the purpose of administering and carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Funds for the administration of this chapter, and the payment of old age assistance granted thereunder, shall be provided by the board of chosen freeholders of each and every county and by the state in the manner hereinafter provided.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-17 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-17
§ 44:1-17
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall so equip and maintain the welfare-house as to provide proper heat and all furniture, materials and supplies, medical and otherwise, as may be necessary for the adequate maintenance of the permanent poor.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-133 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-133
§ 44:1-133
Status: in_force

The sum ordered to be paid for the maintenance and support of a poor person in the home as provided in this article shall be a charge against the municipality, county or district in which the poor person has a settlement, and shall be payable monthly upon the application of the overseer or the superintendent out of the funds from which other expenses of relief and settlement of the permanent poor are paid. The sum shall be for use only for the care and maintenance of the person for whom such relief has been ordered.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-105 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-105
Sequestration of estate
Status: in_force

44:4-105. The Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part may: a. Issue process for the immediate sequestration of the personal estate and the rents and profits of the real estate of the person charged as provided in section 44:4-104 of this Title; b. Appoint the director of welfare of the county, or another person, receiver thereof; and c. Cause the personal estate and the rents and profits of the real estate, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be applied toward the maintenance and support as to the court shall from time to time seem reasonable and just. Amended 1953,c.42,s.25; 1991,c.91,s.441.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-123 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-123
Order after complete investigation
Status: in_force

The director of welfare upon completion of investigation shall determine whether or not continued assistance is necessary, and shall make such order as in his judgment is warranted, having due regard to the circumstances disclosed by investigation. L.1947, c. 156, p. 698, s. 17.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-16 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-16
Record of reimbursement agreements; satisfaction
Status: in_force

The county clerks or registers of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, shall record in a book to be known as "reimbursement agreements" the said certificates, and shall make a complete alphabetical index to the same, and no clerk or register shall charge any fee therefor. Whenever a county shall have received satisfaction for such judgments, the county welfare board shall enter an acknowledgment of satisfaction upon the record of said judgments, without charge. Amended by L.1953, c. 42, p. 788, s. 34, eff. March 19, 1953.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-73.2 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-73.2
Municipal director of welfare deemed referred to by mention of overseer, etc.
Status: in_force

Whenever the terms "overseer of the poor," "overseer," "deputy overseer of the poor," and "deputy overseer," occur or any reference is made to any of said terms, in any law, they, and each of them, shall be deemed to mean or refer to the municipal director of welfare appointed pursuant to the provisions of chapter one hundred thirty of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty. L.1946, c. 110, p. 341, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 44:3-1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-1
Erecting and improving buildings; acquiring land; names for buildings
Status: in_force

The governing body of every municipality may: a. Erect, extend, alter and improve such buildings as may be necessary for the housing of the poor of the municipality; and b. Acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation the necessary land for that purpose. c. By resolution, adopt an official name for such building or buildings as are used for the housing of the poor. Amended by L.1947, c. 184, p. 830, s. 1, eff. May 23, 1947.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-76 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-76
Removal
Status: in_force

An overseer may, except as otherwise provided in section 44:1-77 of this title, be removed by the municipal governing body for cause upon written charges made by a citizen, after a hearing at least one week's notice of which shall be given the overseer.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-10 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-10
§ 44:4-10
Status: in_force

In order to meet the expense of erecting additions to or new buildings or accommodations at any county almshouse buildings or welfare-houses, or making repairs to any such buildings or providing proper furniture therefor or apparatus for lighting, heating, or otherwise fitting up the same, the board of chosen freeholders of any county lawfully authorized to maintain welfare-houses, may from time to time issue bonds in the manner otherwise provided by law in the corporate name and under the corporate seal of the county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-145.3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-145.3
Allocation of functions, powers, and duties
Status: in_force

30. The county welfare director of each county is authorized to allocate the functions, powers and duties of each municipal welfare agency in the county transferred pursuant to P.L.1995, c.259 (C.40A:4-6.1 et al.) among the existing offices in the county welfare agency. L.1995,c.259,s.30.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-111.3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-111.3
Report
Status: in_force

3. The commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act, and annually thereafter, on the actions taken to carry out the provisions of this act and the results thereof, and shall accompany that report with such recommendations for administrative or legislative actions as the commissioner deems appropriate. L.1994,c.147,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-3
Construction in general
Status: in_force

The provisions contained in this chapter shall not be construed to be exclusive. A particular grant of power contained in this chapter shall be held to be in specification but not in limitation of general powers.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-14 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-14
Recipient to pledge property
Status: in_force

44:7-14. (a) Every county welfare board shall require, as a condition to granting assistance in any case, that all or any part of the property, either real or personal, of a person applying for old age assistance, be pledged to said county welfare board as a guaranty for the reimbursement of the funds so granted as old age assistance pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The county welfare board shall take from each applicant a properly acknowledged agreement to reimburse for all advances granted, and pursuant to such agreement, said applicant shall assign to the welfare board, as collateral security for such advances, all or any part of his personal property as the board shall specify. The agreement to reimburse shall provide that the filing of notice thereof as hereinafter provided, is to have the same force and effect as a judgment of the Superior Court. It shall contain therein a release of dower or curtesy, as the case may be, of the spouse of the recipient of old age assistance, and the spouse shall agree to reimburse the county welfare board for all advances made to the recipient. Such release and joinder shall be as valid and effectual as if the spouse had joined the recipient in a conveyance of the property to a third person, and the grant of old age assistance, being contingent upon such joinder by the spouse, shall be good and valuable consideration therefor. Old age assistance shall not be granted to any applicant without joinder by the spouse in the agreement to reimburse except upon the showing of good and sufficient cause as the State Division shall by regulation define. (b) Upon making a grant of old age assistance the county welfare board shall file with the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, in any county, a notice of the above mentioned agreement to reimburse, which notice as of the date of such filing shall have the same effect as a lien by judgment of the Superior Court, and any real estate or lands in which the recipient or spouse has a title or interest, shall thereupon become charged and encumbered with a lien for old age assistance granted the recipient and said notice shall have priority over all unrecorded encumbrances. No fees or costs shall be paid for filing such notices. Amended 1938,c.361,s.10; 1943,c.164,s.5; 1945,c.273,s.1; 1953,c.42,s.32; 1991,c.91,s.443.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-58 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-58
Establishment of Work First New Jersey program
Status: in_force

4. a. The Work First New Jersey program is established in the Department of Human Services. The commissioner shall take such actions as are necessary to implement and operate the program in accordance with the provisions of the federal "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996," Pub.L.104-193. The commissioner may delegate to the Commissioner of Labor, by agreement, any responsibility to assist a person in the transition to a work activity. b. The program shall replace programs which were in effect prior to the enactment of this act, including : aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) pursuant to P.L.1959, c.86 (C.44:10-1 et seq.) and emergency assistance for AFDC recipient families; general public assistance (GA) pursuant to P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et seq.), emergency assistance for GA recipients, and the GA employability program; and the Family Development Initiative established pursuant to P.L.1991, c.523 (C.44:10-19 et seq.). L.1997,c.38,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-109 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-109
Public policy
Status: in_force

3. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this State that every needy person shall, while in this State, be entitled to receive such public assistance as may be appropriate with reference to need of a category of persons and whether or not such persons are employable, and that the funding of such public assistance is the responsibility of the State but that all needy persons not otherwise provided for under the laws of this State shall hereafter receive public assistance pursuant to law and the provisions of this act. It is also the public policy of this State that there are two distinct categories of persons who may be eligible for financial assistance in accordance with the provisions of this act, those who are employable and those who are unemployable, as those terms are defined in section 2 of P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-108). The commissioner may set differing levels of assistance for these categories. L.1947,c.156,s.3; amended 1977,c.286,s.2; 1990,c.66,s.16; 1995,c.259,s.15.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-143 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-143
Compelling support by husband or wife
Status: in_force

44:1-143. When a husband or father shall desert his wife, child or children or a woman shall desert her child or children and leave them or any of them as public charges, the director of welfare of a municipality may apply to the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part; and the court may order and adjudge suitable support and maintenance to be paid and provided by the husband or wife, or either of them, to be made out of his property, and for such time as the nature of the case and circumstances of the parties render suitable and proper in the opinion of the court, and may compel the defendant to give reasonable security for such maintenance and support, and from time to time make such further orders and judgments touching the matter as shall be just, and enforce such orders and judgments. Amended 1953,c.42,s.11; 1991,c.91,s.431.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-111 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-111
"State SNAP Minimum Benefit Program" established; definitions.
Status: in_force

1. a. There is established in the Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services the State SNAP Minimum Benefit Program. Under the program, the division shall distribute to each eligible household a monthly State SNAP benefit equal to the difference between the household's federal SNAP monthly benefit and $95, which amount may be increased by the Commissioner of Human Services, as deemed appropriate and subject to available State appropriations. If federal funds become available for the purposes of this subsection, the Commissioner of Human Services shall utilize such federal funds as the primary source for issuing the monthly State SNAP benefit before State funds, if necessary, are expended. The State SNAP benefit shall be provided to an eligible household in addition to the federal SNAP benefit. b. The program shall be subject to the same State rules and procedures for implementing the federal SNAP to the greatest extent possible, including, but not limited to, distributing the State SNAP benefit using the program's Electronic Benefit Transfer system and requiring that benefits be used solely for the purchase of food as defined in 7 U.S.C. s.2012. c. The Commissioner of Human Services shall apply to the Food and Nutrition Service within the United States Department of Agriculture for any necessary waivers or approvals to implement the provisions of this section. d. As used in this section: "Eligible household" means a household that is certified to receive a federal SNAP benefit of at least one dollar per month, but less than $95 per month, or a larger amount as deemed appropriate by the Commissioner of Human Services, subject to available State and federal funds. "SNAP" means the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, established pursuant to the federal "Food and Nutrition Act of 2008," Pub.L.110-246 (7 U.S.C. s.2011 et seq.). L.2022, c.32; amended 2023, c.13.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-15 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-15
Bond issues by counties for construction or alteration of charitable hospitals
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders of a county which has no hospital located therein maintained by the county, other than a hospital or sick ward of a county almshouse, may issue bonds to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose of enabling any charitable hospital located in the county to construct new buildings, make alterations, additions or repairs to old buildings, and provide equipment for such buildings. All of such bonds shall mature within the period fixed by the board of freeholders which period shall not exceed thirty years. The proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be paid by the county treasurer to the treasurer or other proper officer of the hospital to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned. A hospital receiving money under this section shall be bound to treat such poor persons in the county suffering from disease or accident as may apply for admission to the hospital without cost, and the receipt of any money by the hospital under this section shall constitute a contract irrevocable between the hospital and the board of freeholders by virtue of which contract the hospital shall be bound to treat the persons suffering from disease or accident as herein provided, free of cost or charge, when a certificate is produced by the poor person signed by the board of freeholders, its director, or any member thereof, certifying that the poor person is entitled to treatment under the terms of a contract created by this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to or prevent an appropriation of money to the hospital under other laws, to be used for the purpose of maintenance, care or treatment of poor persons resident in the county wherein the hospital is located.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-40 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-40
Ballot; form and content
Status: in_force

At the general election at which the question of the adoption of the resolution is submitted to the voters of a county, there shall be printed upon each official ballot substantially the following: "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word YES, and if opposed thereto mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word NO. "Shall the county of ................ adopt the resolution of the board of chosen freeholders [ ] YES providing for the joint establishment, operation and maintenance of a district welfare-house for the permanent relief of the poor of this and the [ ] NO county (or counties) of (naming them), or so many thereof (or all as the resolution shall provide) as may be favorable thereto?"
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-81.9 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-81.9
Case tracking data published on Internet website.
Status: in_force

3. The Department of Human Services shall publish county-level case tracking data for SNAP on its Internet website that includes, but is not limited to: application approval rates, reasons for application denial, average application approval times, and the average time between when a case closes and when it is subsequently reopened. L.2022, c.30, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-81 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-81
New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program.
Status: in_force

3. a. There is established the New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program in the Department of Human Services. The purpose of the program is to provide nutritional assistance to those categories of noncitizens who were rendered ineligible for the federal food stamp program by section 402 of Pub.L.104-193, the federal "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996" (8 U.S.C.s.1612). b. The program shall be administered pursuant to State rules and regulations implementing the federal food stamp program, except that the eligibility criteria for noncitizens for the program provided in section 4 of this act shall be used in lieu of those of the federal food stamp program. L.1998,c.32,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-120 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-120
Appropriations for year following adoption of chapter
Status: in_force

Within fifteen days after this chapter takes effect and becomes operative in any county the county welfare board shall: a. Meet with the board of freeholders for consideration of the estimate of the welfare board as to the amount necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter for the ensuing year, and the board of freeholders after due consideration of the recommendation of the welfare board shall appropriate an amount sufficient in the judgment of the board of freeholders for the relief of the permanent or indoor poor within its jurisdiction; and b. Meet with the governing bodies of the municipalities of the county for consideration of the respective estimates of amounts necessary for providing temporary or outdoor relief in the respective municipalities and the governing bodies shall appropriate amounts sufficient in their respective judgments to meet the estimated expenditures for the relief of the temporary or outdoor poor in the respective municipalities for the ensuing year.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-19.4 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-19.4
Place of filing; effective date of lien
Status: in_force

The lien shall be filed with the clerk or register of deeds and mortgages of the county, as the case may be, or with the Clerk of the Superior Court, and shall immediately attach to and become binding upon all real property in the ownership of the patient in the county, if it is filed in the county, or wherever situate in the State, if it is filed in the Superior Court, and it shall have the force and effect of a judgment at law. L.1957, c. 139, p. 530, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-50 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-50
Director's record of applicants for relief
Status: in_force

Directors of welfare shall keep a record which may be by card index and which shall state in respect to all applicants for relief: a. The name, age, sex and residence; b. The number and names of children and their ages; c. The time and place of last employment, and the family income; d. Whether citizen or alien and the place of nativity; e. The place of abode for the ten years preceding the application for relief; f. The causes direct and indirect which operated to make relief necessary so far as can be ascertained; g. The relief or aid given, and such relief as may have been or is being provided by all organizations as ascertained; h. The names of the director or deputy and helper having particular knowledge and charge of the case, and of witnesses of the fact with their addresses; and i. The names of those responsible by law for the support of the poor person and of any relative agreeing or likely to agree to contribute in whole or in part to, or assist in, the support of the poor person.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-118 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-118
§ 44:4-118
Status: in_force

When a person shall die in a county without leaving money or other means sufficient to defray his funeral expenses, the director of welfare under the direction of the county welfare board shall employ some person to provide for and superintend the burial of the deceased person and contract with a cemetery association to provide a place for the burial, and the necessary and reasonable expenses as fixed by the governing body chargeable with the expense shall be paid by it upon the order of the county welfare board.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-94 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-94
Report to Legislature
Status: in_force

9. a. The commissioner shall report to the Legislature annually on the effectiveness of the program in providing eligible individuals in this State with an opportunity to establish an individual development account and may include in the report recommendations for change, if any, to make the program more effective. This report shall be due within 30 days of the end of the anniversary of the effective date of this section for each year the program is in operation. b. The Department of Community Affairs shall make available to the Departments of Labor and Human Services necessary individual development account statistical and program information in a usable format and in a timely manner, so that those departments may prepare federal and other reports. L.2001,c.93,s.9.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-11 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-11
Director of welfare; working test period; duties; qualifications; deputy director; civil service classification of director and deputy
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall appoint a director of welfare, who shall have the qualifications herein provided. The county adjuster, when qualified, may be appointed to this office, but when so appointed shall not serve as an ex-officio member of the county welfare board. The director of welfare shall be and hereby is classified in the competitive class of the classified service as defined and provided in Title 11, Civil Service, notwithstanding the county welfare board may not otherwise be operating under the provisions of Title 11, Civil Service. Directors of welfare hereafter appointed shall have a working test period, as otherwise defined and governed by sections 11:12-1 and 11:12-2, which shall be not shorter than six months and which shall, on request of the appointing authority, be extended for an additional period or periods not to exceed a total of twelve months including the initial period. He shall be the clerk of the county welfare board and shall serve as such without additional compensation. He shall be the chief executive and approval officer of the county welfare board, and shall exercise all the powers pertaining thereto. He shall be a citizen of the State and of the United States, shall be capable of making and keeping such records and reports as are lawfully required, shall have adequate knowledge of the laws concerning old age assistance and shall be a trained and qualified expert in the field of welfare service, with administrative experience therein. The county welfare board may appoint a deputy director of welfare, who shall have qualifications necessary to the appointment of directors of welfare and be under the supervision of such director of welfare, and be vested, on approval of the county welfare board, with the same powers as the director of welfare. The deputy director of welfare shall be and hereby is classified in the competitive class of the classified service as defined and provided in Title 11, Civil Service, notwithstanding the county welfare board may not otherwise be operating under the provisions of Title 11, Civil Service. Amended by L.1938, c. 361, p. 906, s. 7; L.1938, c. 382, p. 956, s. 1; L.1939, c. 311, p. 754, s. 1; L.1940, c. 186, p. 557, s. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1940.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-15 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-15
Individualized service plans
Status: in_force

a. Each participant in the REACH program shall receive educational, training or employment services and supportive services according to an individualized service plan which includes a written contract. The individualized service plan for each participant in the REACH program shall be designed by a designated representative of the commissioner after interviewing the participant and shall be based upon an evaluation of the participant's employment skills and potential, educational background, job experience and interests, and need for supportive services. The contract shall be signed by the participant and the designated representative who shall act as a case manager for the participant, and shall set forth the specific mutual obligations of the participant and the State in the REACH program. The service plan and contract shall be reviewed by both the participant and the designated representative at least every six months and may be revised from time to time according to the needs of both the participant and the State. b. The designated representative acting as a case manager for the participant shall arrange for necessary education or training services, in addition to necessary supportive services, and shall monitor the participant's progress after placement in a job and be available to the participant, as needed. c. The commissioner shall be responsible for providing, at a minimum, the following education, training and employment services under the REACH program: counseling and vocational assessment; intensive remedial education, including instruction in English as a second language; job search assistance; employment skills training focused on a specific job; on-the-job training in an employment setting; and job development and placement. d. A participant in the REACH program shall be trained and placed in a job and field of employment which offers reasonable opportunities for employment security and upward mobility. e. The commissioner shall be responsible for ensuring the availability of, and for providing, the following supportive services under the REACH program for a program participant when no other appropriate source is available therefor and when these services are specified in the contract as necessary to enable the participant to receive program services pursuant to subsection c. of this section. The supportive services shall include, but not be limited to, one or more of the following: (1) child care services for the participant's child which may include care provided at a child care center licensed pursuant to P.L. 1983, c. 492 (C. 30:5B-1 et seq.) or a school age child care program, or at a family day care home approved by the Department of Human Services pursuant to P.L. 1987, c. 27 (C. 30:5B-16 et seq.) or through alternative arrangements which are developed by the designated representative and the REACH participant according to guidelines established by the commissioner; (2) transportation services, to be provided directly by the REACH program or through an allowance or other means of subsidy by which the participant may purchase transportation, which services may be designed and implemented by the Commissioner of Human Services in consultation with the Commissioner of Transportation; and (3) health care coverage through a continuation of Medicaid benefits pursuant to P.L. 1968, c. 413 (C. 30:4D-1 et seq.) in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 1987, c. 283 (C. 30:4D-6b et seq.). Child care services and health care coverage shall be provided to the participant for one year after the commencement of employment by the participant, as necessary. Transportation services may be provided to a participant after the commencement of employment for a limited period of time, but the amount of transportation services assistance shall be reduced, over time, according to a schedule adopted pursuant to regulation which is based on the length of time a participant is employed. L. 1987, c. 282, s. 7; per s.11 as amended by s.15 of 1991, c.523, expired July 1, 1995.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-39 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-39
Subsidy for campus-based child care
Status: in_force

6. A community college which provides campus-based child care and any work activity to a recipient as part of that recipient's individual responsibility plan pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1997, c.38 (C.44:10-62), shall receive a subsidy for the provision of child care from the commissioner, in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner. L.1997,c.13,s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-19.9 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-19.9
Support by relatives
Status: in_force

Upon application for medical care and hospitalization by any person, or upon the furnishing of the same by the county to any person, in the manner provided in section 1 of this act, the County Adjuster of the county shall ascertain, if possible, the relatives chargeable by law for the support of such person and shall proceed to obtain their assistance or compel them to render assistance in providing medical care and hospitalization in the manner provided in this act or in paying the cost thereof. L.1957, c. 139, p. 532, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-91.3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-91.3
Record of welfare house and outdoor liens
Status: in_force

The county clerks or registers of deeds and mortgages, as the case may be, shall record in a book to be known as "Welfare-House and Outdoor Liens" the said certificates, and shall make a complete alphabetical index of the same, and no clerk or register shall charge any fee therefor. Whenever a county shall have received satisfaction for such judgments, the county welfare board shall enter an acknowledgment of satisfaction upon the record of such judgments without charge. L.1946, c. 175, p. 762, s. 2. Amended by L.1953, c. 42, p. 782, s. 22, eff. March 19, 1953.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-77 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-77
§ 44:4-77
Status: in_force

On failure to resist such removal the receiving county welfare board or overseer or county adjuster, as the case may be, may not decline to receive the poor person, but shall receive him and provide such relief as is lawful; except that for good cause shown for the failure to contest the removal the receiving county welfare board or overseer or county adjuster, as the case may be, may, within thirty days after the receipt of the poor person in its county, apply to the court of common pleas of the county from whence the person was removed, to review the proceeding and make such revised order and disposition for the care and relief of the poor person and his removal, if lawful, as may be proper and necessary.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-5.8 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-5.8
Implementation plan, reports
Status: in_force

7. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall prepare an electronic benefit distribution system implementation plan, in consultation with the county welfare agencies in Camden, Hudson and Essex counties, on or before October 1, 1991. The plan shall include an estimate of the costs to participating counties and a determination of the feasibility of staggering payment schedules with no less than four working days between payment dates. b. The commissioner shall report to the Legislature and the Governor by October 1, 1991 on the plan to implement the electronic benefit distribution system and shall report quarterly thereafter for two years to the Legislative Joint Budget Oversight Committee on the implementation of the plan. L.1991,c.478,s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-85 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-85
Helpers to overseers
Status: in_force

An overseer may appoint resident helpers without pay or fees to aid in the temporary relief of poor persons under his direction, preferably by district, in a municipality, in order that such helpers may observe, ascertain and assist the overseer or deputy in ascertaining the cause or causes of dependency, obtain employment for poor persons when needed, and assist and advise the overseer or deputy in instituting and prosecuting to a determination such proceedings as may be necessary through other agencies of the state, or its political subdivisions, for the relief of the poor, or the admission of them or their lawful dependents to such institution or agency as may be provided for mental or physical disability or otherwise. Disbursements of helpers shall be paid, on the approval of the overseer, by the governing body or district welfare board. Helpers shall be registered on appointment at the office of the overseer, and shall be furnished and supplied with such evidence of their appointment and authority as the overseer, with the approval of the governing body, shall determine.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-69 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-69
Reimbursement to tort claims fund
Status: in_force

15. The program shall reimburse the fund established pursuant to N.J.S.59:12-1 for all costs incurred by the fund in connection with a recipient's participation in community work experience or alternative work experience. L.1997,c.38,s.15.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-25 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-25
§ 44:1-25
Status: in_force

The superintendent of welfare shall hold office for one year and until the appointment of his successor unless sooner removed for cause after due notice and hearing.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-78 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-78
Liability of county or municipality failing to receive or remove poor person
Status: in_force

44:4-78. If any director of welfare under direction of the county welfare board or any overseer or county adjuster as the case may be shall neglect to receive or remove a poor person, as provided in this chapter, after the determination of the matter by any court having jurisdiction, the county or municipality as the case may be where the neglect occurs shall be liable for the expense of the support and relief of the poor person. The expense shall be recoverable from time to time, with costs, by the county welfare board or overseer incurring the cost of the relief and support, in an action at law in any court of competent jurisdiction in the name of the county or municipality as the case may be against the county or municipality liable therefor. The director of welfare or the overseer or county adjuster whose duty it was to receive or remove the poor person, shall be served with notice of the action in the manner in which any summons is required to be served. Amended 1991,c.91,s.437.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-118 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-118
Duties of county adjuster
Status: in_force

The county adjuster shall on the application of an overseer forthwith take the steps necessary to the removal of a poor person to another state, or to another county within this state, by negotiating with the proper authority in the other state or county through the commissioner for the reception of the poor person who may be properly removable to a place in that state or county, and shall perform that function for all overseers in the county, and all overseers in a county shall take the steps necessary to such removal by means of the aid and authority of the county adjuster.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-73 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-73
Duties of director of welfare and county adjuster
Status: in_force

The director of welfare under the direction of the county welfare board in any county shall take the necessary steps looking to the removal of any poor person from this state, or to another county in this state, through and by means of the aid and authority of the county adjuster. The county adjuster shall on the application of any director of welfare, forthwith take the steps necessary to the removal of any poor person from this state, or to another county, by negotiating with the proper authority in the other state or county, through the commissioner, for the reception of the poor person who may be properly removable to any place in that state or county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-81.3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-81.3
Streamlining SNAP application for senior citizens.
Status: in_force

1. a. The Commissioner of Human Services, to the maximum extent permissible under federal law, shall review and streamline the SNAP application process, as provided in this section. The goal of the streamlining process shall be to maximize the enrollment of eligible SNAP participants in New Jersey by increasing the accessibility of the SNAP application. b. In streamlining the SNAP application process, as required by this section, the commissioner shall, at a minimum, update the online application system to ensure the system employs current technology and is user friendly, with features that include, but are not limited to, easy account creation, easy user access, and easy tracking of an applicant's application status. c. The Department of Human Services, working in consultation and cooperation with appropriate advocacy organizations, shall engage in comprehensive outreach efforts to ensure that New Jersey residents are made aware of their ability to apply for and obtain SNAP benefits through a streamlined and expedited process. At a minimum, the department shall provide outreach at all health care facilities, social service agencies that serve seniors in the State, and other organizations focused on food assistance, and shall use all available media, including print, radio, television, and the Internet, to inform residents of the availability of the streamlined SNAP application process established pursuant to this section. d. The Commissioner of Human Services shall apply to the Food and Nutrition Service within the United States Department of Agriculture for any necessary waivers or approvals to implement the provisions of this section. e. As used in this section: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "SNAP" means the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, established pursuant to the federal "Food and Nutrition Act of 2008," Pub.L.110-246 (7 U.S.C. s.2011 et seq.). L.2021, c.243, s.1; amended 2022, c.26, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 44:11-3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-3
Statement that recipient is functionally incapacitated.
Status: in_force

3. A verified statement by the director of the welfare board, or the director's authorized representative, annexed to the complaint and setting forth that a review by the Division of Family Services in the Department of Human Services indicates that the recipient is functionally incapacitated, shall be prima facie evidence of the necessity for the appointment. L.1964, c.155, s.3; amended 2013, c.103, s.122.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-9 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-9
Raising of money for buildings and maintenance
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders may: a. Cause to be levied, assessed and collected from the municipalities of the county such sums of money as shall be deemed necessary at first and annually thereafter to provide suitable land, buildings and improvements for the welfare-house and for the maintenance thereof, and for all other necessary expenditures therefor, and the expenses of the county welfare board and its agents as authorized and required in this chapter; and b. Borrow money for the erection or purchase of such welfare-houses, and for the purchase of a site for such welfare-houses, on the credit of the county, and issue obligations therefor in such manner as it may do for other county purposes.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-5 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-5
§ 44:4-5
Status: in_force

Whenever any county shall propose by resolution as in this chapter provided, to establish a county welfare-house or to contract with another county for the relief and maintenance of the permanent poor by such other county in a welfare-house thereof, the resolution so providing shall not be passed at the time of its proposal, but after such proposal the action thereon shall be adjourned for at least two weeks, when it shall be finally acted upon by the board except as herein provided. Within one week after the proposal of such resolution, notice of the time and place of final action thereon to be taken shall be published twice in two newspapers of general circulation in the county, one of which is published in the county seat. The final passage thereof may be adjourned thereafter to the next regular meeting of the board of chosen freeholders.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-29 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-29
§ 44:4-29
Status: in_force

All appropriations for the expenditure of money as set forth in this chapter shall be subject to the approval of the board of chosen freeholders.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-50 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-50
Absent child, eligibility for benefits
Status: in_force

7. a. A dependent child who has been or is expected by a parent, legal guardian or caretaker relative to be absent from the home for a period of time as established by regulation of the commissioner, shall remain eligible for benefits during that period, except that, an absence for periods or for reasons other than those stipulated in regulations adopted by the commissioner shall be cause for denial or termination of benefits for that dependent child. b. A parent, legal guardian or caretaker relative who does not report the absence of a dependent child to the county agency by the end of the five-day period beginning on the day that the parent, legal guardian or caretaker relative becomes aware that the child will be absent, shall be ineligible for benefits pursuant to federal law for a period of time as determined by the commissioner. L.1997,c.14,s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-70 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-70
Settlement; determination; effect of temporary removal
Status: in_force

Every person of full age who shall be a resident of and domiciled without interruption in any municipality of a county wherein this chapter has been adopted by referendum, for five years, excluding in the computation of such period the time if any spent by such person in any charitable or correctional institution, shall be deemed settled in such municipality and shall so remain until he shall have gained a like settlement in some other municipality or county in this state, or shall have removed from this state and remained therefrom continuously for one year, or shall have gained a legal settlement elsewhere in this state. If such person shall have removed from this state for more than one year, he shall not retain his settlement in any municipality or county in this state.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-2a — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-2a
Health care facility defined
Status: in_force

As used in this amendatory and supplementary act "health care facility" means the private facility or institution, engaged principally in providing services for health maintenance organizations, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition, including, but not limited to, a general hospital, special hospital, mental hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center, rehabilitation center, extended care facility, skilled nursing home, nursing home, intermediate care facility, tuberculosis hospital, chronic disease hospital, maternity hospital, outpatient clinic, dispensary, home health care agency or residential health care facility. L.1981, c. 145, s. 4, eff. May 14, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-91 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-91
§ 44:4-91
Status: in_force

If it is ascertained at any time that a person who has been assisted by or has received support from any municipality or county has real or personal property over and above that necessary for his maintenance in whole or in part, if such poor person is maintained by the county at home, or over and above that sufficient for his family, or if any such person shall die, leaving real or personal property, an action may be maintained in the court of common pleas of the county by the board of chosen freeholders which has furnished or provided such assistance or support, or any part thereof, against such person or his estate, to recover the sums of money which have been expended by the county in the assistance and support of the person during the period for which support was furnished, and if any person shall die having received relief or maintenance as a poor person and having insurance upon his life, the proceeds of the insurance, after the payment of the expense of the last illness and the funeral expenses of the person, shall, if the terms of the policy so permit, be first applied to the reimbursement of the county, for the cost of the support and maintenance of the person, but no action shall lie, nor shall any appropriation of insurance be made against any estate when it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the proceeds thereof, or the estate, are needed to prevent the widow or minor children of the poor person from becoming dependent upon the public.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-125 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-125
Suspension of sentence or fine upon certain conditions
Status: in_force

A sentence or fine imposed under the provisions of section 44:1-124 of this title may be suspended before or after conviction upon condition that the offender will convey the poor person to the place where he has a settlement or where he became poor without this state and from which he was sent, brought, removed or enticed, or that the offender will at his own expense support the poor person, which removal or support by the offender shall be secured by a bond to the overseer, superintendent or county welfare board as the case may be with sufficient surety satisfactory to the court conditioned upon the making of the removal as provided in this section or the making by the offender with the overseer, superintendent or director of welfare of the county welfare board as the case may be, of proper provisions for the relief and support of the poor person.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-130 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-130
Advance payments to municipality before determination of "current year's public assistance load"
Status: in_force

The commissioner may make payments, from time to time, under the above stated formula to any such municipality in advance of the determination of such municipality's "current year's public assistance load" on the basis of estimates made by him of such municipality's "current year's public assistance load" making such adjustments in later payments to each such municipality as may be required when such municipality's actual "current year's public assistance load" is determined. L.1947, c. 156, p. 701, s. 24.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-63 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-63
§ 44:4-63
Status: in_force

Where permanent relief is required by any poor person in a county in which he has gained a settlement the director of welfare under the direction of the county welfare board shall commit and remove such person to the welfare-house in its jurisdiction, if there is such, or the welfare-house of another county wherein the permanent poor of the county are maintained by contract as provided in this chapter, or furnish relief at home, if the circumstances as otherwise herein provided may be lawful and preferable.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-79 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-79
Contract by municipality for services of overseer of adjoining municipality
Status: in_force

Contiguous or adjoining municipalities in a county may, through their governing bodies, agree in writing after resolution duly passed in each that the overseer of one or more of them may and shall act for and within one or more of them in lieu of the appointment of an overseer in the adjoining municipality so contracting, and thereupon such additional salary shall be paid the overseer as is agreed upon, with and not without his express consent in writing thereto. In such case the overseer shall have like authority and responsibilities as other overseers, and the overseer theretofore appointed in the municipality contracting for the other overseer shall upon notice to this effect to him cease to hold the office within thirty days after the agreement is executed.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-51 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-51
§ 44:4-51
Status: in_force

In case of the commitment or admission of a poor person or a member of his family, through the agency of the director of welfare under the supervision of the county welfare board, to an almshouse, welfare-house or other institution or family, the director shall file a copy of the record provided for in section 44:4-50 of this title, or a record of the admission or commitment, with the commissioner at his office at Trenton, and in case of an infant a copy thereof shall be within the same time filed with the state board of children's guardians at its office. Such filing within the time limited may be by registered mail.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-110.1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-110.1
Disbursement of funds for legal services for successful appeals
Status: in_force

1. The Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services shall disburse funds from the Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General Assistance Fund for fees to an attorney or a legal entity providing legal services who represents a recipient of public assistance pursuant to P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et seq.) in an appeal of a claim for federal Supplemental Security Income benefits pursuant to the federal Social Security Act, Pub.L.92-603 (42 U.S.C.1381 et seq.), if the appeal is decided in favor of the recipient. The fees to the attorney or legal entity providing legal services shall be a fixed amount set by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Human Services. The disbursement shall not be made unless a petition and a copy of the favorable decision is submitted by the attorney or by the legal entity providing legal services to the Division of Family Development within 60 days of the date of receipt of the favorable appeal decision. The disbursement of the fees to the attorney or to the legal entity providing legal services shall be made within 30 days of the date of the submission by the attorney of the required information. L.1996,c.65,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 44:12-1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-1
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this act "Federal Government" means the United States of America, acting through the Office of Economic Opportunity, established under an act of the Eighty-eighth Congress of the United States entitled "The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964" and any acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, or revisions thereof, or acting through any other Federal agency established by any other act of the Congress of the United States heretofore passed or as may hereafter be passed for like or similar purposes, and "local unit" means all boards, bodies, officers and agencies of the State and of every county, municipality and school district thereof. L.1966, c. 13, s. 1, eff. April 1, 1966.
N.J. Stat. § 44:11-8 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-8
Liberal construction; costs
Status: in_force

This act shall be liberally construed to secure the beneficial intent and purpose hereof. All proceedings under this act shall be without costs except witness fees as required. L.1964, c. 155, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-110.3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-110.3
Rules, regulations
Status: in_force

3. The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1996,c.65,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-14 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-14
Appropriations by counties for constructing or enlarging private charitable hospitals
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders of a county which has no hospital located therein wholly maintained by the county, other than the hospital or sick ward of the county almshouse, may appropriate a sum of sums of money in the manner in which appropriations for other county purposes are made, which sum so appropriated shall be included in the annual tax levy of the county and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other county taxes. The sum shall be applied to the purpose of constructing or enlarging any hospital or hospitals located in the county which is supported by private charity and where such patients as may be sent thereto are supported and maintained. The sum or sums so appropriated shall be used and applied in constructing or enlarging such hospital as shall afford care, comfort and maintenance to such patients as are residents of the county at the time of being sent to that hospital. Amended by L.1954, c. 255, p. 929, s. 1, eff. Dec. 15, 1954.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-12 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-12
§ 44:1-12
Status: in_force

Members shall hold their offices for five years except that the first appointments shall be respectively for one, two, three, four and five years, which terms as to duration shall be in the order of appointments as made and indicated. Vacancies in such offices shall be filled for the unexpired term only.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-123 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-123
§ 44:4-123
Status: in_force

When the sums appropriated as provided in section 44:4-122 of this title are expended or exhausted during the year and for the purpose for which they were appropriated, and when separate appropriations are made for indoor and outdoor relief of the poor and any one of the appropriations is expended or exhausted, or is or may be inadequate alone for either such indoor or outdoor relief, the board of chosen freeholders may provide for the continuance of such relief as may be necessary for the balance of the fiscal year, by the appropriation of additional sums from time to time to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-106.1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-106.1
SNAP applicants, beneficiaries; biennial survey on application experience, difficulties; procedure.
Status: in_force

1. a. The Department of Human Services shall conduct a biennial survey of SNAP applicants and beneficiaries for the purpose of evaluating the SNAP experience of the applicants and beneficiaries. The biennial survey shall include, at a minimum, questions concerning the applicant's or beneficiary's experience in navigating the SNAP application process, any difficulties the applicant or beneficiary encountered in the application process, the availability of consumer support at the county welfare agency, and how well the applicant's or beneficiary's questions and concerns were addressed by staff at the county welfare agency. b. The purpose of the biennial survey shall be to: (1) identify the strengths and weaknesses of each county welfare agency in processing SNAP applications; (2) formulate trainings or strategies to improve the processing of SNAP applications; and (3) assess which counties require additional resource and staff support. c. When conducting the biennial survey required pursuant to this section, the department shall ensure the survey is distributed to all SNAP applicants at each county welfare agency throughout the duration of the survey period. d. The commissioner shall, no later than 18 months after the completion of each biennial survey, submit a report to the Legislature, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), documenting the results of the biennial survey and providing the commissioner's recommendations for legislation or other appropriate action. e. As used in this section: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "SNAP" means the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, established pursuant to the federal "Food and Nutrition Act of 2008," Pub.L.110-246 (7 U.S.C. s.2011 et seq.) and P.L.1998, c.32 (C.44:10-79 et seq.). L.2021, c.453, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-116 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-116
Terms of members of local assistance boards; vacancies
Status: in_force

The term of one member of each local assistance board shall be for one year and such member only may be appointed from among the membership of the governing body of the municipality and the terms of the other members thereof shall be as follows: (a) In municipalities having a board of three members said terms shall be for two years each, expiring in alternate years, and (b) In municipalities having a board of five members said term shall be for four years each, one term expiring in each year. The term of each member of a local assistance board shall begin on the first day of January, and each member shall continue in office until his successor shall be appointed and shall qualify. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms only. L.1947, c. 156, p. 696, s. 10.
N.J. Stat. § 44:14-7 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-7
Reduction of base upon which limitation on county expenditures is determined
Status: in_force

In 1982, a county receiving funds under this act shall reduce the base upon which the limitation on county expenditures is determined in an amount equal to 70% of the funds received in 1981. L.1981, c. 60, s. 7, eff. March 3, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-47 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-47
Transfer of functions, powers and duties
Status: in_force

All of the functions, powers and duties of, and records and property maintained by, and unexpended appropriation balances available to the Commission for the Blind, under and with respect to statutes repealed by sections 47 and 48 of this act, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Bureau of Assistance and shall be exercised, performed and used by the bureau in accordance with the provisions of sections 41 through 44 of this act and as otherwise provided by law. L.1962, c. 197, s. 45.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-95 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-95
Expenses recoverable, procedure
Status: in_force

44:1-95. If it is ascertained at any time that a person who has been assisted by or has received support from a municipality or county has real or personal property over and above that necessary for his maintenance in whole or in part, if such poor person is maintained by the municipality or county at home, or over and above that sufficient for his family, or if any such person shall die, leaving real or personal property, an action may be maintained in the Superior Court by the director of welfare of the municipality who has furnished or provided such assistance or support, or any part thereof, against such person or his estate, to recover the sums of money which have been expended by the municipality or county in the assistance and support of the person during the period for which support was furnished. If a person shall die having received relief or maintenance as a poor person and having insurance upon his life, the proceeds of the insurance after payment of the expense of the last illness and the funeral expenses of the person, if the terms of the policy so permit, shall be first applied to the reimbursement of the county, municipality or district for the cost of the support and maintenance of the person. But no action shall lie, nor shall any appropriation of insurance be made against an estate when it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the court that the proceeds thereof, or the estate, are needed to prevent the widow or minor children of the poor person from becoming dependent upon the public. Amended 1953,c.42,s.5; 1991,c.91,s.425.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-80 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-80
Definitions relative to New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program.
Status: in_force

2. As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Federal food stamp program" means the federal food stamp program authorized by Title XIII of the "Food and Agriculture Act of 1977," Pub.L.95-113 (7 U.S.C.s.2011 et seq.). "Program" means the New Jersey Supplementary Food Stamp Program established pursuant to this act. L.1998,c.32,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-99 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-99
Collaboration between partnering providers and county welfare agencies.
Status: in_force

5. a. A county welfare agency shall collaborate with all partnering providers whose service areas include the county to: inform all eligible participants, upon determination of their eligibility for SNAP benefits, of all project activities operating within the county; permit all eligible participants to participate in any project activities available within the county; and assist eligible participants with contacting partnering providers operating project activities. A county welfare agency may advise an eligible participant as to the applicability and appropriateness of specific activities to the eligible participant's case, but the county welfare agency shall not assign an eligible participant to project activities without the eligible participant's consent. b. A partnering provider shall collaborate with all county welfare agencies within the provider's service area to: inform all eligible participants, upon determination of their eligibility for SNAP benefits, of the availability of project services; and assist the county welfare agencies with identifying those eligible participants for whom participation in the partnering provider's NJ SNAP ETP activities would be most applicable and appropriate. c. A partnering provider shall serve all eligible participants residing within the provider's service area who elect to participate in the provider's project activities. Except as provided in this section, a partnering provider shall not deny or terminate the participation of any project participant. d. Eligible participants who are required to register for work and are required to fulfill SNAP work requirements may elect to participate in a partnering provider's project activities. e. Eligible participants who are required to register for work and are required to fulfill SNAP work requirements who elect to participate in project activities but who subsequently do not cooperate with, or participate in, those activities shall not be subject to penalties for noncompliance with SNAP work requirements during their participation in the project. Partnering providers shall terminate the project participation of any such non-cooperating or non-participating eligible participants and refer the non-cooperating or non-participating participants to the applicable county welfare agency. The applicable county welfare agency may assign, at a participant's request, the non-cooperating or non-participating participant to another NJ SNAP ETP component outside of the project, as available. f. Nothing in P.L.2013, c.45 (C.44:10-95 et seq.) shall be construed to limit the authority of the county welfare agencies or the department to impose penalties for noncompliance with SNAP work requirements on eligible participants who are required to register for work and are required to fulfill SNAP work requirements. g. A partnering provider may deny or terminate the participation of any project participant who is not appropriately matched to the partnering provider's project activities upon obtaining approval from the applicable county welfare agency. L.2013, c.45, s.5; amended 2019, c.253, s.5; 2022, c.27, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-127 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-127
§ 44:4-127
Status: in_force

When a municipality fails to appropriate an additional sum for this purpose, the board of chosen freeholders shall provide for the relief of the temporary or outdoor poor of the municipality for the remainder of the calendar or fiscal year by an emergency appropriation on certification thereof by the county welfare board, and shall assess and collect a special tax in the municipality sufficient to meet and pay for such emergency appropriation in the same manner as other county taxes are assessed and collected in the municipalities of the county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-141 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-141
Compelling support by relatives
Status: in_force

44:1-141. If any of the relatives mentioned in section 44:1-140 of this Title shall fail to perform the order or directions of the director of welfare of a municipality with regard to the support of the poor person, or if the poor person is supported at public expense, the Superior Court in the county wherein the poor person has a legal settlement, or the municipal court of the municipality wherein the person has a legal settlement, upon the complaint of the director of welfare or two residents of the municipality or county may summon the persons chargeable before it as in other actions, summon witnesses, and adjudge that the able relatives pay such sum for each poor person as the circumstances may require in the discretion of the court, and as will maintain him or them and relieve the public of that burden. However, where it shall appear that the person or persons sought to be held were the child or children of the poor person and were abandoned and deserted by the poor person who failed to support and maintain them during minority, the aforementioned Superior Court or municipal court may revoke the order of the director of welfare or reduce the amount of said order against such child or children, in proportion to the actual support and maintenance rendered by said poor person to the child or children sought to be held. Any child now under an order to support a poor person may apply to the court which issued said order for the revocation or reduction of said order in accordance with the terms of this proviso. Violation of any such order shall constitute a contempt of court. The county through its governing body may also bring appropriate action in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover any money due for the relief, support and maintenance of a poor person against a person chargeable by law therefor. Amended 1940,c.55; 1953,c.42,s.10; 1991,c.91,s.430.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-126 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-126
Transportation of nonresident, approval required.
Status: in_force

44:1-126. No person shall furnish a non-resident who is sick, elderly, injured, or who has a physical disability, with transportation at the cost of the municipality until the municipal welfare director has ascertained the legal residence of the person applying. Transportation furnished to a person shall be to the person's legal residence unless it shall appear that the person has some valid claim for support or some means of support in some other place to which the person shall ask to be sent. Amended 2017, c.131, s.178.
N.J. Stat. § 44:14-5 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-5
Semiannual payments by state treasurer
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer shall make payments required under this act in two equal installments, the first to be payable annually on August 1 of each year and the second payable annually on the succeeding December 1. L.1981, c. 60, s. 5, eff. March 3, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-67 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-67
Bond issues for construction, repair or equipment
Status: in_force

In order to meet the expense: a. Of erecting additions to or new buildings or accommodations at a county almshouse or welfare-house; or b. Of making repairs to any such buildings; or c. Of providing proper furniture for any such buildings, or apparatus for lighting, heating or otherwise fitting them up-- the board of chosen freeholders of a county lawfully authorized to maintain almshouses or welfare-houses, or the boards of freeholders acting for more than one county, may from time to time issue bonds in the manner otherwise provided by law in the corporate name and under the corporate seal of the county, or as provided in this chapter for joint county control.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-5.7 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-5.7
Evaluation, implementation of system
Status: in_force

6. a. The Department of Human Services shall evaluate the operation of the electronic benefit distribution system in the initial counties, and, as deemed appropriate, shall proceed to implement the system in additional counties. b. The department shall implement the system in any additional county upon the request of the board of chosen freeholders of such county, or, in a county operating under the provisions of the "Optional County Charter Law," P.L.1972, c.154 (C.40:41A-1 et seq.), upon the request of the chief executive officer of such county. However, if the department does not deem it appropriate to implement the system in such requesting county, the department shall not implement the system, and shall submit a report in writing stating the reasons for that determination to the Assembly Health and Human Services and Appropriations Committees and the Senate Institutions, Health and Welfare and Revenue, Finance and Appropriations Committees, or their successors. c. Any additional county in which the system is implemented shall be exempted from the cycling of the issuance of benefits over multiple dates throughout the month, upon the request of the board of chosen freeholders of such county, or, in a county operating under the provisions of the "Optional County Charter Law," P.L.1972, c.154 (C.40:41A-1 et seq.), upon the request of the chief executive officer of such county. L.1991,c.478,s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-32 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-32
Obtaining assistance falsely a misdemeanor; future grants denied
Status: in_force

Any person who, by means of a false statement, or false representation, or by impersonation, or other fraudulent device, obtains or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets, any person to obtain funds under this chapter to which he is not entitled, or a larger amount of assistance than that to which he is justly entitled, or payment of any forfeited installment grant; or knowingly aids or abets in buying, or in any way disposing of, the property of an applicant without the consent of the county welfare board, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished accordingly. If such person be himself an applicant or recipient of old age assistance, his application may be denied or his grant withdrawn, and future grants denied at the discretion of the board. Amended by L.1943, c. 164, p. 483, s. 11, eff. April 9, 1943.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-98 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-98
Filing of record on admission to institution
Status: in_force

In case of the commitment or admission of a poor person or a member of his family, through the agency of the overseer, or his assistants, to an almshouse, welfare-house or other institution or family, the overseer shall file a copy of the record provided for in section 44:1-97 of this title, or a record of the admission or commitment, with the commissioner at his office at Trenton, and in the case of an infant, a record thereof shall be, within the same time, filed with the state board of children's guardians at its office. Such filing within the time limited may be by registered mail.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-145.1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-145.1
Transfer from municipal to county welfare agency
Status: in_force

28. a. A municipality may, by mutual agreement with the county in which it is located, provide for the transfer from its municipal welfare agency to the county welfare agency of the financial and operational responsibility for the administration of general public assistance provided pursuant to P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et seq.) to residents of that municipality. In that event, the municipal welfare agency shall be abolished and all its functions, powers and duties transferred to the county welfare agency no later than the 60th day after the effective date of the transfer. L.1995,c.259,s.28.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-13 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-13
Annual reports to freeholders by hospitals participating in appropriation
Status: in_force

A hospital desiring to participate in the funds referred to in sections 44:5-11 and 44:5-12 of this title shall, prior to December fifteenth of each year, make a report to the board of chosen freeholders of the county under oath of the superintendent or custodian of the records and verified by the president of the hospital, setting forth in detail the free work done by the hospital in accordance with the provisions of said sections 44:5-11 and 44:5-12 for the twelve months ending November thirtieth next preceding. The apportionment of the money for the fiscal year of the county, following such reports, shall be made to each hospital upon the basis of free service as shown by the reports, and no hospital failing to make such reports shall participate in the funds appropriated for the fiscal year immediately following that failure.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-20 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-20
Membership
Status: in_force

In every county wherein the provisions of this chapter have been adopted, there shall be constituted and appointed a county welfare board composed as provided in R.S. 44:1-11. Such boards are hereby created corporate entities with power to sue and be sued, to use a common seal, and to make bylaws. The holding of any other office by any member of the welfare board shall not constitute such holding as incompatible with his office as member of such welfare board. Amended by L.1938, c. 194, p. 421, s. 1, eff. May 16, 1938; L.1972, c. 105, s. 3, eff. July 27, 1972.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-108 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-108
Granting permanent relief where required of county of settlement
Status: in_force

Where permanent relief is required by a poor person in a municipality in which he has gained a residence and is an inhabitant, and of a county in which he has gained a settlement, the overseer shall proceed to commit and remove the person to an almshouse or welfare-house, except as otherwise provided in this chapter for partial relief in a home or otherwise.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-10 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-10
Duties of secretary-treasurer; bond
Status: in_force

The secretary-treasurer of the county welfare board shall receive from the county treasurer of his respective county such sums as shall represent the county's appropriation for old age assistance and the administration thereof as herein provided, and shall receive from the State such sums as represent the State's share for old age assistance and the administration thereof as provided in sections 44:7-25 to 44:7-27 of this Title, and shall cause said sums to be set up in a special account or accounts subject to disbursement by the county welfare board in accordance with this chapter. Said secretary-treasurer shall furnish bond conditioned on the faithful performance of his duties, in an amount to be fixed by the welfare board, subject to the approval of the State division. Amended by L.1938, c. 361, p. 906, s. 6, eff. July 1, 1938.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-66 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-66
§ 44:1-66
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with or prevent a county from establishing or maintaining a county almshouse as heretofore, unless it has adopted the provisions contained in this chapter for the establishment of a welfare-house, or to prevent any municipality not having participated in the welfare-house plan and purpose from doing likewise.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-33 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-33
§ 44:7-33
Status: in_force

Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this chapter for which no penalty is specifically provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-54 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-54
Term of bonds; raising of principal and interest
Status: in_force

The bonds shall mature in not more than forty years from the issuance thereof. The principal and interest thereof and other necessary sums of money or expenses shall be the debt or obligation of the district wherein they were issued in the municipalities of each county participating, in the proportion which the population of each county or part thereof, as last determined prior to their issuance and prior to the passage of the joint resolution of the boards of chosen freeholders of the counties concerned, bears to the population of each other county or part thereof likewise participating, except as in this chapter otherwise provided as to municipalities not participating. The sums necessary for each annual maturity together with all interest charges shall be provided for in the budgets of the counties participating, in the manner in which other expenses are provided for, and in the proportionate amount annually in the respective counties which is certified by the state commissioner of municipal accounts as being the quota and proportion chargeable to each county. The payment of such interest and principal and other necessary sums shall be provided for by taxation and annually levied, assessed and collected by the boards of chosen freeholders from the municipalities of the counties participating in the purpose, in the manner in which other debts and obligations of the several counties are provided for by taxation.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-75 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-75
§ 44:4-75
Status: in_force

On the day named in the notice, the order for removal shall be made by the removing director of welfare, and the poor person shall forthwith be removed to the place indicated in the notice upon the making of an order that he has no settlement in the county in which he is a resident or is found, and has a settlement or became poor in the other county or municipality therein prior to his becoming a resident and inhabitant or being found in the county from whence he is to be removed, unless within ten days after the mailing of the written notice the director of welfare of the county welfare board or overseer or county adjuster as the case may be to whom it has been mailed shall proceed to contest the allegation of the settlement of the poor person or of the right to remove him to such county or municipality.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-71 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-71
Definitions relative to Work First New Jersey program
Status: in_force

1. As used in this act: "Assistance unit" means: a single person without dependent children; a couple without dependent children; dependent children only; or a person or couple with one or more dependent children who are legally or blood-related, or who is their legal guardian, and who live together as a household unit. "Benefits" means any assistance provided to needy persons and their dependent children and needy single persons and couples without dependent children under the Work First New Jersey program established pursuant to P.L.1997, c.38 (C.44:10-55 et seq.). "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services. "County agency" means the county agency that was administering the aid to families with dependent children program at the time the federal "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996," Pub.L.104-193, was enacted and which, upon the enactment of P.L.1997, c.37 (C.44:10-71 et al.) shall also administer the Work First New Jersey program in that county. "Department" means the Department of Human Services. "Dependent child" means a child: a. under the age of 18; b. under the age of 19 and a full-time student in a secondary school or an equivalent level of vocational or technical training, if, before the student attains age 19, the student may reasonably be expected to complete the student's program of secondary school or training; or c. under the age of 21 and enrolled in a special education program, who is living in New Jersey with the child's natural or adoptive parent or legal guardian, or with a relative designated by the commissioner in a place of residence maintained by the relative as the relative's home. "Full-time employment" means employment unsubsidized by any level of government in which a person is engaged for at least 35 hours a week. "Legal guardian" means the person who exercises continuing control over the person or property, or both, of a child, including any specific right of control over an aspect of the child's upbringing, pursuant to a court order. "Program" means the Work First New Jersey program established pursuant to P.L.1997, c. 38 (C.44:10-55 et seq.). "Recipient" means a recipient of benefits under the Work First New Jersey program established pursuant to P.L.1997, c. 38 (C.44:10-55 et seq.). L.1997,c.37,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-34 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-34
§ 44:4-34
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall appoint such other officers, assistants and employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. All employees of the county welfare board shall hold their office or employment during good behavior, and may be removed upon written charges and after a hearing, due notice of which shall be given therefor by the county welfare board, for misconduct, neglect or incompetence.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-7 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-7
§ 44:5-7
Status: in_force

Upon the execution of a contract by a city as provided in sections 44:5-4 and 44:5-6 of this title, the proper municipal authorities of the city shall annually during the existence of the contract appropriate and raise by taxation in the manner in which other city taxes are assessed, levied and collected in the city, a sum equal to one-third of a mill on every dollar of assessable property returned by the assessor of the city, which sum when so appropriated shall be paid to the treasurer of the board of trustees, governors or directors of the hospital named in the contract.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-30 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-30
§ 44:1-30
Status: in_force

The superintendent of welfare under the general rules and regulations shall receive in the welfare-house such poor persons as by law are properly receivable therein, or as otherwise by law may be provided, and all such persons as would otherwise be receivable in a county or municipal almshouse, and who have settlements therein, except the poor of municipalities which do not participate in the support and maintenance of the welfare-house.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-34 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-34
§ 44:1-34
Status: in_force

The expense under such contract shall be provided for by appropriation and paid in the same manner as other county expenses, except that it shall be levied, assessed and collected only from municipalities participating and not from those which elect not to participate and which maintain their own permanent poor.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-83 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-83
Appointment and powers of deputy overseers
Status: in_force

In municipalities, other than counties, having not less than five thousand inhabitants, or where the overseer has jurisdiction in more than one municipality, the governing body or bodies may appoint a deputy overseer. A deputy overseer shall have resided in the state for at least one year and shall have other qualifications like those necessary for overseers. He shall be under the direction of the overseer, and be vested on the approval of the overseer with the same power in the distribution of relief and like authority for prosecution or defense in court proceedings.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-50 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-50
§ 44:1-50
Status: in_force

The sums of money raised in the respective counties in any manner authorized shall, on receipt thereof by the county treasurers, be paid to and held by the treasurer of the county in which the district welfare-house is situated, and be deposited in a separate account in a state or national bank located and doing business in that county.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-152 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-152
Visitation of sick poor by official physicians and nurses
Status: in_force

When a physician or nurse who is employed by the governing body of a municipality in this state is called upon or notified by the overseer of the poor of the municipality to visit a poor person who is ill or injured, he shall make the visit and render such medical aid as the case may demand.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-83 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-83
§ 44:4-83
Status: in_force

The director of welfare, by a written order, shall render such aid and material relief as he may in his discretion, subject to the approval of the county welfare board, deem necessary to the end that such person may not suffer unnecessarily from cold or hunger, or be deprived of shelter.
N.J. Stat. § 44:14-2 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-2
Legislative findings and declarations
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares: that there is a wide disparity in the cost of welfare between counties despite the assumption of the major portion of such costs by the Federal and State Governments; that the county costs are reflected in the real property taxes paid by the county residents; that the tax reform program enacted in 1976 is designed to relieve property tax burdens; that, consistent with the objectives of that tax reform program, it is altogether fitting and proper to establish a program to provide relief for local taxpayers by placing certain limitations on the per capita costs of county welfare. L.1981, c. 60, s. 2, eff. March 3, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-90 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-90
Eligibility for medical assistance under New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act
Status: in_force

Any person eligible for basic payments under the Federal Act, any person eligible for supplementary payments and any essential person, may be determined pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner to be eligible for medical assistance under the New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act, P.L.1968, c. 413. Any person who would be financially eligible for basic payments or supplementary payments, or both, who is in an institution and financially ineligible for such payments by reason of the lower maximum income eligibility level under the Federal Act for persons residing in institutions, shall be eligible for medical assistance under the New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act, P.L.1968, c. 413. L.1973, c. 256, s. 6, eff. Nov. 28, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-60 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-60
§ 44:1-60
Status: in_force

Counties not determining to adopt such county or joint county purpose shall continue to support and relieve the permanent poor thereof as is otherwise lawful.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-26 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-26
§ 44:4-26
Status: in_force

When the board of chosen freeholders shall establish a county welfare-house for the permanent maintenance and relief of the poor in any county and shall have acquired a site therefor, awarded contracts for the necessary building and improvements thereon, and resolved to maintain a county welfare-house as is provided in this chapter, the county welfare board shall constitute the board of managers of such welfare-house. As such board of managers the county welfare board shall have charge of all matters relating to the government, discipline, contracts and fiscal concerns of the welfare-house as appropriated by the chosen freeholders, and shall make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of such welfare-house.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8A-48 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8A / Section 8A-48
Repeal; sections superseded
Status: in_force

Sections ten to fifteen, inclusive, and sections twenty-one to twenty-four, inclusive, of chapter one hundred thirty of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty are hereby expressly repealed. Sections 44:1-102 to 44:1-127, inclusive, and sections 44:4-57 to 44:4-81, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes are hereby superseded insofar as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this act. L.1941, c. 357, p. 942, s. 48.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-139 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-139
Transfer of current budget appropriation for public assistance
Status: in_force

No municipality receiving State aid for relief for any year shall, during said year, make any transfer of its current budget appropriation for public assistance for said year to any other current budget appropriation. L.1947, c. 156, p. 705, s. 33.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-22 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-22
§ 44:1-22
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders shall provide and maintain, for the use of the county welfare board, a working expense fund of not more than three hundred dollars, which fund shall be raised as other expense money is required by this chapter to be provided. Payments therefrom shall be made out of the county treasury on the voucher of the secretary-treasurer.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-84 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-84
Appointment, salaries and removal of deputies, assistants and others
Status: in_force

The governing body or bodies may appoint such other assistants, clerks, visitors and nurses as in their judgment may be expedient, and fix their salaries and that of the deputy overseer, which salaries shall be in lieu of all fees. The deputy overseer and the assistants, clerks and nurses shall work under the direction of the overseer, shall hold their office or employment during good behavior, and may be removed by the governing body upon written charges and after a hearing upon due notice for misconduct, neglect or incompetence.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-13 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-13
§ 44:4-13
Status: in_force

A welfare-house shall be subject to inspection by duly authorized representatives of the state board, the commissioner and the state board of health; and whenever a county shall provide for the relief and maintenance of its permanent poor in a welfare-house of another county, such welfare-house shall always be open to inspection by a duly authorized agent of the board of chosen freeholders of any county maintaining its permanent poor therein, and of the state board, the commissioner and the state board of health.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-112 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-112
Food and Nutrition Service, permit funds available, "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program", delivery fees.
Status: in_force

1. The Commissioner of Human Services shall request that the Food and Nutrition Service within the United States Department of Agriculture take such steps as are necessary to permit funds available through the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" (SNAP), established pursuant to the federal "Food and Nutrition Act of 2008," Pub.L.88-525 (7 U.S.C. s.2011 et seq.), to be utilized by individuals receiving SNAP benefits to pay the delivery fee levied by an authorized New Jersey SNAP retailer for home delivery of the individual's SNAP-eligible purchase. L.2023, c.236.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-58 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-58
§ 44:1-58
Status: in_force

The property of the district used and maintained for the purpose shall be free from taxation, and subject to the like privileges and immunities as exist and are provided and extended to other almshouses or welfare-houses in counties or municipalities.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-77 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-77
"Medical assistance for the aged" defined
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this act "medical assistance for the aged" means payment for and on behalf of eligible individuals of part or all of the costs of the following services to the extent authorized in regulations adopted pursuant to this act: (a) In-patient hospital ward services; (b) Skilled nursing home services; and (c) Home health care services required by reason of an illness necessitating confinement at home for a prolonged period. L.1962, c. 222, s. 2. Amended by L.1969, c. 227, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 44:5-18.1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-18.1
Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of indigent residents; appropriation for
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders of any county which has no county mental or psychiatric hospital or clinic may appropriate not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) per annum for the necessary expense incident to the diagnosis and treatment of such indigent residents in the county as may require psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, including the cost of diagnosis, special mental tests and treatment. Before expending money for such purposes, the board of chosen freeholders shall adopt such rules and regulations as it deems advisable concerning the requirement of residents and eligibility for such relief. Disbursements shall be made through officers designated by the board of chosen freeholders for that purpose on verified bills presented and approved as in the case of other county expenditures. L.1952, c. 119, p. 459, s. 1, eff. May 5, 1952.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-110 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-110
Rules, regulations.
Status: in_force

4. The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act. L.2021, c.245, s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-38 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-38
Permanent and total disability; assistance from county welfare board; residence
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions of this act and the provisions of chapter 7 of Title 44 of the Revised Statutes as hereinafter specified, any needy person residing in New Jersey who has attained the age of 18 but is less than 65 years of age, who is permanently and totally disabled by reason of any physical or mental defect, disease, or impairment other than blindness, shall be entitled to receive assistance from the county welfare board of the county in which he resides. The residence of any patient discharged from a mental hospital directly to a sheltered boarding facility shall be the county wherein such person resided immediately preceding his last admission to said mental hospital. L.1951, c. 139, p. 593, s. 1. Amended by L.1952, c. 24, p. 110, s. 4, eff. July 1, 1952; L.1969, c. 110, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-153 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-153
Further medical or other relief
Status: in_force

If in the judgment of the physician or nurse the person visited and aided is a poor person within the meaning of this chapter, the physician or nurse shall report the fact in writing to the overseer of the poor of the municipality who may grant such further medical, surgical or other relief to the poor person as the circumstances may require or as the overseer may deem necessary.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-53 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-53
Waiving compliance with Work First New Jersey program for certain projects
Status: in_force

10. In the case of an experimental, pilot or demonstration project which in the judgment of the commissioner is likely to assist in promoting the objectives of the Work First New Jersey program, or to promote the objectives of the Title IV-D child support enforcement program in the State, the commissioner may waive compliance with the requirements of the Work First New Jersey program to the extent the commissioner deems necessary to carry out the project and for a period of time not to exceed three years, during which time the commissioner shall report to the Legislature on the progress of the project at least every six months; except that the commissioner shall not waive compliance with the provisions of subsection h. of section 8 of P.L. 1997, c.38 (C.44:10-62) or implement a pilot or demonstration project that circumvents or obstructs a collective bargaining agreement. The commissioner shall provide an opportunity for public comment prior to the implementation of the project. The commissioner shall establish any fiscal or evaluative terms and conditions for the project that he deems appropriate. L.1997,c.14,s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-26 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-26
Claims for state's share filed monthly; approval and payment
Status: in_force

Claims for the state's share as provided in section 44:7-25 of this title shall be presented monthly in advance by the county welfare board through the state division to the comptroller of the treasury, and shall be paid to the treasurers of the respective county welfare boards. The approval of such claims shall be made by the state division which shall certify to the comptroller of the treasury the amount to which each county is entitled. The amount so certified shall be paid from the state treasury upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller to the treasurers of the respective welfare boards.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-130 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-130
§ 44:4-130
Status: in_force

Final action by the board of chosen freeholders of the county on the resolution shall be adjourned for at least one month from the time of the proposal of such resolution, at which time such final action shall be taken except as provided in section 44:4-131 of this title.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-144 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-144
Laws saved from repeal or modification
Status: in_force

This act shall not be construed to repeal, alter or modify the provisions of chapter one of Title 44, or chapter four of Title 44, of the Revised Statutes except to the extent herein otherwise expressly provided nor to repeal, alter, amend or modify the provisions of chapter seven of Title 44, or chapter five of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes or of "An act concerning the legal settlement of certain needy persons, providing for the administration of public assistance in certain cases and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof and repealing sections ten to fifteen, both inclusive, and sections twenty-one to twenty-four, both inclusive, of "An act to provide for the protection, welfare of and financial assistance to certain needy persons in the State of New Jersey, providing for the administration thereof, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof,' approved June eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty (P.L.1940, c. 130)," approved August fourth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one (P.L.1941, c. 357). L.1947, c. 156, p. 707, s. 38.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-73.3 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-73.3
No deprivation of certain county powers
Status: in_force

Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive counties which have adopted Title 44:4 of the Revised Statutes of their powers and duties as provided in 9:17-1.1 of the Revised Statutes. L.1946, c. 110, p. 341, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-69 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-69
§ 44:4-69
Status: in_force

Every person who has, or shall acquire a settlement in any county shall be chargeable as to permanent relief and be supported and maintained or relieved by such entire county, and the board of chosen freeholders shall provide for the payment of the expense thereof as other county expenses are paid.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-114 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-114
Administration and funding of public assistance
Status: in_force

8. a. The State shall provide, through each municipality or county, as appropriate, public assistance to the persons eligible therefor, residing therein or otherwise when so provided by law, which assistance shall be fully funded by the State and administered by a local assistance board or the county welfare agency according to law and in accordance with P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et seq.) and with such rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the commissioner. b. An employable person who is receiving public assistance shall be required, except when good cause exists, to comply with the requirements of the Work First New Jersey program pursuant to P.L.1997, c.38 (C.44:10-55 et seq.). c. The commissioner may exempt a person from the provisions of subsection b. of this section for reasons of physical or mental impairment, age, illness or injury, caretaker responsibilities, employment or unsuitability, as determined by the commissioner. Any person who without good cause fails or refuses to comply with the requirements of the Work First New Jersey program, according to rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner, shall be subject to the provisions of section 9 of P.L.1997, c.38 (C.44:10-63). L.1947,c.156,s.8; amended 1977, c.286, s.3; 1979, c.267; 1985, c.471; 1990, c.66, s.17; 1991, c.523, s.14; 1995, c.259, s.19; 1997, c.37, s.15.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-22 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-22
§ 44:7-22
Status: in_force

All old age assistance under this chapter shall be reconsidered from time to time as may be provided for by the rules of the state division. After such further investigation as the county welfare board may deem necessary or the state division may require, the amount and manner of giving assistance, or the conditions upon which it is given, may be changed, or the assistance may be withdrawn if the county welfare board finds that such action is warranted by the recipient's circumstances or for cause.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-97.1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-97.1
New Jersey SNAP ETP participation not required to receive SNAP benefits; information provided to recipients.
Status: in_force

1. a. The NJ SNAP ETP shall be a voluntary program, and the Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services or a county welfare agency shall not require participation in a NJ SNAP ETP activity or in a New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Provider 50/50 Match Project, as established under P.L.2013, c.45 (C.44:10-95 et seq.), in order to be deemed eligible for SNAP benefits. b. The division and each county welfare agency shall ensure that all recipients of SNAP benefits are provided information regarding, and the opportunity to participate in, employment and training opportunities consistent with federal SNAP ETP reimbursement requirements. c. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the division or a county welfare agency to impose penalties for noncompliance with federal SNAP work requirements. d. The division shall submit, in a timely manner, any necessary revisions to the State Employment and Training Plan to the Food and Nutrition Service in the United States Department of Agriculture, as required pursuant to federal regulations, in order to effectuate the provisions of this section. e. As used in this section: "NJ SNAP ETP" means the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Program that assists SNAP recipients with acquiring the skills, training, work, or experience necessary to obtain regular employment, as established under the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and as described in the most recent State Employment and Training Plan submitted to the Food and Nutrition Service in the United States Department of Agriculture. "New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Provider 50/50 Match Project" means the project established pursuant to P.L.2013, c.45 (C.44:10-95 et seq.). "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" or "SNAP" means the program established pursuant to the federal "Food and Nutrition Act of 2008," Pub.L.110-246 (7 U.S.C. s.2011 et seq.). "SNAP ETP" means the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Program administered by the Food and Nutrition Service in the United States Department of Agriculture and established pursuant to the federal "Food and Nutrition Act of 2008," Pub.L.110-246 (7 U.S.C. s.2011 et seq.) and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto. L.2022, c.27, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-92 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-92
Length of stay of poor persons in institutions
Status: in_force

A poor person or child who is committed or removed to an almshouse or welfare-house by an overseer shall be received by the supervisor or superintendent, and be supported and relieved therein until in the case of a person not a minor it shall appear that the person is no longer a poor person within the meaning of this chapter, when in the discretion of the supervisor or superintendent the person so removed may be discharged, and immediately thereafter a written notice of such removal or discharge shall be sent to the overseer or superintendent on whose order the person was received into the almshouse or welfare-house, stating the reason for such removal or discharge and the name of the person, society or board, if any, into whose care or custody the person has been discharged.
N.J. Stat. § 44:2-6 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-6
§ 44:2-6
Status: in_force

When an adult person has been duly committed to the almshouse of a county and the board of chosen freeholders shall deem it to the interest of the county or to the welfare of the other inmates of the almshouse that the person be not actually removed to and kept in the almshouse, the board may make such monthly allowance for the support of the person outside of the county almshouse as it may consider reasonable, not exceeding in any case the probable cost of maintaining the person in the county almshouse.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-93 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-93
Use of all agencies for relief
Status: in_force

All agencies for relief, such as widows' pensions as provided by law, aid under the authority of the rehabilitation commission and public employment service, or other aids to relief, support or assistance, public or private, shall be made use of by overseers and their subordinates and helpers to the end that causes of dependency on the part of persons or their families and the need for such public relief in whole or in part may be eliminated, and such subordinates and helpers are authorized under direction of the overseer or deputy to take such legal steps, either as prosecutors or petitioners in legal proceedings in aid of such persons or their families as may be necessary to such end.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-132 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-132
Counties furnishing hospitalization in maternity hospitals
Status: in_force

State aid shall also be payable to any county furnishing hospitalization in a county maternity hospital to nonpaying patients, who are bona fide public assistance cases, on the basis of the per diem rate currently fixed by the department for maternity hospitalization for mother or child, as the case may be, by multiplying the number of patient days of such hospitalization at said rate by the "public assistance percentage" of the several municipalities in which such patients respectively resided at the time of such hospitalization for the current year, which State aid shall be payable from time to time upon the filing with the commissioner by the president or chief executive officer of such county maternity hospital of statements under oath, in such form as shall be required by the commissioner, setting forth the hospitalization so rendered to each nonpaying patient, that each such patient is a bona fide public assistance case and any additional information which may be required by the commissioner, and shall be paid to the county treasurer of the county by the commissioner, as other payments of State aid are made, out of the Municipal Aid Fund or other funds appropriated from the State treasury for such purposes. L.1947, c. 156, p. 702, s. 26.
N.J. Stat. § 44:15-4 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-4
Compliance subject to appropriation of sufficient funds, funding availability, resources.
Status: in_force

4. Compliance with the requirements of P.L.2015, c.53 (C.44:15-1 et seq.) shall be subject to the appropriation of sufficient funds and the availability of sufficient resources. If sufficient funds and resources are unavailable to the department to enable full compliance with the provisions of P.L.2015, c.53 (C.44:15-1 et seq.), the department shall comply with its provisions to the extent possible within the limits of available funding and resources. L.2015, c.53, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-29 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-29
State treasurer to receive federal funds; adjustment between contributing agencies
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer may receive from the Federal Government such grants of money as shall represent the Federal Government's share of old age assistance and the administration cost thereof granted pursuant to Title I of the Federal Social Security Act, and shall cause said money grants to be set up in a special account or accounts subject to disbursement by the State division on the warrant of the Comptroller in the same manner as other funds of the State are disbursed. The State division may determine and cause to be made such financial adjustments as are necessary to maintain the proper proportion of contribution by the counties, State and Federal Government, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and the Federal Social Security Act, and to pay to the Treasurer of the United States its ratable portion, not exceeding one-half, of all sums recovered by way of reimbursement under section 44:7-15 of this Title. Amended by L.1938, c. 361, p. 915, s. 17, eff. July 1, 1938.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-39 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-39
§ 44:1-39
Status: in_force

When two or more contiguous and adjoining counties shall, by the boards of chosen freeholders thereof, so resolve to construct and maintain a district welfare-house jointly in lieu of a county welfare-house and municipal almshouses, which in such case shall be abolished except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the resolution shall at the next general election be submitted to the legal voters of each county, excepting the voters in municipalities which maintain their permanent poor in institutions and have, as authorized in section 44:1-61 of this title, elected not to participate. Public notice thereof shall be given by the boards of chosen freeholders by publication not less than thirty days prior to the election in a newspaper published and circulating in the county seat of each of the counties.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-28 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-28
§ 44:1-28
Status: in_force

The superintendent of welfare and the other officers and employees shall be subject to such rules and regulations in the discharge of their duties as may be provided by the county welfare board.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-80 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-80
Application for assistance; investigation; scope of payments
Status: in_force

No grant of medical assistance for the aged shall be made prior to the filing of an application therefor, and the making of an investigation to determine eligibility and the extent of need. No grant of medical assistance for the aged shall include any costs for services incurred prior to the date of the application, except costs for in-patient hospital services incurred within 30 days of the date of the application and subsequent to the effective date of this act. L.1962, c. 222, s. 5. Amended by L.1969, c. 227, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-56 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-56
§ 44:4-56
Status: in_force

For the wrongful neglect or refusal to keep the book according to the requirements of section 44:4-55 of this title, for the willful alteration of any entry in it, or for its willful mutilation or destruction, the person in charge shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered for the use of the county in an action at law in any court of competent jurisdiction, together with the costs of suit, by the welfare board controlling the institution.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-46 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-46
§ 44:4-46
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall keep a book, setting forth therein all money, goods, and materials received by it and, in addition thereto, a separate book of orders for relief, with stubs attached. The printed orders and stubs shall show the name, residence, when issued, the amount and kind of relief expended, and by whom issued and delivered. The order shall be indorsed by the recipient and countersigned by the county welfare board furnishing such relief as made.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-101 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-101
Relatives chargeable
Status: in_force

a. The father and mother of a person under 18 years of age who applies for and is eligible to receive public assistance, and the children, and husband or wife, severally and respectively, of a person who applies for and is eligible to receive public assistance, shall, if of sufficient ability, at his or their charge and expense, relieve and maintain the poor person or child in such manner as shall be ordered, after due notice and opportunity to be heard, by any county director of welfare, or by any court of competent jurisdiction upon its own initiative or the information of any person. b. The provisions of this section shall apply to the minor children of a mother whose husband shall fail properly to support and maintain such minor children when by reason thereof they are likely to become a public charge. c. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person 55 years of age or over except with regard to his or her spouse, or his or her natural or adopted child under the age of 18 years. Amended by L.1968, c. 446, s. 2, eff. Feb. 19, 1969; L.1975, c. 1, s. 2, eff. Jan. 14, 1975; L.1979, c. 401, s. 2, eff. Feb. 8, 1980.
N.J. Stat. § 44:4-7 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-7
§ 44:4-7
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders may erect all necessary buildings, make all necessary improvements and repairs, and alter any existing building for the use of the welfare-house, but the plans for such work shall first be approved by the state board and the state board of health.
N.J. Stat. § 44:15-1 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-1
Findings, declarations relative to elder economic security.
Status: in_force

1. The Legislature finds and declares that low-income elderly residents of the State are pressured by a widening gap between their increasing housing, health care, fuel, and utility expenses and their fixed incomes. Unfortunately, when income falls short of needs, the value of public support programs is often compromised by insufficient funding, low income limits, and asset limits that discourage savings. The New Jersey Elder Economic Security Standard Index (NJ Elder Index) is a tool that measures the income older adults require to make ends meet and to remain in their own homes. The NJ Elder Index and related data helps elders and policymakers quantify elder economic security; examine the components of economically secure elders' basic expenses; measure how well public policies can help fill these gaps; evaluate current income support programs' ability to move individuals toward economic security; calculate New Jersey's elder economic insecurity rate; and identify who is most likely to lack security. L.2015, c.53, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 44:7-4 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-4
§ 44:7-4
Status: in_force

No person receiving assistance under this chapter shall be deemed to be or classified as a pauper by reason thereof.
N.J. Stat. § 44:10-83 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-83
State payment of county administrative costs.
Status: in_force

5. The State shall pay the full amount of each county's administrative costs applicable to households that contain only persons eligible for the program. These costs shall be determined in accordance with the approved cost allocation plan of the department. L.1998,c.32,s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 44:8-143 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-143
Repeal
Status: in_force

The following acts together with all amendments thereof and supplements thereto are repealed: An act to provide for the protection, welfare of and financial assistance to certain needy persons in the State of New Jersey, providing for the administration thereof, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, approved June eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty (P.L.1940, c. 130); An act concerning the disbursement of certain State moneys and making an appropriation for the administration thereof, passed June twenty-fifth, one thousand nine hundred and forty (P.L.1940, c. 151); An act to abolish the State Financial Assistance Commission, to provide for the completion of said commission's affairs by the State Municipal Aid Administration, and to repeal chapter eight of Title 44 of the Revised Statutes, approved July eighth, one thousand nine hundred and forty (P.L.1940, c. 183); An act concerning the administration of relief, approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one (P.L.1941, c. 28); An act to provide for the physical rehabilitation by the State Municipal Aid Administration of certain persons heretofore or hereafter rejected for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, for physical disability, under the Federal Selective Training and Service Acts and transferring and appropriating the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) from the sums heretofore transferred and appropriated to the State Municipal Aid Administration, to provide for the payment of the cost thereof, approved October third, one thousand nine hundred and forty-two (P.L.1942, c. 306), but the repeal thereof shall not revive any acts or parts of acts repealed thereby. L.1947, c. 156, p. 706, s. 37.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-72 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-72
Penalty for failure properly to keep record book
Status: in_force

For the wrongful failure to keep such book according to the requirements of section 44:1-71 of this title, or for the willful alteration of an entry therein, or the willful mutilation or destruction thereof, the supervisor, superintendent or person in charge shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit in an action at law by the overseer of the poor of the municipality, superintendent or welfare board controlling the institution, for the use of the municipality, county or district.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-112 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-112
Permanent relief in municipality or county other than that of settlement
Status: in_force

Where a poor person who requires permanent relief in a municipality in which he is a resident or inhabitant, has a settlement in a municipality or county other than the one in which relief is sought, the overseer shall temporarily relieve the person and proceed to remove him to his place of settlement as directed in sections 44:1-117 to 44:1-127 of this title. Until the place of settlement is ascertained the overseer in his discretion may maintain and relieve the person in the same manner as other permanent poor having a settlement there.
N.J. Stat. § 44:1-23 — NJ Code / Title 44 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-23
§ 44:1-23
Status: in_force

The county welfare board shall annually make to the board of chosen freeholders a report of the financial management, expenditures and other operations of the welfare-house, and the number of persons maintained therein, together with its recommendations.