reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.22 | Cooperation in Establishing Paternity and Obtaining Child Support.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|As used in this section, "caretaker" means the parent of a minor child or a relative acting in the parent's place.Unless good cause for failure or refusal exists as determined pursuant to rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code, the caretaker of a minor child shall cooperate, if the caretaker is a member of the child's assistance group, in establishing the child's paternity and establishing, modifying, and enforcing a support order for the child. The child support enforcement agency with responsibility for administering the assistance group's paternity and support order requirements shall determine whether the caretaker is cooperating under this section. Cooperation includes providing sufficient information available to the caretaker to verify the identity of the minor child's father and establish, modify, and enforce a support order. With respect to charter counties only, cooperation also includes appearing at all proceedings to establish, modify, or enforce support for, and to establish paternity with respect to, the child.A child support enforcement agency shall notify the county department of job and family services serving the county in which a caretaker resides if the agency determines that the caretaker has failed or refused to cooperate under this section without good cause and the caretaker is a member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.26 | Terminating Employment Without Just Cause.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "transitional child care" means publicly funded child care provided under division (A)(3) of section 5104.34 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section:(1) Each member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first is ineligible to participate in the program for six payment months if a county department of job and family services determines that a member of the assistance group terminated the member's employment.(2) Each person who, on the day prior to the day a recipient begins to receive transitional child care, was a member of the recipient's assistance group is ineligible to participate in Ohio works first for six payment months if a county department determines that the recipient terminated the recipient's employment.(C) No assistance group member shall lose or be denied eligibility to participate in Ohio works first pursuant to division (B) of this section if the termination of employment was because an assistance group member or recipient of transitional child care secured comparable or better employment or the county department of job and family services certifies that the member or recipient terminated the employment with just cause.Just cause includes the following:(1) Discrimination by an employer based on age, race, sex, color, handicap, religious beliefs, or national origin;(2) Work demands or conditions that render continued employment unreasonable, such as working without being paid on schedule;(3) Employment that has become unsuitable due to any of the following:(a) The wage is less than the federal minimum wage;(b) The work is at a site subject to a strike or lockout, unless the strike has been enjoined under section 208 of the "Labor-Management Relations Act," 61 Stat. 155 (1947), 29 U.S.C.A. 178, as amended, an injunction has been issued under section 10 of the "Railway Labor Act," 44 Stat. 586 (1926), 45 U.S.C.A. 160, as amended, or an injunction has been issued under section 4117.16 of the Revised Code;(c) The documented degree of risk to the member or recipient's health and safety is unreasonable;(d) The member or recipient is physically or mentally unfit to perform the employment, as documented by medical evidence or by reliable information from other sources.(4) Documented illness of the member or recipient or of another assistance group member of the member or recipient requiring the presence of the member or recipient;(5) A documented household emergency;(6) Lack of adequate child care for children of the member or recipient who are under six years of age.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.28 | Learnfare Program.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) As used in this section and in sections 5107.281 to 5107.287 of the Revised Code:(1) "Cash assistance payment" means the monthly amount an assistance group is eligible to receive under Ohio works first.(2) "Parent" means the parent, guardian, custodian, or specified relative with charge or care of a learnfare participant.(3) "Participating student" means a participant of Ohio works first who is subject to the school attendance requirement of the learnfare program as determined under section 5107.281 of the Revised Code.(B) The department of job and family services shall establish the learnfare program. The board of county commissioners of any county may choose to have the county participate in the learnfare program. The county department of job and family services of each participating county shall administer the program in accordance with sections 5107.28 to 5107.287 of the Revised Code and policies the county department establishes for the program.(C) The program shall provide for reduction in the cash assistance payment to the assistance group of a participating student if the student fails to comply with the program's school attendance requirement two or more times during a school year.(D) The program may provide for an incentive to encourage a parent or, if a participating student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student to consent to the release of the participating student's school attendance records and the participating student to comply with the program's school attendance requirement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.281 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.281 | Mandatory Participation in Learnfare Program.

Effective: September 14, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 113 - 131st General Assembly|A participant of Ohio works first who is enrolled in a school district in a county that is participating in the learnfare program and is not younger than age six but not older than age nineteen shall participate in the learnfare program unless one of the following is the case:(A) The participant is not yet eligible for enrollment in first grade;(B) The participant is subject to the LEAP program;(C) The participant has received one of the following:(1) A high school diploma;(2) A certificate stating that the participant has achieved the equivalent of a high school education as measured by scores obtained on a high school equivalency test approved by the department of education pursuant to division (B) of section 3301.80 of the Revised Code.(D) The participant has been excused from school attendance pursuant to section 3321.04 of the Revised Code;(E) If child care services for a member of the participant's household are necessary for the participant to attend school, child care licensed or certified under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code or under sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 of the Revised Code and transportation to and from the child care are not available;(F) The participant has been adjudicated a delinquent or unruly child pursuant to section 2151.28 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.282 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.282 | Notice of Noncompliance With Learnfare Program's School Attendance Requirement.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|The first time during a school year that a participating student fails to comply with the learnfare program's school attendance requirement, the county department of job and family services shall send the parent a notice warning that, if the student fails a second or subsequent time in the school year to comply with the school attendance requirement, the assistance group's cash assistance payment for the second month following report of the failure under section 5107.287 of the Revised Code will be reduced to the amount the assistance group would be eligible to receive if the student was not a member of the assistance group. The county department shall send the notice not later than the last day of the month that it is informed of the first failure to comply.If a participating student fails two or more times in a school year to comply with the school attendance requirement, the county department shall reduce the assistance group's cash assistance payment for the second month following report of the failure. The county department shall reduce the cash assistance payment to the amount the assistance group would be eligible to receive if the participating student was not a member of the assistance group.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.283 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.283 | Incentives for Meeting Learnfare School Attendance Requirement.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|The county department of job and family services may provide an incentive established by the county department to the participating student or student's assistance group, whichever is appropriate, if the parent or, if the student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student, consents to the release of the student's school attendance records and the student complies with the learnfare school attendance requirement. An incentive may be a cash bonus or other form of incentive. The county department shall not receive any additional state or federal funds to pay for incentives.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.284 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.284 | Reducing Assistance for Refusal to Consent to Release of Records.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|The county department of job and family services shall require the parent of each participating student, or, if the student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student to consent to release of the student's school attendance records. If the parent or participating student refuses to consent, the county department shall reduce the assistance group's cash assistance payment for the month immediately following the month of the refusal and each month thereafter until consent is given. The cash assistance payment shall be reduced to the amount the assistance group would be eligible to receive if neither the participating student nor the parent were members of the assistance group.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.285 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.285 | Noncompliance With Learnfare Program's School Attendance Requirement Not to Affect Other Members of Group.

Effective: October 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly|Notwithstanding a reduction in a cash assistance payment under section 5107.282 or 5107.284 of the Revised Code, all members of the assistance group who are otherwise eligible to participate in Ohio works first shall continue to be considered participants of the program.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.286 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.286 | Communications Concerning Participating Student's Attendance.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|Communications between the school district and the county department of job and family services concerning a participating student's attendance shall be made only through the attendance officers and assistants appointed under section 3321.14 or 3321.15 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.287 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.287 | Good Cause for Being Absent From School.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|The county department of job and family services shall establish policies defining "good cause for being absent from school" and specifying what constitutes a day of attendance for purposes of the learnfare program's school attendance requirement.Not later than the fifteenth day of each month of a school year or another time agreed to by the county department of job and family services and state board of education but not later than the thirtieth day of each month, each attendance officer or assistant appointed under section 3321.14 or 3321.15 of the Revised Code who oversees the attendance of students enrolled in the school districts of a county that is participating in the learnfare program shall report to the county department of job and family services the previous month's school attendance record of each participating student. The report shall specify which if any of the participating student's absences are excused because the absence meets the definition of "good cause for being absent from school." No absence for which there is good cause shall be considered in determining whether a participating student has complied with the learnfare program's school attendance requirement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.301 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.301 | Award to Leap Program Graduates for Post-Secondary Education.

Effective: January 1, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly|For the purpose of encouraging individuals who have successfully completed the requirements of the LEAP program to enroll in post-secondary education, the director of job and family services may provide an award to such individuals who enroll in post-secondary education. If provided, the award shall be provided in accordance with rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.36 | Fugitive Felons and Probation or Parole Violators Ineligible for Participation.

Effective: September 29, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly|An individual is ineligible for assistance under Ohio works first if either of the following apply: (A) The individual is a fugitive felon as defined in section 5101.20 of the Revised Code;(B) The individual is violating a condition of probation, a community control sanction, parole, or a post-release control sanction imposed under federal or state law.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.37 | Ineligibility of Residents of Public Institutions.

Effective: September 26, 2003|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an individual who resides in a county home, city infirmary, jail, or other public institution is not eligible to participate in Ohio works first.(B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to a minor child residing with the minor child's mother who participates in a prison nursery program established under section 5120.65 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.41 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.41 | Appraisal of Each Member of Assistance Group Who Is Minor Head of Household or Adult.

Effective: September 29, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly|As soon as possible after an assistance group submits an application to participate in Ohio works first, the county department of job and family services that receives the application shall schedule and conduct an appraisal of each member of the assistance group who is a minor head of household or adult, other than a minor head of household participating in the LEAP program. The appraisal may include an evaluation of the employment, educational, physiological, and psychological abilities or liabilities, or both, of the minor head of household or adult. At the appraisal, the county department shall develop with the minor head of household or adult a plan for the assistance group to achieve the goal of self sufficiency and personal responsibility through unsubsidized employment within the time limit for participating in the Ohio works first program established by section 5107.18 of the Revised Code. The plan shall include assignments to one or more work activities, developmental activities, or alternative work activities in accordance with section 5107.42 of the Revised Code. The county department shall include the plan in the self-sufficiency contract entered into under section 5107.14 of the Revised Code. The county department shall conduct more appraisals of the minor head of household or adult at times the county department determines.If the minor head of household or adult claims to have a medically determinable physiological or psychological impairment, illness, or disability, the county department may require that the minor head of household or adult undergo an independent medical or psychological examination at a time and place reasonably convenient to the minor head of household or adult.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.43 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.43 | Placement in Assigned Activity.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) After a minor head of household or adult is assigned to a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity under section 5107.42 of the Revised Code, a county department of job and family services shall place the minor head of household or adult in the assigned activity as soon as the activity becomes available.(B)(1) Except as provided in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code, a minor head of household or adult placed in one or more work activities or developmental activities shall participate in the activities at least the following number of hours each week as determined by the county department:(a) In the case of a minor head of household or adult in an assistance group that includes only one adult, thirty hours;(b) In the case of adults in an assistance group that includes two adults, thirty-five hours between the two adults.(2) Of the hours specified in division (B)(1) of this section, a minor head of household or adult shall participate in one or more work activities at least twenty hours a week. After the minor head of household or adult has participated in a work activity established under section 5107.58 of the Revised Code for one thousand forty hours, the minor head of household or adult may not participate in that work activity for more than five hours a week. The minor head of household or adult may participate in one or more developmental activities for up to ten hours a week, including a developmental activity that is identical to a work activity established under section 5107.58 of the Revised Code.(3) If a minor head of household or adult and county department agree, the minor head of household or adult may volunteer to participate in work activities and developmental activities for more than the number of weekly hours the county department determines under division (B)(1) of this section.(C) A minor head of household or adult placed in one or more alternative work activities shall participate in the activities a number of hours each week a county department determines.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.44 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.44 | Exceeding Federal Minimum Work Activity Participation Rates.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|County departments of job and family services, on a statewide average basis, shall exceed the federal minimum work activity participation rates established by section 407(a) of Title IV-A, 42 U.S.C.A. 607(a), by not less than five percentage points.
Ohio Rev Code § 5107.50 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5107 | Ohio Works First Program|Section 5107.50 | Job Search and Readiness Program.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|There is hereby established, as a work activity under Ohio works first, the job search and readiness program under which applicants for and participants of Ohio works first are trained in strategies and skills in obtaining employment and engage in self-directed, job search activities. County departments of job and family services shall develop and administer the program and may utilize the services of private or government entities under contract with the county department or the department of job and family services in operating the program.A county department may assign a minor head of household or adult applying for Ohio works first to the job search and readiness program before the applicant's eligibility for Ohio works first is determined.An applicant or participant assigned to the job search and readiness program may not participate in the program for more than six weeks, unless the unemployment rate of the state is at least fifty per cent greater than the unemployment rate of the United States, in which case the applicant or participant may participate in the program not more than twelve weeks. An applicant or participant may not participate in the program more than four consecutive weeks. For one time only per applicant or participant, a county department shall consider the applicant or participant to have participated in the program one week after the applicant or participant participates for three or four, as specified by the county department, days during the week.