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SC Code § 43-5-1105 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1105. . State welfare policy.

 It is the policy of this State that personal responsibility and parental responsibility must be met if citizens are to attain independence. Further, it is the policy of this State that the welfare system must be based upon a reciprocal agreement between welfare recipients and taxpayers. There also must exist a common goal and vision between the parties, working together at the community level to make life better for all. It must assist families to become economically independent, provide tools to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency, and deter abuse of the system through fair and meaningful sanctions.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part I, Section 2, eff June 12, 1995.  Editor's Note  1995 Act No. 102, Part I, Section 1, provides that this act may be cited as the South Carolina Family Independence Act of 1995. It is codified predominantly as Title 43, Chapter 5, Article 9. For a complete list of sections affected by 1995 Act 102, consult the Statutory Tables Volume, Part II, Table B, Allocation and Disposition of Acts.
SC Code § 43-5-1110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1110. . Definitions.

 As used in this article:  (1) "Family Independence" or "Aid to Families with Dependent Children" or "FI" or "AFDC" means cash payments or stipends paid to individuals who meet established eligibility criteria.  (2) "Department" means the South Carolina State Department of Social Services.  (3) "Welfare" means cash assistance payments through the Family Independence program formerly known as the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program which must be provided as a stipend to assist families to become employed.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part II, Section 1, eff June 12, 1995; 1997 Act No. 133, Section 9, eff June 11, 1997.
SC Code § 43-5-1115 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1115. . Employment and training for those receiving assistance.

 It is the mandate of the General Assembly that the welfare system in South Carolina be restructured to assist families in poverty to become socially and economically independent. It is the purpose and goal of this legislation to establish the reform of the welfare system as a critical priority for the State and all of its agencies. Cooperation and innovation within and among all state agencies is necessary for the achievement of this goal. The office of the governor shall designate the lead agency for purposes of coordination and the avoidance, where practical, of duplication of services. The State Department of Social Services is mandated to fundamentally change its economic services operation to emphasize employment and training with a minor welfare component. To that end, the department shall expand its employment and training program statewide and shall, to the extent possible, coordinate with the existing resources of other state agencies when they are available and it is cost efficient to do so. The agency shall assist welfare recipients to maximize their strengths and abilities to become gainfully employed. Welfare assistance must be provided as a stipend to a family unit as long as there is satisfactory participation in required employment and training activities.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 1, eff June 12, 1995.
SC Code § 43-5-1125 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1125. . Sanctions for failing to comply with welfare agreement.

 (A) To emphasize the necessity of each family achieving independence and self-sufficiency, if an AFDC recipient fails without good cause to comply with the employment and training requirements contained in the agreement entered into between the recipient and the State Department of Social Services, the department shall:  (1) grant a thirty-day conciliation period for the recipient to reconsider the decision not to comply with the terms of the agreement. During this thirty-day period, the recipient has the right to appeal the department's decision to impose sanctions. At the end of this thirty-day period if the conciliation/fair hearing decision was not in the recipient's favor, all AFDC benefits must be terminated. Benefits may be reinstated when the recipient agrees to comply according to the terms of the agreement and demonstrates willingness to comply by participating in the employment and training program for a period of thirty days;  (2) terminate all AFDC benefits if the recipient completes the training requirements contained in the agreement and then refuses an offer of employment.  (B) A recipient is not required to comply with the employment and training provisions of the agreement if the recipient is:  (1) a parent or caretaker relative with a child under one year of age; however, custodial parents under age twenty-five who have not completed their high school education are required to comply with these provisions regardless of the age of the child;  (2) at least six months pregnant and the pregnancy is verified by a qualified licensed health care provider;  (3) incapacitated and the incapacity is verified by a physician, and if the department considers it necessary, confirmed by an assessment performed by the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, as a physical or mental impairment that prevents the recipient from engaging in gainful employment or participating in education or training;  (4) caring for an incapacitated person whose incapacity has been verified by a physician and, if the department considers it necessary, confirmed by an assessment performed by the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation;  (5) unable to participate because child care and reasonable transportation were not provided when needed for participation in employment and training programs.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 11, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation; 1996 Act No. 452, Section 13, eff July 1, 1996.
SC Code § 43-5-1130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1130. . County departmental goals for hiring welfare recipients.

 To emphasize the importance of education, training, and employment in restructuring the welfare system, the department shall establish goals for the placement and retention of AFDC recipients in employment programs for each county welfare office. These goals must be reflected in the Employee Performance Evaluation of all appropriate department employees.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 10, eff June 12, 1995.
SC Code § 43-5-1135 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1135. . State agency goals to recruit and employ welfare recipients.

 Each agency which is a member of the South Carolina Retirement System shall establish recruitment and hiring goals which shall target ten percent of all jobs requiring a high school diploma or less to be filled with family independence or food stamp recipients. A question concerning receipt of family independence benefits or food stamps may be added to the state employment application for purposes of targeting these applicants. Each agency annually shall report to the South Carolina Department of Social Services the number of family independence and food stamp recipients employed in comparison to the established goal.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 7, eff June 12, 1995; 1997 Act No. 133, Section 11, eff June 11, 1997; 1999 Act No. 100, Part II, Section 32, eff July 1, 1999.
SC Code § 43-5-1140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1140. . Labor market and occupational information to be provided to department.

 The Department of Employment and Workforce shall provide the department up-to-date labor market information to assist department employment and training staff in the development of recipient employment goals and training plans to be outlined in individual agreements. The Department of Employment and Workforce also, through contractual agreement, shall provide the South Carolina Occupational Information System to each of the department's local offices to assist with career counseling and career planning activities. To the extent possible, all other state agencies shall provide the department with access to appropriate economic and demographic data concerning AFDC applicants and recipients.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 3, eff June 12, 1995.
SC Code § 43-5-1145 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1145. . Cash assistance payments paid as wage subsidy or tax credit.

 To maximize employment opportunities for welfare recipients and to provide for additional job training and placement efforts, instead of making cash assistance payments to AFDC recipients, these payments or some portion of these payments may be paid as a wage subsidy or given as a tax credit to employers offering new jobs as a result of a new business or an expansion of an existing business, subject to the guidelines of the department.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 5, eff June 12, 1995.
SC Code § 43-5-1150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1150. . Job Training and Partnership Act incentive funds.

 To expand available job training activities for AFDC recipients, the Governor may target future incentive funds under Title II-A of the Job Training and Partnership Act in such a way as to encourage the service delivery areas and local private industry councils to increase service levels and improve performance outcomes related to services to AFDC recipients.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 9, eff June 12, 1995.
SC Code § 43-5-1155 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1155. . Entrepreneurial development.

 The Department of Social Services shall seek funds for entrepreneurial development so that AFDC clients can create jobs and provide incentives for AFDC clients in their efforts to attain self-sufficiency and independence. The department shall identify markets for entrepreneurial development for AFDC clients, provide clients with job skills and opportunities to develop expertise in operating businesses, and allow clients to accrue savings, buy or earn stock in a business, or, over a period of time, purchase a business. In carrying out this program the department shall work in conjunction with public, community, and private sector entities including businesses, banks, and other institutions to develop strategies that provide financing, facilities, training, technical assistance, planning, and research to AFDC clients in their efforts to own their own businesses.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 15, eff June 12, 1995; 1996 Act No. 452, Section 14, eff July 1, 1996.
SC Code § 43-5-1160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1160. . Relocation assistance.

 The department may provide, as appropriate, relocation assistance to families who live in communities where few job opportunities exist. Assistance may be provided to assist recipients in accessing jobs which maximize their skills and abilities.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 4, eff June 12, 1995.
SC Code § 43-5-1165 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1165. . Teen parent independence initiative.

 The department, as part of the employment and training program, shall provide special educational and related services for teen parents to assist them in becoming economically independent and to provide health information. This teen parent initiative must be staffed by department personnel familiar with school dropout programs, family planning programs which comply with existing law, and parent effectiveness training programs, and whenever possible and practical, the department shall coordinate with comparable staff of other state and local agencies in providing these services.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 8, eff June 12, 1995.
SC Code § 43-5-1175 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1175. . No increase in welfare with increase in number of children.

 To encourage parents to plan for security and assume responsibility for their children, there must be no incremental increase in AFDC benefits to a family as a result of a child born to that parent ten or more months after the family begins to receive AFDC. This section does not apply if the department establishes that the child was conceived as a result of rape or incest. The State may provide benefits to a child born after ten months in the form of vouchers that may be used only to pay for particular goods and services specified by the State as needed for the child's mother to participate in education training and employment related activities.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part V, Section 1, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation.
SC Code § 43-5-1180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1180. . Participation in work support required when child is one year old.

 AFDC recipients must be encouraged to voluntarily participate in a work program when their youngest child reaches the age of six months, but in all cases the recipients must participate in a work program once their youngest child reaches age one.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part IV, Section 2, eff June 12, 1995.
SC Code § 43-5-1185 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1185. . Family skills training program.

 As a condition of eligibility for Family Independence benefits, each adult recipient determined to be in need of family skills by his Family Independence case manager, and minor mother recipient must participate in a family skills training program which must include, but is not limited to, parenting skills, financial planning, and health information. Whenever possible and practical, the department shall coordinate with comparable staff of other state and local agencies in providing these services.  This program must include an alcohol and other drug assessment when it is determined by the department that an assessment is appropriate. The department shall coordinate with the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services to provide the proper assessment of the recipient and training of the department personnel who are to conduct the assessment. If the recipient is determined to be in need of alcohol and other drug abuse treatment, the department shall coordinate the services with the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services and shall include the individually determined terms and conditions of the treatment in the recipient's agreement with the department.  This program must include a family planning assessment if it is determined by the department that an assessment is appropriate. The department shall coordinate with the Department of Health and Environmental Control to provide the AFDC family with education, evaluation, and counseling, consistent with Medicaid regulations. State funds appropriated for family planning must not be used to pay for an abortion.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part III, Section 12, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation; 1997 Act No. 133, Section 12, eff June 11, 1997.
SC Code § 43-5-1190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1190. . Eligibility denied on ground of alcohol or drug problem; treatment program required.

 A Family Independence recipient who, while receiving FI benefits, has been identified as requiring alcohol and other drug abuse treatment service or who has been convicted of an alcohol related offense or a controlled substance violation or gives birth to a child with evidence of the effects of maternal substance abuse and the child subsequently is shown to have a confirmed positive test performed on a suitable specimen within twenty-four hours of birth, is ineligible for FI assistance unless the recipient submits to random drug tests and/or participates in an alcohol or drug treatment program approved by the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services. Upon completion of the program, if a subsequent random test or subsequent conviction for a controlled substance violation occurs, the recipient is ineligible for FI benefits. Benefits may be reinstated at a later time upon reapplication, if the recipient first undergoes a conciliation assessment, including review and/or modification of the prescribed individual treatment program and agreement, and then agrees to comply with its terms and demonstrates compliance for a period of not less than sixty days. Testing of a child's specimen pursuant to this section must be conducted by a medical laboratory certified by the College of American Pathologists or the National Institute of Drug Abuse for Forensic Urine Drug Testing.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part V, Section 2, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation; 1997 Act No. 133, Section 12, eff June 11, 1997.
SC Code § 43-5-1195 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1195. . Eligibility based on parent's support and employment revised.

 To eliminate restrictions that break up families and to encourage the formation of new families, the department shall remove the requirement that a child be deprived of support from one or both parents to be eligible for assistance and shall remove the one hundred hour rule and the recent connection to the labor force rule.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part V, Section 5, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation.
SC Code § 43-5-1200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1200. . Vehicle and other asset limits.

 One licensed vehicle per licensed driver is exempt from the asset limit for Family Independence participants in work or training. The asset limit for all other assets is two thousand five hundred dollars.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part IV, Section 3, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation; 1997 Act No. 133, Section 13, eff June 11, 1997.
SC Code § 43-5-1205 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1205. . Interest income and dividends to be excluded.

 In order to assist AFDC families in gaining financial independence and in building for the future, the Department of Social Services shall apply to the federal government for a waiver allowing the State to exclude interest income and dividends up to four hundred dollars in determining eligibility and payment amounts for Aid to Families with Dependent Children.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part IV, Section 6, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation.
SC Code § 43-5-1210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1210. . Minor child's income to be excluded.

 To remove the disincentive to employment that occurs when a family's AFDC payment is reduced because of a minor child's earnings and to encourage children in AFDC families to develop positive work attitudes, the State shall apply to the federal government for a waiver to exclude income earned by a minor child attending school when determining eligibility or payment amount for Aid to Families with Dependent Children.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part IV, Section 5, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation.
SC Code § 43-5-1215 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 43 - Social Services|Chapter 5 - Public Aid, Assistance And Relief Generally|Section 43-5-1215. . Welfare recipients under age eighteen must attend school.

 Welfare recipients under the age of eighteen must be enrolled and maintain satisfactory attendance, as defined by the Department of Education, in school as a condition of eligibility for benefits.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 102, Part V, Section 3, approved June 12, 1995 and takes effect ninety days after receipt of approval of a federal waiver authorizing the department to implement these provisions or ninety days after federal law permits implementation.