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MO Rev Stat § 208.055 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.055 - Public assistance recipients required to cooperate in establishing paternity — assignment of child support rights, when — public assistance defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 2009   208.055. Public assistance recipients required to cooperate in establishing paternity — assignment of child support rights, when — public assistance defined. — 1. A person who has applied for or is receiving public assistance under programs funded under Part A of Title IV or Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act shall:  (1) Cooperate in good faith in establishing the paternity of, or in establishing, modifying, or enforcing a support order for any child of such person by providing the family support division with the name of the noncustodial parent of the child and such other information as the division may require with respect to such parent, subject to good cause and other exceptions to be applied in each case as defined by the family support division; and  (2) A person who has applied for or is receiving assistance under programs funded under Part A of Title IV of the federal Social Security Act shall assign to the state any rights to support from any other person such applicant may have in the applicant's own behalf or on behalf of any other family member for whom the applicant is applying for or receiving public assistance. An application for public assistance shall constitute an assignment of support rights and shall take effect by operation of law upon a determination that the applicant is eligible for public assistance. The assignment shall comply with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. Section 608(a)(3), and authorizes the family support division to bring any administrative or judicial action to establish, modify or enforce a current support obligation, to collect support arrearages accrued under an existing order for support, or to seek reimbursement of public assistance provided by the state pursuant to Part IV of the federal Social Security Act.  2. For purposes of this section, "public assistance" means any income support benefit, including, but not limited to, money, institutional care, or shelter, except temporary shelter. Public assistance includes programs under the federal Social Security Act including, but not limited to, Part IV-A, as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Public assistance shall not include:  (1) A noncash benefit; or  (2) A short term benefit. ­­-------- (L. 1997 S.B. 361, A.L. 2009 H.B. 481)
MO Rev Stat § 208.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.060 - Applications for benefits, how and where filed.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   208.060. Applications for benefits, how and where filed. — Application for any benefits under any law of this state administered by the family support division acting as a state agency shall be filed in the county office. Application for aid to dependent children shall be made by the person with whom the child will live while receiving aid. All applications shall be in writing, or reduced to writing, upon blank forms furnished by the family support division, and shall contain such information as may be required by the family support division or by any federal authority under the Social Security law and amendments thereto. The term "benefits" as used herein or in this law shall be construed to mean:  (1) Aid to dependent children;  (2) Aid or public relief to individuals in cases of public calamity;  (3) Money or services available for child welfare services;  (4) Any other grant, aid, pension or assistance administered by the family support division. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9409, A.L. 1973 S.B. 325, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 208.065 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.065 - Verification of eligibility for public assistance, contract for.

Effective - 28 Aug 2016   208.065. Verification of eligibility for public assistance, contract for. — 1. No later than January 1, 2017, the department of social services shall procure and enter into a competitively bid contract with a contractor to provide verification of initial and ongoing eligibility data for assistance under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP); temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program; child care assistance program; and MO HealthNet program. The contractor shall conduct data matches using the name, date of birth, address, and Social Security number of each applicant and recipient, and additional data provided by the applicant or recipient relevant to eligibility against public records and other data sources to verify eligibility data.  2. The contractor shall evaluate the income, resources, and assets of each applicant and recipient no less than quarterly. In addition to quarterly eligibility data verification, the contractor shall identify on a monthly basis any program participants who have died, moved out of state, or have been incarcerated longer than ninety days.  3. The contractor, upon completing an eligibility data verification of an applicant or recipient, shall notify the department of the results; except that, the contractor shall not verify the eligibility data of persons residing in long-term care facilities or persons receiving home- and community-based services whose income and resources were at or below the applicable financial eligibility standards at the time of their last review. Within twenty business days of such notification, the department shall make an eligibility determination. The department shall retain final authority over eligibility determinations. The contractor shall keep a record of all eligibility data verifications communicated to the department. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect any obligation or requirement under state or federal law or regulation that the department verify the eligibility data of persons residing in long-term care facilities or persons receiving home- and community-based services.  4. Within thirty days of the end of each calendar year, the department and contractor shall file a joint report to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president pro tempore of the senate. The report shall include, but shall not be limited to, the number of applicants and recipients determined ineligible for assistance programs based on the eligibility data verification by the contractor and the stated reasons for the determination of ineligibility by the department. ­­-------- (L. 2016 S.B. 607)
MO Rev Stat § 208.067 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.067 - TANF set-aside minimums for certain programs.

Effective - 28 Aug 2015   *208.067. TANF set-aside minimums for certain programs. — 1. Of the moneys received by the state under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant during each fiscal year, the department of social services shall, consistent with federal law and subject to appropriation, set aside a minimum of:  (1) Two percent of such moneys to fund the alternatives to abortion services program under section 188.325 and the alternatives to abortion public awareness program under section 188.335. The department shall give preference to contracting with not-for-profit entities that promote one or more of the four purposes established by Congress under 42 U.S.C. Section 601 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996; and  (2) Two percent of such moneys to fund healthy marriage promotion activities and activities promoting responsible fatherhood, as defined in 42 U.S.C. Section 603 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. The department shall give preference to contracting with not-for-profit entities that promote one or more of the four purposes established by Congress under 42 U.S.C. Section 601 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.  2. It is the intent of the general assembly that funding authorized under this section shall be used to supplement, not supplant, other sources of revenue heretofore or hereafter used for the purposes of this section. ­­-------- (L. 2015 S.B. 24)  *S.B. 24 was vetoed 4-30-15. The veto was overridden on 5-05-15.
MO Rev Stat § 208.071 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.071 - Individualized assessment of applicant — rulemaking authority.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   208.071. Individualized assessment of applicant — rulemaking authority. — 1. The department shall make an individualized assessment of the skills, prior work experience, and employability of each recipient of assistance under the program who:  (1) Has attained eighteen years of age; or  (2) Has not completed high school or obtained a certificate of high school equivalency, and is not attending secondary school.  2. No participant may be assigned to any education, training or employment component of the state's welfare-to-work programs prior to an individualized assessment. The assessment shall be consistent with the criteria listed in section 208.325.  3. The division may promulgate rules and regulations that are reasonable and necessary to accomplish the limited duties specifically provided by this section. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536. ­­-------- (L. 1999 S.B. 387, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 208.072 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.072 - Application for medical assistance, approval or denial, when — Medicaid payments to long-term care facilities, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   208.072. Application for medical assistance, approval or denial, when — Medicaid payments to long-term care facilities, when. — 1. A completed application for medical assistance for services described in section 208.152 shall be approved or denied within thirty days from submission to the family support division or its successor.  2. The MO HealthNet division shall remit to a licensed nursing home operator the Medicaid payment for a newly admitted Medicaid resident in a licensed long-term care facility within forty-five days of the resident's date of admission. ­­-------- (L. 2001 H.B. 328 & 88 § 1, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 208.075 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.075 - Mental or physical examination may be required — evidence admissible at appeal hearing.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   208.075. Mental or physical examination may be required — evidence admissible at appeal hearing. — 1. When an application is made for aid to dependent children or aid to the permanently and totally disabled benefits because of the physical or mental condition of a person the family support division shall require the person to be examined by competent medical or other appropriate authority designated by the family support division. If benefits are paid because of the physical or mental condition of a person the family support division may, as often as it deems necessary, require such person to be reexamined by competent medical or other appropriate authority designated by the family support division. Written reports of examinations and reexaminations shall be required and evaluated by the family support division in determining eligibility to receive benefits or to continue to receive benefits.  2. In any appeal hearing as provided for by section 208.080 and the question at issue involves the physical or mental incapacity of a person, regardless of whether assistance has been denied or a recipient has been removed from the assistance rolls, the written reports of the examination or reexamination made by competent medical or other appropriate authority designated by the family support division, and any written medical reports by other physicians or clinics submitted by claimant, are hereby declared to be competent evidence and admissible as such at the appeal hearing to be considered by the director with any other evidence submitted. Any written medical report purporting to be executed and signed by the medical or other appropriate authority, its agents, or employees shall be prima facie evidence of it being properly executed and signed without further proof of identification. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 380 § 208.052, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 208.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.090 - Reinstatement and payment of benefits to applicant.

Effective - 28 Aug 1981   208.090. Reinstatement and payment of benefits to applicant. — If an application has been denied or if a recipient's benefits or services have been terminated or modified and the applicant or the recipient is found by the director upon the hearing of his appeal to be or to have been eligible, payment of benefits and providing of services shall be made only for those months during which the applicant or recipient was actually eligible and, if currently eligible, the applicant or recipient shall be placed on the rolls, reinstated on the rolls, or restored to the level of benefits and services for which he is eligible. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9411, A. 1949 S.B. 1063, A.L. 1951 p. 772, A.L. 1969 H.B. 804, A.L. 1981 S.B. 73)
MO Rev Stat § 208.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.100 - Appeal to circuit court — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   208.100. Appeal to circuit court — procedure. — 1. Any claimant aggrieved by the decision of the director of the family support division, children's division, or MO HealthNet division made under section 208.080 may appeal to the circuit court of the county in which such claimant resides within ninety days from the date of the action and decision appealed from.  2. The appropriate division shall furnish the claimant, upon request, with proper form of affidavit for appeal from the director of the appropriate division to the circuit court.  3. Upon the affidavit for appeal, duly executed by the claimant before an officer authorized to administer oaths, being filed with the appropriate division within ninety days from the date of the decision of the director of the appropriate division the entire record preserved in the case at the time of the claimant's hearing, together with the hearing decision and the affidavit for appeal, shall be certified by the director of the appropriate division to the circuit court and the case shall be docketed as other civil cases except that neither party shall be required to give bond or deposit any money for docket fee on appeal to the circuit court.  4. Such appeal shall be tried in the circuit court upon the record of the proceedings had before and certified by the director of the appropriate division, which shall in such case be certified and included in the return of said director to the court.  5. Upon the record so certified by the director of the appropriate division, the circuit court shall review the action and decision of the director in accordance with the provisions of section 536.140; and the court shall render judgment affirming, reversing, or modifying the director's decision, and may order the reconsideration of the case in the light of the court's opinion and judgment, and may order the director to take such further action as it may be proper to require. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9411, A. 1949 S.B. 1063, A.L. 1981 S.B. 73, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 208.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.110 - Appeals from circuit court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   208.110. Appeals from circuit court. — Appeals may be had by either party from the circuit court upon the record in the same manner as provided herein for appeals from the director to the circuit court, and all appeals to the circuit and appellate courts shall be advanced on the docket of the courts for immediate hearing and determination. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9411, A. 1949 S.B. 1063)  (1961) Finding that recipient of old age assistance had conveyed property to her children without receiving in return a value equal to the property conveyed held not supported by substantial evidence. Weidmaier v. State Department of Public Health and Welfare (A.), 343 S.W.2d 93. (1962) Where referee, in the course of a hearing on an application for aid to dependent children based on the ground that the father of the child was unable to work, stated that the father appeared to be able to work and also that he appeared to be a normal person, the applicant for benefits did not receive a fair hearing and the decision of the division would be reversed. Jones v. State Department of Public Health and Welfare (A.), 354 S.W.2d 37. (1962) It was error, on appeal from decision of director of welfare, for trial court to permit judgment of circuit court setting aside deed to be introduced in evidence at hearing and made a part of the transcript on appeal. Powers v. State Department of Public Health and Welfare (A.), 359 S.W.2d 23. (1971) Appeals taken pursuant to § 208.110 are subject to the Rules of Civil Procedure including the requirement that the Department of Public Health and Welfare shall cause a transcript on appeal to be prepared, filed, served and approved in the form and manner specified by Civil Rule 82.14. Stacy v. Department of Public Health and Welfare (A.), 468 S.W.2d 651. (1972) Adding of affidavit is a permissible amendment to the original notice of appeal and relates back to the filing of the original notice. Fraher v. Department of Public Health and Welfare (A.), 484 S.W.2d 663.
MO Rev Stat § 208.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.120 - Records, when evidence, restrictions on disclosure — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   208.120. Records, when evidence, restrictions on disclosure — penalty. — 1. For the protection of applicants and recipients, all officers and employees of the state of Missouri are prohibited, except as hereinafter provided, from disclosing any information obtained by them in the discharge of their official duties relative to the identity of applicants for or recipients of benefits or the contents of any records, files, papers, and communications, except in proceedings or investigations where the eligibility of an applicant to receive benefits, or the amount received or to be received by any recipient, is called into question, or for the purposes directly connected with the administration of public assistance. In any judicial proceedings, except such proceedings as are directly concerned with the administration of these programs, such information obtained in the discharge of official duties relative to the identity of applicants for or recipients of benefits, and records, files, papers, communications and their contents shall be confidential and not admissible in evidence.  2. The family support division shall in each county welfare office maintain monthly a report showing the name and address of all recipients certified by such county welfare office to receive public assistance benefits, together with the amount paid to each recipient during the preceding month, and each such report and information contained therein shall be open to public inspection at all times during the regular office hours of the county welfare office; provided, however, that all information regarding applicants or recipients other than names, addresses and amounts of grants shall be considered as confidential.  3. It shall be unlawful for any person, association, firm, corporation or other agency to solicit, disclose, receive, make use of or authorize, knowingly permit, participate in or acquiesce in the use of any name or lists of names for commercial or political purposes of any nature; or for any name or list of names of recipients secured from such report in the county welfare office to be published in any manner. Anyone willfully or knowingly violating any provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. If the violation is by other than an individual, the penalty may be adjudged against any officer, agent, employee, servant or other person of the association, firm, corporation or other agency who committed or participated in such violation and is found guilty thereof. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 646 § 9414a, A.L. 1951 p. 754, A.L. 1953 p. 636, A.L. 1973 S.B. 325, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 208.125 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.125 - Records may be destroyed, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   208.125. Records may be destroyed, when. — The director of the family support division is authorized to destroy all applications and records compiled by the family support division in connection with the investigation and payment of public assistance or blind pensions after five years have elapsed since the closing of a case or the rejection of an application. ­­-------- (L. 1951 p. 755, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 208.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.130 - Benefits granted may be reconsidered.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   208.130. Benefits granted may be reconsidered. — All benefits granted may be reconsidered by the director of the department of social services or the appropriate division as frequently as he or she may deem necessary. After such further investigation the amount of a benefit may be changed or entirely withdrawn. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9412, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 208.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief|Section 208.140 - Grants subject to any change of law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   208.140. Grants subject to any change of law. — Every grant, aid, pension or assistance under the provisions of this law shall be deemed to be granted and shall be held subject to the provisions of any amendment or repealing law that may hereafter be passed, and no recipient under this law shall have any claim for compensation or otherwise by reason of his assistance being changed, affected, or discontinued by such amending or repealing law or laws. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9418)