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NH Rev Stat § 161-C:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:18 - Adjustment of Debt Payment.

    161-C:18 Adjustment of Debt Payment. –||The commissioner may at any time consistent with the income, earning capacity and resources of the debtor, set or reset a level and schedule of payments to be paid upon the debt.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:19 - Failure to Comply With Order or Lien.

    161-C:19 Failure to Comply With Order or Lien. –||Any person who fails to answer within the time prescribed or fails to deliver property pursuant to an order to withhold and deliver or after actual notice of filing of a support lien fails to pay over, release, sell, transfer, or convey real or personal property subject to a support lien to or for the benefit of the responsible parent or any other person; or fails to surrender property under RSA 161-C:13, or fails to honor an assignment of wages presented by the commissioner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:20 - Employee Protected.

    161-C:20 Employee Protected. –||No employer may discharge an employee because any support lien or order to withhold and deliver has been served against the employee's earnings.|||Source. 1977, 589:1, eff. July 1, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:21 - Assignment of Earnings.

    161-C:21 Assignment of Earnings. –||I. Any person employing a person owing a support debt shall honor a duly executed assignment of earnings presented by the commissioner. This requirement to honor the assignment of earnings itself shall be applicable whether the earnings are to be paid presently or in the future and shall continue in force until released in writing by the commissioner. Payment pursuant to an assignment of earnings presented by the commissioner shall serve as full acquittance under any contract of employment, and the state warrants that it shall defend and hold harmless any person who honors the assignment of earnings for claims arising from the action taken in honoring the assignment. The commissioner shall not be liable for improper receipt of monies under an assignment of earnings upon return of any monies so received.||II. No employee shall be discharged by reason of any presentation of an assignment of earnings.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:22 - Assignment of Right of Support Enforcement.

    161-C:22 Assignment of Right of Support Enforcement. –||I. The receipt of public assistance for a child shall constitute an assignment by the recipient to the department of any and all rights, title, and interest in and to support obligation owed to or for the recipient or, the child or children, or both the recipient and any child or children, up to the amount of public assistance money paid for or on behalf of such child or such children which accrues during the period that the public assistance is provided. Such assignment includes only those arrearages which accrue during the period that the public assistance is provided to the family.||II. The recipient shall also be deemed, without the necessity of signing any document, to have appointed the commissioner as his or her attorney in fact to perform the specific act of endorsing over to the department for the support of any dependent child, any and all drafts, checks, money orders or other negotiable instruments.||III. When an assignment of support rights has terminated and the obligor and the recipient reunite, the obligor may request a suspension of the collection of a support debt under RSA 161-C:4 and the office of child support enforcement services shall not take any action to collect such a debt for so long as the family remains reunited, provided that the adjusted gross income of the family, as defined by RSA 458-C, is equal to or less than 185 percent of the federal poverty guidelines as set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. If collection of a support debt under RSA 161-C:4 is suspended, the obligor shall provide the office of child support enforcement services with a financial affidavit every 6 months evidencing the income of the reunited family and shall notify the office of child support enforcement services in writing within 10 days of any change in income or if the family is no longer reunited. Failure to report changes in income or in the status of the family as reunited, or to provide a financial affidavit as specified herein, shall cause the suspension of collection to terminate until such time as the required information is submitted and provided that such information meets the criteria for obtaining a suspension of collection. When a support obligation is established under RSA 161-C:4, the office of child support enforcement services shall notify an obligor of the right to request a suspension of the collection of a support debt.||IV. Any person who has assigned support rights shall be entitled to advance notice from the office of child support enforcement services of any proceeding for the establishment, modification, or enforcement of support and the opportunity to participate in any administrative proceeding for the establishment, modification, or enforcement of support.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1989, 360:7. 1994, 244:1. 1995, 310:175, 183. 2009, 80:1, eff. Oct. 1, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:23 - Interest.

    161-C:23 Interest. –||Interest at the rate specified in RSA 336:1 on any support debt due and owing to the department under RSA 161-C:4 may be collected by the commissioner. No provision of this chapter shall be construed to require the commissioner to maintain interest balance due accounts, and said interest may be waived by the commissioner, if said waiver would facilitate the collection of the debt.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1988, 234:2. 1995, 310:175, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:24 - Distribution of Proceeds.

    161-C:24 Distribution of Proceeds. –||I. Any money realized by the department by proceedings under this chapter shall reduce the debt of a responsible parent under RSA 161-C:4.||II. Any money realized by the department by proceedings under this chapter shall be distributed in accordance with the rules for distribution established by the department.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1985, 331:19. 1995, 310:175, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:25 - Unidentified Funds.

    161-C:25 Unidentified Funds. –||All fees, costs, attorney fees, interest payments and funds received by the commissioner, unidentifiable as to the support account against which they should be credited, shall be held in an administrative expense account from which the commissioner may make disbursement for any expenses incurred in the administration of this chapter.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:26 - Charging Off Uncollected Funds.

    161-C:26 Charging Off Uncollected Funds. –||Any support debt due the department from a responsible parent which the commissioner deems uncollectible may be transferred from accounts receivable to a suspense account and cease to be accounted as an asset; provided, that at any time after 6 years from the date a support debt was incurred, the commissioner may charge off as uncollectible any support debt upon which the commissioner finds there is no available, practical, or lawful means by which said debt may be collected; provided further that no proceedings or action under the provisions of this chapter may be begun after expiration of said 6-year period to institute collection of a support debt. Nothing herein shall be construed to render invalid or nonactionable a support lien filed prior to the expiration of said 6-year period or an assignment of earnings or order to withhold and deliver executed prior to the expiration of said 6-year period.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1995, 310:175, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:26-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:26-a - Reporting to Credit Agencies.

    161-C:26-a Reporting to Credit Agencies. –||I. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 359-C or any other law to the contrary, any obligor who owes child support arrearages payable to or through the department shall be deemed to have authorized disclosure of such obligor's financial records to consumer reporting agencies by the department.||I-a. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 359-C or any other law to the contrary, the department shall report to a consumer reporting agency or agencies any obligor who accumulates an arrearage in an amount greater than the legal order of support owed for 60 days payable to or through the department, unless:||(a) A legal order of support is being adhered to by the obligor;||(b) The obligor's wages are assigned pursuant to RSA 458-B and the wage assignment, pursuant to a court order or pursuant to RSA 458-B:4, addresses arrearages;||(c) The department determines that reporting would cause the obligor hardship in obtaining employment;||(d) A motion to modify is pending which could reduce the arrearage to an amount less than the legal order of support owed for 60 days; or||(e) The department determines that there is good cause not to report the obligor.||II. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any obligor who owes child support arrearage payable to or through the department shall be deemed to have authorized disclosure of such obligor's financial records to the department of health and human services by consumer reporting agencies.||III. The department shall give prior notice to the obligor that such financial disclosure is authorized and of the procedures through which the obligor may contest such financial disclosure. If the obligor contests the financial disclosure pursuant to this section, the department shall provide written findings prior to reporting such obligor.||IV. The department and any consumer reporting agency which discloses financial records under this section shall not be subject to civil liability or criminal prosecution which is based upon its disclosure under this section.|||Source. 1985, 331:20. 1992, 119:2, 3. 1995, 310:175, 181. 1996, 297:8, 9, eff. June 10, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:26-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:26-b - Denial of Passports.

    161-C:26-b Denial of Passports. –||I. The department is authorized to certify to the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, pursuant to section 652(k) of the Social Security Act, that an obligor owes child support arrearages in the amount specified by the federal law and is out of compliance with a legal order of support.||II. The obligor shall be given prior notice of the determination and of the consequences and an opportunity to contest the determination.|||Source. 1997, 263:18. 2007, 34:1, eff. July 13, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:26-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:26-c - Hiring Reports.

    161-C:26-c Hiring Reports. –||The department shall be authorized to receive from the state directory of new hires maintained by the department of employment security pursuant to RSA 282-A:117-a, I, reports made by an employing unit of the hire, rehire, or contracting of services of any named individual whom the department seeks to locate for purposes of establishing paternity and establishing, modifying, and enforcing child support obligations.|||Source. 1997, 263:18, eff. Aug. 18, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:27 - Judicial Review.

    161-C:27 Judicial Review. –||Any person who is aggrieved by any action of the commissioner relative to the administrative process under this chapter may appeal to the superior court within 30 days of the receipt of the decision of a hearings officer. Such appeal shall be restricted to a review of the record. Upon review of the record, the court in its discretion may request the submission of additional evidence and order a hearing on the additional evidence.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1985, 331:21. 1989, 360:8. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:28 - Rulemaking.

    161-C:28 Rulemaking. –||The commissioner is hereby authorized, subject to RSA 541-A, to adopt such rules not inconsistent with this chapter as may be necessary to the efficient administration of the functions with which the commissioner is charged under this chapter.|||Source. 1977, 589:1. 1983, 242:4. 1995, 310:183. 1996, 297:10, eff. June 10, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-C:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-C - Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children|Section 161-C:29 - Separability of Provisions.

    161-C:29 Separability of Provisions. –||If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid the remainder of the chapter, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.|||Source. 1977, 589:1, eff. July 1, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-E:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-E - Personal Care for the Severely Physically Disabled|Section 161-E:1 - Definitions.

    161-E:1 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Department" shall mean the department of health and human services.||II. "Personal care attendant" shall mean a qualified non-family member whether or not that person is a professional or paraprofessional and who, in accordance with a plan of care prescribed by a physician and developed in conjunction with and reviewed by a registered nurse, assists severely physically disabled persons to maintain themselves in their homes and gain greater control over their own lives by providing medically oriented long-term maintenance and supportive care.||III. "Severely physically disabled person" shall mean an adult individual over the age of 18 who has been approved to participate in an independent living program and who requires a minimum of 2 hours of medically necessary personal care per day in order to maintain himself or herself in a noninstitutional setting. Such care may include assistance in the following areas: basic personal care and grooming, assistance with bladder and bowel care, assistance with medications, assistance with nutrition including meal preparation and essential household services.|||Source. 1979, 275:1. 1983, 291:1. 1991, 32:1. 1995, 310:28, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. 2016, 306:1, eff. Aug. 20, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-E:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-E - Personal Care for the Severely Physically Disabled|Section 161-E:2 - Services Provided.

    161-E:2 Services Provided. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall develop a program under which severely physically disabled persons eligible for coverage under medical assistance programs are provided with personal care attendants to provide medically necessary long-term maintenance and supportive care to assist them, as is required in each individual case, to maintain themselves in their homes and gain greater control over their own lives. Personal care services under this chapter may be delivered in noninstitutional locations in which normal life activities occur.|||Source. 1979, 275:1. 1995, 310:182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. 2016, 306:2, eff. Aug. 20, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-E:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-E - Personal Care for the Severely Physically Disabled|Section 161-E:3 - Federal Funds.

    161-E:3 Federal Funds. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall attempt to obtain such federal funds as are available to provide the services authorized under this chapter. The commissioner shall be authorized to expend such monies as he receives from the federal or state government or any other source for the purposes of this chapter.|||Source. 1979, 275:1. 1995, 310:182, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-F:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-F - Elderly and Adult Services|Section 161-F:1 - Definitions.

    161-F:1 Definitions. –||Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this chapter:||I. "Adult" means any person 18 years of age or older.||II. "Commissioner" means commissioner of health and human services.||III. [Repealed.]||IV. "Department" means the department of health and human services.||V. "Elderly" means a person 60 years of age or older.|||Source. 1989, 7:1. 1995, 310:112, 170, VII, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-F:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-F - Elderly and Adult Services|Section 161-F:2 - Department of Health and Human Services.

    161-F:2 Department of Health and Human Services. –||The department of health and human services established under RSA 126-A:4 shall be responsible for the administration of this chapter.|||Source. 1989, 7:1. 1995, 310:12, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-F:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-F - Elderly and Adult Services|Section 161-F:3 - Repealed by 1995, 310:16, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

    161-F:3 Repealed by 1995, 310:16, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. –|
NH Rev Stat § 161-F:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-F - Elderly and Adult Services|Section 161-F:4 - Rulemaking.

    161-F:4 Rulemaking. –||The commissioner of health and human services may adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to social services for the elderly and adult populations under this chapter.|||Source. 1989, 7:1. 1995, 310:113, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-F:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-F - Elderly and Adult Services|Section 161-F:5 - Federal Funds.

    161-F:5 Federal Funds. –||The department shall be the single state agency responsible to administer in New Hampshire the Older Americans Act of 1965 and subsequent legislation pursuant to that act and to receive all federal funds under Title III of said act. The department is also authorized to receive federal funds other than from the Administration on Aging to administer that act. The state treasurer shall receive and place in an account all federal funds paid to the state under that act, subject to requisition or disbursement by the department as a single state agency. The department is authorized to receive and expend federal funds made available to it.|||Source. 1989, 7:1. 1995, 310:175, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-F:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-F - Elderly and Adult Services|Section 161-F:6 - Administration of State Plan.

    161-F:6 Administration of State Plan. –||The department shall be the sole and final agency designated as the single state agency for administering or supervising the administration of the New Hampshire state plan for implementing the Older Americans Act of 1965, including final decisions as to disposition of Title III project grant funds. The department shall have authority to submit or revise the New Hampshire state plan and shall be the sole state agency responsible for administering the program described in the state plan and shall collect and publish supporting statistics by county on the functional needs of and the services available to the New Hampshire elderly.|||Source. 1989, 7:1. 1995, 310:175, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 161-F:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-F - Elderly and Adult Services|Section 161-F:7 - to 161-F:9 Repealed by 2019, 152:4, eff. July 1, 2019.

    161-F:7 to 161-F:9 Repealed by 2019, 152:4, eff. July 1, 2019. –|
NH Rev Stat § 161-F:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 161-F - Elderly and Adult Services|Section 161-F:10 - Office Established.

    161-F:10 Office Established. –||There is hereby established the office of the long-term care ombudsman to be administratively attached to the department of health and human services under RSA 21-G:10 or administered through contract with an independent non-profit agency under the oversight of the department of health and human services. The office shall be responsible for receiving, identifying, investigating, and resolving complaints or problems made by, or on behalf of, elderly residents of facilities that relate to the health, safety, welfare, and rights of residents. The office shall investigate the administrative acts and omissions of any facility or government agency, as defined in RSA 161-F:11, V and VI and shall represent the interests of residents in the development and implementation of public policy, rules, and laws affecting residents of long-term care facilities.|||Source. 2004, 110:2, eff. July 16, 2004.|