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AR Code § 20-76-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 3 - Social Security Disability Determination|§ 20-76-304. Validation of contracts between State of Arkansas and United States

 (a) Any executory contract or agreement, or applicable part thereof, entered into by and between this state, or any officer or agency thereof, and the United States, or any officer or agency thereof, in relation to the subject matter of this subchapter is validated, ratified, and confirmed in all respects. However, on and after October 10, 1961, the State Department for Social Security Administration Disability Determination shall be substituted for the state agency named in any contract or agreement in relation to the subject matter of this subchapter.  (b) However, nothing contained in this section shall be construed as an abridgement of the right of the department, or of the Director of the State Department for Social Security Administration Disability Determination, to enter into a new agreement to succeed to any executory contract or agreement in relation to the subject matter of this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-76-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 3 - Social Security Disability Determination|§ 20-76-305. Federal Disability Determination Fund — Creation

 There is created and established in the State Treasury a fund to be designated and known as the “Federal Disability Determination Fund”, and all moneys received for these purposes shall be deposited into the fund.
AR Code § 20-76-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 3 - Social Security Disability Determination|§ 20-76-306. Use of subpoenas in hearings on benefit determinations

 (a) The Director of the State Department for Social Security Administration Disability Determination or the counsel for the State Department for Social Security Administration Disability Determination is authorized to require the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, records, or other documents through the issuance of subpoenas when the testimony or information is necessary to adequately present the position of the State Department for Social Security Administration Disability Determination when making fair hearing determinations or conducting investigations relating to public assistance benefits.  (b) Subpoenas issued pursuant to the authority of the director shall be substantially in the following form:    “The State of Arkansas to the Sheriff of County: You are commanded to subpoena (name), (address) to appear at on (date) at (time), and testify and/or produce the following documents, to wit: in a matter of (style of proceeding). WITNESS my hand on (date). (Signature of director or agency counsel)”.   Click to view form.
AR Code § 20-76-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-401. Eligibility generally — Transitional Employment Assistance Program

 (a)  (1) The Transitional Employment Assistance Program is created.  (2)  (A) The Transitional Employment Assistance Program shall be administered by the Department of Human Services and the Division of Workforce Services.  (B) Subject to the order of the Governor, the division may take full authority for administering the Transitional Employment Assistance Program.  (C) The division may contract with the department for administrative services.    (3) The division may operate a separate Transitional Employment Assistance Program Two-Parent Program funded by state funds not claimed for the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program maintenance of effort requirement if the Director of the Division of Workforce Services deems such action necessary to avoid the risk of not meeting the two-parent work participation rate.    (b) Eligibility for transitional employment assistance is limited to applicants for or recipients of assistance who:  (1) Are income and resource eligible; and  (2) Sign and comply with a personal responsibility agreement.    (c) The department shall promulgate rules to determine resource eligibility and benefit levels for participating families. The rules shall be subject to review and recommendation by the Arkansas Workforce Development Board and shall include, but not be limited to, the following categories of income and resource disregards:  (1) To reward work, earned income from sources other than transitional employment assistance;  (2) A certain percentage of a family's gross monthly income;  (3) The family's homestead;  (4) An operable motor vehicle per family;  (5) Household and personal goods;  (6) Income-producing property;  (7) Moneys deposited into an approved individual development account or approved escrow account for business or career development;  (8) Any other property or resource specified in the transitional employment assistance implementation plan which is determined to be cost efficient to exclude or which must be excluded due to federal or state law; and  (9) Any investment earmarked for retirement or education, such as a retirement plan authorized by section 401(k) or section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it existed on January 1, 2007.    (d) Any person who makes an application for assistance shall have the burden of proving eligibility for the assistance.
AR Code § 20-76-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-403. Application — Fraud

 (a) The application for assistance shall contain a statement of the amount of both real and personal property in which the applicant has an interest and of all earned and unearned income which he or she may have at the time of the filing of the application and such other information as may be required by the Department of Human Services.  (b) Any assistance improperly paid shall be recoverable by the state as a debt due the state and, if applicable, the recipient shall be prosecuted under theft of public benefits, § 5-36-202.  (c)  (1) All assistance provided under this chapter shall be reconsidered by the department as frequently as the department deems necessary. The amount of assistance may be entirely withdrawn by the department if the department is advised that the recipient's circumstances have altered sufficiently to warrant such action.  (2) Whoever shall withhold information in a periodic reconsideration that may result in a recipient's assistance being changed or withdrawn shall be guilty of fraud. Any money paid after information has been withheld shall be recoverable as a debt due the state.    (d) The department shall forthwith close any recipient's open case upon a judicial or administrative determination that the individual recipient has committed fraud in order to receive transitional employment assistance benefits. The case shall remain closed and the recipient shall remain ineligible until all indebtedness to the department is repaid with interest.
AR Code § 20-76-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-405. Diversion from assistance

 (a) When an applicant applies for employment assistance, the Department of Human Services shall determine whether the applicant is eligible to be diverted from receiving employment assistance. That determination shall be based on an assessment conducted in conformity with rules promulgated by the department.  (b) The department shall determine eligibility for diversion from assistance by considering whether but for the diversion from assistance the applicant would receive employment assistance. If the department determines that the applicant is eligible for diversion from assistance and the recipient agrees to the diversion, the department may provide a single loan payment of up to the amount of financial assistance that the applicant could receive during three (3) months if not diverted.  (c) An applicant may receive diversion loan assistance only one (1) time. Receipt of diversion loan assistance shall be accompanied by a written declaration by the recipient electing to forego transitional employment assistance financial assistance for one hundred (100) days as a condition of receiving the diversion loan assistance.  (d) A diversion from assistance is in lieu of other services described in this chapter.
AR Code § 20-76-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-407. Micro-lending program and individual development accounts

 (a)  (1) In accordance with their personal responsibility agreement, low-income entrepreneurs may escrow profits from their business enterprises which are not reinvested into their businesses into an account which will be placed in a micro-lending program and not be counted against their public assistance benefits until they accumulate an amount to be determined by the Department of Human Services for the period that they are eligible for the Transitional Employment Assistance Program. Under this section, participating low-income entrepreneurs who are otherwise eligible for transitional employment assistance shall not have their benefits reduced and shall not lose any transitional or extended support services available to them as program recipients for the life of the escrow account.  (2) The department will make available a micro-lending program to low-income entrepreneurs. For the purpose of this section, a “low-income entrepreneur” is one who is starting or expanding a business and who meets the eligibility criteria established by the department for the micro-lending program. A “micro-lending program” is one which provides training, technical assistance, and loan funds to low-income entrepreneurs to start or expand a business venture.  (3) Under this section, self-employment shall be considered an allowable work activity. To receive the self-employment exemption outlined in this section, low-income entrepreneurs shall be enrolled in the program and shall be enrolled in a micro-lending program providing entrepeneurship training, technical assistance, and peer support.    (b) The department shall establish an individual development account demonstration project.  (c) Federal funds received by the state pursuant to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program shall be available for programs under this section.
AR Code § 20-76-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-408. Appeal to Department of Human Services

 If an application for assistance is denied in whole or in part, the applicant or recipient may appeal to the Department of Human Services in the manner and form prescribed by the department. The department shall, upon receipt of the appeal, give the applicant or recipient a reasonable notice of opportunity for a fair hearing pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
AR Code § 20-76-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-409. Opt out

 The State of Arkansas opts out of Section 115 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-193.
AR Code § 20-76-412 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-412. Abandonment — Duties of Department of Human Services

 Whenever any person makes an application for Transitional Employment Assistance Program benefits from the Department of Human Services and the application reveals that the applicant or child or children was or were put in such needy circumstances as to require public assistance by reason of the fact that the spouse or child or the illegitimate child was deserted or abandoned or left in destitute or necessitant circumstances by willful neglect or refusal to provide for the support or maintenance of the spouse or child by the child's parents, then it shall be the duty of the department to refer that applicant or child or children to the Office of Child Support Enforcement, to attempt to establish the paternity of the child or children, if necessary, and secure support therefor from any person who might owe the child or children a duty of support.
AR Code § 20-76-418 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-418. Foster care — Reduction in long-term care

 (a) It shall be the goal of the State of Arkansas to reduce the number of children who will remain in the Foster Care Program of Title IV-E of the Social Security Act under the appropriate division of the Department of Human Services.  (b) The maximum number of children that can remain in care over twenty-four (24) months cannot exceed fifty-five percent (55%) of all children in the Title IV-E foster care system.  (c) Each fiscal year, it shall be the goal of the State of Arkansas to reduce the maximum number of children in the state who will remain in the Title IV-E foster care system after having been in the care over twenty-four (24) months by three percent (3%) each year.  (d) The appropriate division of the department is directed to develop appropriate plans which describe how the above goals will be achieved.
AR Code § 20-76-420 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-420. Blind persons — Choice of eye care

 (a) No state official, employee of the Department of Human Services, or official or employee of any county office engaged directly or indirectly in the administration of this act shall preclude, or assist in precluding, any individual from obtaining services for which payment may be made under this act from any ophthalmologist or optometrist licensed to render such services in this state and actively engaged in the practice of their respective professions and shall not, under any circumstances, in informing a person requiring vision care, or for a correction of any vision or muscular anomaly, either directly or indirectly, refer that person to any particular ophthalmologist or optometrist but shall merely advise the person of the need for professional services.  (b) Nothing in this act shall be construed as precluding any individual from obtaining services for which payment may be made under this act from any ophthalmologist or optometrist duly licensed to render the services in this state and actively engaged in the practice of their respective professions.
AR Code § 20-76-421 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-421. Aged and blind persons generally

 (a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services is authorized to provide assistance grants to needy aged persons, as authorized in § 20-76-424 [repealed], and assistance grants to needy blind persons, as authorized in § 20-76-419, of up to one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125) per month in keeping with the federal Social Security Act, and as state funds therefor are available.  (b) It is the intent of this section to be cumulative to the public welfare laws of this state.
AR Code § 20-76-423 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-423. Aged, blind, and disabled — Supplemental Security Income — Legislative intent

 It was the intent of the Sixty-Ninth General Assembly that on January 1, 1974, and thereafter, the State of Arkansas should provide supplemental payments to its citizens participating in the new supplemental security income program in the amount of mandatory minimum supplements as outlined in Pub. L. No. 92-603 and further explained in the written agreement between the Department of Human Services and the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
AR Code § 20-76-429 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-429. Receipt of additional property or income by assistance recipient

 (a) If at any time during the continuance of assistance the recipient thereof becomes possessed of any property or income in excess of the amount stated in the application for assistance, it shall be the duty of the recipient immediately to notify the county office of the receipt or possession of the property or income. The Department of Human Services may either cancel the assistance or alter the amount thereof in accordance with the circumstances.  (b) Any assistance paid after the recipient has come into the possession of the property or income and in excess of his or her need shall be recoverable by the state as a debt due the state.
AR Code § 20-76-431 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-431. Transfer of property prohibited

 (a) No person shall, at any time during the continuance of assistance, grant, sell, transfer title, or in any way dispose of any real property without the consent of the appropriate division of the Department of Human Services. If a recipient of assistance executes and delivers a deed to real property without the consent of the division, the transaction shall be deemed prima facie fraudulent as to the division.  (b) To overcome the presumption of fraud, an immediate investigation will be made to determine whether the property was transferred within the rules of the division. The fair market value of the transferred property shall be considered as available toward meeting the needs of the recipient.
AR Code § 20-76-432 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-432. Removal to another county

 (a) Any recipient of assistance who is moved, moves, or is taken to another county in this state shall be required to notify the appropriate division of the Department of Human Services of the removal and may, if otherwise eligible, receive assistance in the county to which he or she has moved.  (b) The office of the county from which he or she has moved shall transfer all necessary records relating to the recipient to the office of the county to which he or she has moved.
AR Code § 20-76-433 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-433. Records — Confidentiality

 (a)  (1)  (A) Records identifying persons participating in programs administered by the Department of Human Services may be disclosed only as expressly authorized by law or regulation creating or implementing the programs.  (B) The rulemaking power of the Department of Human Services shall include the power to establish and enforce reasonable rules governing the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, files, and departmental communications.    (2)  (A)  (i) The various executive departments and agencies of the state shall exchange information as necessary for each department and agency to accomplish objectives and fulfill obligations created or imposed by federal or state law.  (ii) The various executive departments and agencies of the state shall execute operating agreements to facilitate the exchanges of information authorized by this chapter.    (B) Information received pursuant to this chapter shall be maintained by persons with a business need to access the information and shall be further disclosed only in accordance with any confidentiality provisions applicable to the department or agency originating the information.      (b) Except for purposes directly connected with the administration of public assistance and in accordance with the rules of the Department of Human Services, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to solicit, disclose, receive, make use of, authorize, knowingly permit, participate in, or acquiesce in the use of any list of or names of or any information concerning persons applying for or receiving assistance directly or indirectly derived from the records, papers, files, or communications of the Department of Human Services or acquired in the course of the performance of official duties.  (c) Any person violating the provisions of this section or any rules promulgated under the power hereof shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) or confined in the county jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days or shall be subjected to both a fine and jail sentence.
AR Code § 20-76-434 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-434. Maintenance of list of recipients

 (a) In order to ensure that the needy citizens of the State of Arkansas are receiving all benefits to which they may be entitled, the Department of Human Services shall maintain a list of all recipients of state assistance reflecting each recipient's income, Social Security number, and the programs in which the recipient is participating.  (b) The information required for the list shall be obtained from the recipient's records and such other sources necessary to ensure accuracy and completeness.  (c) The recipient shall be provided a release form to sign in order to obtain the required information. Failure to sign the release form shall result in termination of the recipient from the program of assistance until a review can be made of the eligibility of the recipient by the department from public records.
AR Code § 20-76-435 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally|Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance|§ 20-76-435. No entitlement to assistance

 (a) This chapter shall not be interpreted to entitle any individual or family to assistance under any program created, implemented, or funded under or pursuant to this chapter.  (b) All assistance provided under this chapter shall be subject to the provisions of any amending or repealing act that may hereafter be passed, and no recipient shall have any claim for compensation or otherwise by reason of his or her assistance being affected in any way by any amending or repealing act.