Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 10 - GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Subpart A - APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS › Section 10.120 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"AABD" or "Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled" - Financial
				  assistance and medical assistance available to individuals who have been
				  determined to be aged, blind or disabled as defined by the Social Security
				  Administration.
"Adequate Consideration" - The receipt of goods, monies or
				  services at least in the amount of the fair market value of the property
				  sold.
"Adult Cases" - A case in which no child is included in the
				  assistance unit.
"Adverse Action" - Any action that reduces SNAP benefits or
				  terminates participation in SNAP within a certification period.
"Agency Error" - An action or inaction of the Department
				  resulting in assistance benefits being furnished to or in behalf of a client
				  for which the client is not eligible.
"Applicant" - An individual requesting assistance by
				  completion of a signed, written application form or a person in whose behalf a
				  signed written application form requesting assistance is completed.
"Application" - A request for assistance by means of a
				  completed, signed designated form. For SNAP purposes, only a name, address and
				  signature are needed on the form.
"Assistance Unit" - The individual or individuals living
				  together for whom the Department determines eligibility and, if eligible,
				  provides financial and/or medical assistance as one unit.
"Beneficiary" - Any person nominated in a will to receive an
				  interest in property other than in a fiduciary capacity.
"Caretaker Relative" or "Specified Relative" - A relative, as
				  specified in this definition, with whom a child must live to be eligible for
				  TANF and who is providing care, supervision and a home for the child.
Blood or adoptive relatives within the fifth degree of
				  kinship:
Father - Mother
Brother - Sister
Grandmother - Grandfather (including up to
				  great-great-great)
Uncle - Aunt (including up to great-great)
Nephew - Niece (including up to great-great)
First Cousin
First Cousin once removed (child of first cousin)
Second Cousin (child of great-aunt/uncle)
Step-Relatives:
Step-Father - Step-Mother
Step-Brother - Step-Sister
Person who is or has been married to one of the above
				  relatives.
"Categorical Assistance Programs" - TANF, AABD and related
				  MANG programs.
"Categorically Eligible" - The meeting of all eligibility
				  requirements for a categorical assistance program other than financial
				  need.
"Certification for SNAP" - Authorization of eligibility of a
				  household for SNAP.
"Certification Period" - The period of time for which a
				  household is authorized to participate in SNAP.
"Certifying Office" - The DHS local office or General
				  Assistance unit office responsible for certification of SNAP
				  participants.
"Child and Family Assistance Case" - A General Assistance
				  case in which case eligibility is based on pregnancy or the presence of an
				  eligible child.
"Client" - The adult in the family or unit applying for
				  assistance or receiving assistance on behalf of the family.
"Client Error" - A client's mistake, misunderstanding,
				  misrepresentation or concealment of information or failure to report
				  information promptly that results in financial and/or medical assistance being
				  paid to or in behalf of a recipient for which the recipient is not
				  eligible.
"Correspondent" - A specific individual who has been legally
				  designated to handle the affairs of another individual, that is, parents,
				  court-appointed guardian or conservator.
"DCFS" - Illinois Department of Children and Family
				  Services.
"Department" - The Illinois Department of Human
				  Services.
"Dependent Child" - A child age 18 or under who is living
				  with a relative. If age 18, the child must be a full-time high school (or
				  equivalent) student.
"Disbursing Order" - An invoice voucher form given to a
				  client authorizing a vendor to provide specified goods and/or services.
"Disposition of an Application" - The determination of
				  eligibility or ineligibility.
"Diverted Income" - Earned or unearned income of a parent
				  used to meet the needs of ineligible person or persons, including the parent,
				  their dependent child or children or their spouse.
"DOC" - Illinois Department of Corrections.
"DOL" - Illinois Department of Labor.
"Earmarked Income" - Income restricted for the use of an
				  individual by court order or by legal stipulation of a contributor. Only income
				  of a child may be considered earmarked for Departmental purposes. The income of
				  an eligible child who has siblings in the home receiving TANF financial
				  assistance cannot be earmarked.
"Earned Income" - Pay derived through the receipt of wages or
				  salary for services performed as an employee or profits from activity in which
				  the individual is self-employed.
"Effective Date" - The date for which case action is
				  authorized.
"Enrolled MANG Participant" - Person or unit meeting the
				  nonfinancial factors of eligibility.
"Established 12-Month Period" - The period of 12 calendar
				  months over which income is compared to the applicable MANG standard.
"Estate" - All real and personal property within an
				  individual's estate as provided in Illinois probate law. For a decedent who
				  received benefits under a long term care insurance policy in connection with
				  which assets were disregarded, the term "estate" includes all real and personal
				  property in which the individual had legal title or interest at the time of
				  death (to the extent of such interest), including assets conveyed to a
				  survivor, heir or assignee of the deceased person through joint tenancy,
				  tenancy in common, survivorship, life estate, living trust or other
				  arrangement.
"Expedited Issuance" - Authorization of SNAP benefits after
				  the household has been determined to be destitute or to have zero net
				  income.
"Expedited Service" - An immediate processing of a SNAP
				  application and determination of eligibility for expedited issuance.
"Final Administrative Decision" - A decision made by the
				  Department as a result of an appeal. It either upholds or reverses the appealed
				  action or determines a lack of jurisdiction.
"Financial Assistance" - Public assistance paid in the form
				  of a cash benefit to a recipient for income maintenance needs. Medical
				  assistance and SNAP benefits are not considered financial assistance.
"Financial Factors of Eligibility" - Income, assets and
				  Department levels of assistance.
"Financially Eligible" - The meeting of all financial factors
				  of eligibility.
"Fiscal Month" - Begins on a given day in one calendar month
				  and ends on the day prior to the same given day in the next calendar
				  month.
"FNS" - The Food and Nutrition Service of the United States
				  Department of Agriculture.
"Full-Time Employment" - Employment of 30 hours per week or
				  more.
"GA" or "General Assistance" - Financial and medical
				  assistance available to eligible needy families or individuals who are
				  ineligible to receive assistance through a categorical assistance program. All
				  State funded General Assistance and related medical benefits were eliminated
				  effective July 1, 2012.
"Grant" - The total amount of a monthly financial assistance
				  payment.
"Grant Cases" - Public assistance cases authorized for
				  financial assistance payments to the recipient.
"Head of Household" - The person in whose name application is
				  made for participation in SNAP. This person is normally the individual who is
				  the household's primary source of income.
"Hearing" - The actual presentation and consideration of the
				  issue under appeal before a hearing officer of the Department.
"Heir" - Any person entitled under the statutes to an
				  interest in property of a decedent.
"HFS" - Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family
				  Services, formerly known as the Illinois Department of Public Aid (DPA).
"Initial Prorated Entitlement" or "IPE" - Financial
				  assistance to cover the period from the initial point of eligibility
				  (application for assistance or initial needs of a person being added to the
				  assistance unit) through two days after the mailing date of the first regular
				  monthly assistance warrant.
"In-Kind Income" - Income received by or paid in behalf of an
				  individual in a form other than money.
"Interim Assistance" - Assistance furnished to or in behalf
				  of an individual financed totally from State and/or local funds for basic
				  maintenance needs and furnished during the period beginning with the month in
				  which the individual filed an application for Supplemental Security Income
				  (SSI) and for which the individual was found eligible.
"Local Governmental Unit" - Every county, city, village,
				  incorporated town or township charged with the duty of providing public aid
				  under General Assistance and County Veterans Assistance Commissions providing
				  assistance to indigent war veterans and their families.
"Local Office" - Department of Human Services-Division of
				  Human Capital Development office that serves clients.
"Lump-Sum Payment" - An extraordinary or non-recurring income
				  payment received by a client.
"MAG" or "Medical Assistance Grant" - Medical assistance paid
				  on behalf of a recipient of financial assistance.
"MANG" or "Medical Assistance No Grant" - Medical assistance
				  paid on behalf of a recipient of categorical assistance who is not receiving
				  financial assistance.
"MANG(AABD)" - Medical assistance available to individuals
				  who have sufficient income and assets to meet all maintenance needs other than
				  medical care and who are receiving Supplemental Security Income benefits or who
				  are determined to be aged, blind or disabled by the Department of Human
				  Services.
"MANG(C)" - Medical Assistance to Needy Families with
				  Children, which is available to families with one or more children who would
				  qualify for TANF on the basis of non-financial eligibility factors but have
				  sufficient income and assets to meet all maintenance needs other than medical
				  care.
"Medicaid" - Medical assistance issued by the Department
				  under provisions of Title XIX of the Social Security Act (
				  42 USC
				  1396 ); MAG and MANG.
"Medical Assistance" - Medicaid.
"MediPlan Card" - A document that identifies individuals for
				  whom HFS will pay for essential medical services and supplies.
"Migrant Worker" - Any person residing temporarily in and
				  employed in Illinois who moves seasonally from one place to another for the
				  purpose of employment in agricultural activities, including the planting,
				  raising or harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities and the
				  handling, packing or processing of those commodities on the farm where produced
				  or at the point of first processing.
"OASDI" or "Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance" -
				  Often termed "Social Security".
"OJT" - On-the-job training programs sponsored through the
				  TANF Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Employment and Training Program
				  or WIA.
"Participant" - A person taking part in SNAP or a
				  Departmental employment and training program.
"Recipient" - An individual who receives benefits under an
				  assistance program.
"SNAP" - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly
				  known as the Food Stamp Program. A food and nutrition supplement program
				  available to individuals and families.
"SNAP Benefits" - The cash value of benefits that a SNAP unit
				  receives from the program.
"SNAP Household" or "SNAP Unit" - For purposes of SNAP, a
				  household or unit is defined as any of the following:
An individual living alone;
An individual living with others, who customarily purchases
				  food and prepares meals for home consumption separate and apart from
				  others;
A group of individuals who live together and customarily
				  purchase food and prepare meals together for home consumption or who, because
				  of their relationship, are required to qualify for SNAP as a unit.
"Specified Relative" - Same as caretaker relative.
"Spenddown" - The amount by which a client's nonexempt income
				  during the eligibility period exceeds the MANG income and asset
				  standards.
"SSA" - The Social Security Administration.
"SSI" or "Supplemental Security Income" - A program
				  administered by the Social Security Administration providing monthly aid to
				  aged, blind and disabled individuals.
"Student" - An individual who is enrolled at least half time
				  (as defined by the institution) in any elementary/middle school, high school,
				  vocational school, technical school, training program or institution of higher
				  education. Enrollment in a mail, self-study or correspondence course does not
				  meet the definition of a student.
"Supervision" - Exercising of responsibility for the child's
				  welfare by the caretaker.
"Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Employment and Training
				  Program" - Employment and training program for SNAP recipients.
"TANF" or "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families" -
				  Financial and medical assistance available to families with one or more
				  dependent children.
"Temporary Caretaker" - Another individual temporarily acting
				  as a caretaker (not included in the assistance unit) when no caretaker relative
				  is available.
"UI" - Unemployment Insurance Benefits.
"Unearned Income" - All income other than earned
				  income.
"Vendor Payment" - Direct payment to vendors for items or
				  services provided to clients.
"WIA" - The federal Workforce Investment Act (
				  29 USC
				  2801 et seq.).
"Work Experience" - A Department program that provides
				  experience in a job.