Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 45 - Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › 7 AAC 45.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless the context indicates otherwise,
				in this chapter,
(1) "activity" means one or
				more "work activities," as that term is defined in
				AS
				47.27.900;
(2) "AFDC" means the Aid to Families with
				Dependent Children assistance program formerly administered by the department
				under former AS 47.25.301 - 47.25.420, and includes the JOBS program under
				former AS 47.25.421 - 47.25.429;
(3) "ANCSA" means the Alaska Native Claims
				Settlement Act set out in 43
				U.S.C. 1601 -
				1629 h;
(4) "APA" means the Adult Public Assistance
				program under
				AS
				47.25.430-47.25.615, administered by the
				department, that provides monthly cash assistance to eligible aged, blind, and
				disabled persons in need; for purposes of this chapter, "APA" does not include
				interim assistance under
				AS
				47.25.455;
(5) "applicant" means an individual who has
				signed and submitted an application to the department for ATAP assistance on
				behalf of that individual, a dependent child, or other qualified
				recipient;
(6) "assistance unit"
				means those individuals described in
				7 AAC 45.335;
(7) "ATAP" means the Alaska Temporary
				Assistance Program administered by the department under AS 47.27;
(8) "caretaker relative" means an individual
				who provides the care and control of a dependent child; a "caretaker relative"
				does not include a guardian, friend, neighbor, unrelated godparent, second
				cousin of a dependent child, or an individual who has been given a dependent
				child to take care of; a caretaker relative must be
(A) a biological or legally adoptive relative
				of the dependent child to the fifth degree of consanguinity; a biological
				relative must be of full or half blood; a biological relative may be a
				caretaker relative even though the legal relationship has been
				terminated;
(B) a stepfather,
				stepmother, stepbrother, or stepsister of the dependent child; or
(C) the spouse of an individual described in
				(A) or (B) of this paragraph, even after the marriage is terminated by death or
				divorce;
(9) "child
				support services agency" means the child support services agency of the
				Department of Revenue;
(10)
				"commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Health and Social
				Services;
(11) "countable income"
				means the countable income of an assistance unit as determined under
				7 AAC 45.470(b);
(12) "department" means the Department of
				Health and Social Services;
(13)
				"dependent child" or "dependent children" means the same as in
				AS
				47.27.900;
(14) "director" means the director of the
				division of the department that is responsible for administering ATAP under
				this chapter;
(15) "district
				office" means the office of the department division that is responsible for
				administering ATAP under this chapter;
(16) "domestic violence" has the meaning
				given in AS 18.66.990;
(17) "DVR" means the division of vocational
				rehabilitation, Department of Labor and Workforce Development;
(18) "economic unit" means those persons who
				reside together and whose separate income and resources are considered to be
				available to each other under
				45 C.F.R.
				233.20 and this chapter;
(19) "family" has the meaning given
				"assistance unit" in this section;
(20) "fee agent" means a department-paid
				volunteer who is authorized by the department to conduct a face-to-face
				interview with an applicant and assist an applicant in completing an
				application and related forms;
(21)
				"FSSP" means the family self-sufficiency plan required by
				AS
				47.27.030 and
				7 AAC 45.257;
(22) "GED" means general educational
				development, leading to testing and a diploma, recognized by the Department of
				Education and Early Development;
(23) "home" means the family setting
				maintained, or in the process of being established, as evidenced by assumption
				and continuation of responsibility for day-to-day care of the child by the
				caretaker relative with whom the child is living; a home exists as long as the
				relative exercises responsibility for the care and control of the child, even
				though the child or the caretaker relative is temporarily absent from the
				family setting;
(24) "household"
				means the individuals who reside together under one roof;
(25) "identifiable application" means an
				application described in
				7 AAC 45.150;
(26) "licensed medical or health care
				practitioner" means an individual who is legally authorized to practice a
				medical profession in the state under the licensing provisions and exceptions
				set out in AS 08;
(27) "minor
				parent" means a parent who is an applicant described in
				AS
				47.27.027(a);
(28) "month" means a calendar month unless
				otherwise specified in this chapter;
(29) "motor vehicle" means a motorized
				vehicle used to provide transportation of persons or goods; "motor vehicle"
				includes a car, truck, recreational vehicle, all-terrain vehicle, boat, snow
				machine, airplane, helicopter, superlight or ultralight aircraft, and
				hovercraft; "motor vehicle" does not include a pickup truck shell or camper
				that is designed to be mounted on a car or truck;
(30) "occupation" means work that offers a
				regular source of paid employment;
(31) "parent" means a child's natural or
				legally adoptive father or mother;
(32) "PMB" means prior month budgeting, as
				described in
				7 AAC 45.360;
(33) "provider" means a public or private
				organization or agency that delivers an activity to a participant;
(34) "recipient" means an individual who has
				been found eligible to receive, and is receiving, ATAP benefits;
(35) "resource" means cash, or an asset that
				can be converted to cash, and includes
(A)
				real estate;
(B) cash on hand; cash
				on deposit; and other liquid resources such as a promissory note, stock, bond,
				or security that is readily convertible to cash;
(C) a life insurance policy, burial insurance
				policy, or a prepaid burial contract;
(D) a United States government savings bond
				or treasury note; a municipal or government bond; or a corporate bond, stock,
				or security;
(E) the portion of a
				lump sum payment received by the applicant or recipient, that is treated as a
				resource rather than income under this chapter; a lump sum payment includes a
				large termination paycheck, insurance policy cash-in, and
				inheritance;
(F) a motor vehicle;
				and
(G) all household goods and
				personal effects;
(36)
				"sponsor" means a person who agrees in writing to support an alien as a
				condition of the alien's entry into the United States and the alien is not the
				child of the sponsor or the sponsor's spouse;
(37) "SSI" means the supplemental security
				income program that is administered by the United States Social Security
				Administration and that provides monthly cash assistance to eligible aged,
				blind, and disabled individuals in need;
(38) "stepparent" means a person who is not a
				child's natural or adoptive parent, but who is legally married to a natural or
				adoptive parent of the child;
(39)
				"suitable employment" means employment that complies with
				AS
				23.10.050-23.10.150 (Alaska Wage and Hour
				Act) or produces self-employment income derived from products or services in
				demand within the marketing region;
(40) "TANF" means the federal Temporary
				Assistance for Needy Families;
(41)
				"Title IV-E" means Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, and refers to
				payments made under 42
				U.S.C. 670 -
				673;
(42) "total gross monthly earned income"
				means the total of an individual's gross monthly earned employee income that is
				available to an assistance unit, calculated in accordance with
				7 AAC 45.435, and the gross monthly earned
				self-employment income that is available to an assistance unit, calculated in
				accordance with
				7 AAC 45.445;
(43) "total gross monthly income" means the
				sum of an assistance unit's available total gross monthly earned income and the
				available total monthly unearned income;
(44) "tribal family assistance program" means
				a program, including an Alaska Native family assistance program under ch. 96,
				SLA 2000, that meets the requirements of
				42 U.S.C.
				612 and has been approved for financing
				through a tribal family assistance grant directly from the United States
				Department of Health and Human Services;
(45) "tribal organization" has the meaning
				given in 25 U.S.C.
				450 b;
(46) "UIB" means the unemployment insurance
				benefits program administered by Department of Labor and Workforce Development
				under AS 23.20;
(47) "work
				activities" has the meaning as given in
				AS
				47.27.900;
(48) "WIA" means the Workforce Investment Act
				of 1998  (29 U.S.C.
				2801 -
				2945);
(49) "PASS" means Parents Achieving
				Self-Sufficiency;
(50)
				"self-sufficiency services" has the meaning given in
				AS
				47.27.900.