New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 133 - INTERIM ASSISTANCE PROCEDURES MANUAL › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:133-1.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter, have the
				  following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Boarding home" means a building containing two or more units of
				  dwelling space arranged or intended for single room occupancy, exclusive of any such
				  unit occupied by an owner or operator, offering no financial or personal services
				  other than a room, food service, and laundry to two or more residents unrelated to
				  the operator. Such facilities shall be licensed by the State Department of Community
				  Affairs, pursuant to P.L. 1979, c.496 (Rooming House/Boarding House Act of
				  1979).
"Contract agency" means an agency contracted with the Division of
				  Mental Health Services to receive State funds to provide various residential and/or
				  treatment programs.
"Discharge" means legal discharge of a patient from the hospital
				  to which he or she has been confined.
"Discharge Coordinator or equivalent" means the individual
				  responsible for maintaining a housing resource file, providing technical assistance
				  to placement social workers and monitoring the discharge process. This individual
				  may also fulfill the role of Financial Coordinator.
"Discharge Oriented Service Plan" means a document used to
				  coordinate and record all aspects of the discharge planning process.
"Discharge Unit or equivalent" means a discrete placement unit
				  within the State psychiatric hospital responsible for locating housing, linking to
				  aftercare services, and monitoring the adequacy of post-discharge housing and social
				  services.
"DMHS" means the Division of Mental Health Services within the
				  Department of Human Services.
"Drug addiction or alcohol (D.A.A.) case" means a client is
				  disabled because of drug addiction and/or alcoholism.
"Financial Coordinator or designee" means the individual
				  responsible for overseeing the functions of the Financial Entitlement Unit,
				  including the supervision of the Income Maintenance Technician (IMT). This
				  Coordinator is also responsible for monitoring post-discharge financial services.
				  This individual may also fulfill the role of Discharge Coordinator.
"Financial Entitlement Unit or its equivalent" means that
				  institutional unit within the Division of Mental Health Services which processes
				  Interim Assistance, SSI and General Assistance applications for State psychiatric
				  hospital clients who are being prepared to release.
"General assistance" means assistance provided by a municipal
				  welfare department to a financially needy person who is ineligible for other
				  categoric assistance programs or who is awaiting an SSI eligibility
				  evaluation.
"Income Maintenance Technician (IMT)" means the individual
				  responsible for processing financial entitlement applications for clients referred
				  for financial services.
"Interdisciplinary Treatment Team" means a group of persons who
				  are responsible for evaluating a client's treatment and service needs, monitoring
				  the client's progress and assessing his or her readiness for discharge. The team is
				  composed of hospital staff and community service representatives.
"Interim Assistance Account" means an account established at a
				  State psychiatric hospital which is used to pay for maintenance costs of a client
				  who has been released to the community and who is awaiting an SSI eligibility
				  evaluation.
"Interim Assistance Reimbursement Agreement" means a formal
				  agreement between the State of New Jersey and the Social Security Administration
				  which establishes procedures to reimburse the State for financial assistance
				  provided to a client while his or her SSI application is being evaluated.
"Interim Assistant Statement" (Appendix A) means a client's formal
				  statement of interest in applying for Interim Assistance benefits.
"Legal alien" means an immigrant who has attained U.S. citizenship
				  through the naturalization process, making him or her eligible for SSI
				  benefits.
"Maintenance payment" means the room and board payment to the
				  housing provider.
"Office of Administrative Law" means the State agency, established
				  pursuant to 52:14B-1 et seq., which is responsible
				  for conducting hearings of all contested matters.
"Patient account" means an individual account maintained by a
				  State psychiatric hospital business office for a client.
"Personal Needs Allowance (PNA)" means that portion of the interim
				  assistance payment that is provided to a client in the community to be used for his
				  or her incidental personal expenses.
"Reconsideration" means a process whereby a Social Security staff
				  person reviews a case in which an SSI application was denied. A person who did not
				  take part in the first decision looks at the case to see if the denial is
				  correct.
"Redetermination" means a process whereby the Social Security
				  Administration annually reviews SSI recipients to evaluate continuing eligibility.
				  The process may also involve recipients who are in an institution less than one year
				  or who have been discharged from an institution in which they were hospitalized for
				  less than one year.
"Release" means physically placing the client in a program or
				  setting on a provisional basis outside the hospital without finally discharging him
				  or her administratively from the hospital.
"Representative payee" means a person selected by the client and
				  appointed by the Social Security Administration. The representative payee receives a
				  client's Federal benefit, including SSI payments, and disburses them for the benefit
				  of the client in accordance with Social Security Administration regulations.
"Residential drug or alcohol treatment program" means a program
				  specifically for mentally ill chemical abusers operated by a community residential
				  facility.
"Residential health care facility" means a facility which
				  furnishes food and shelter to four or more persons 18 years of age and older who are
				  unrelated to the owner and which provides dietary services, recreational activities,
				  supervision of self-administration of medications, supervision of and assistance in
				  activities of daily living and assistance in obtaining health services to any one or
				  more of such persons. Such facilities are licensed by the New Jersey State
				  Department of Health and Senior Services or the New Jersey Department of Community
				  Affairs, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:43, 8:42A and 8:42B.
"Retroactive SSI payment" means the initial payment following a
				  client's SSI benefit approval. It includes the amount due for the current month plus
				  payments retroactive to the day of the client's eligibility for SSI.
"Rooming house" means a boarding house wherein no personal or
				  financial services are provided to the residents.
"Supplemental Security Income (SSI)" means the Federal assistance
				  program authorized under Title XVI of the Social Security Act.
"Transitional residence" means a facility providing a structured
				  and supervised environment to aid in a client's adjustment to community
				  living.