Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part II - Public Assistance Manual › Subpart D - Determination of Need and Amount of Assistance › Chapter 187 - SUPPORT FROM RELATIVES NOT LIVING WITH THE CLIENT › SUPPORT PROVISIONS FOR CASH ASSISTANCE › Section 187.22 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Arrears
-Past due and unpaid
						support.
BCSE-Bureau of Child Support
						Enforcement
-The organizational unit in this Commonwealth responsible
						for supervising the State Plan for Child Support Enforcement under Title IV-D
						of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.A. §§
												651 -
						669b.
Budget group
-One or more related or
						unrelated individuals who occupy a common residence or would occupy a common
						residence if they were not homeless and whose needs and eligibility are
						considered together in determining eligibility for cash assistance under one
						category of assistance.
CAO-County assistance office
-The local
						office of the Department responsible for the determination of eligibility for
						cash, Food Stamps and MA Programs.
Cash assistance allowance
-The monthly
						family size allowance, reduced by the net income of the budget group. The
						family size allowance is described under §
											175.23(a)
						(relating to requirements).
DRS-Domestic Relations Section
-The
						division of a court of common pleas responsible for establishing and enforcing
						support orders.
Establishing paternity
-The process that
						determines the legal father of a child.
LRR-Legally responsible relative
-The
						spouse, including common-law, of the applicant or recipient of cash assistance,
						or the biological or adoptive parent of an unemancipated minor child for whom
						cash assistance is sought or received.
Obtaining support
-Establishing,
						modifying or enforcing a support order.
Support
-A judgment, decree or order
						whether temporary, final or subject to modification, imposed or imposable by a
						court or an administrative agency of competent jurisdiction for the support and
						maintenance of a child or spouse, or both, which provides for monetary support,
						health care, arrears or reimbursement, and which may include other
						relief.
Unemancipated minor child
-An individual
						who is under 18 years of age, or an individual 18 years of age or older but
						under 21 years of age, who has not graduated from high school, is not married
						and is in the care and control of a parent or caretaker.
The provisions of this §
													187.22 amended under sections
						  201(2), 403(b) and 432 of the Public Welfare Code (62 P. S. §§
														201(2),
						  403(b) and 432); the Support
						  Law (62 P. S. §§
														1971-1977); Titles I and III of the Personal
						  Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Pub. L. No.
						  104-193) (PRWORA), creating the Temporary
						  Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program, and amending
						  42 U.S.C.A. §§
														601-619,
						  651-669(b) and
						  1396u-1;
						  5543 of the Balanced Budget Act of
						  1997 (Pub. L. No.
						  105-33) (42 U.S.C.A. §
														653(p)); the Federal TANF
						  regulations in 45 CFR
						  260.10-265.10; and the
						  Domestic Relations Code,
						  23 Pa.C.S. §§
														4301-4381,
						  5103,
						  7101-7901 and
						  8101-8418.
This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
													141.53 (relating to eligibility
						  based on domestic violence); and 55 Pa. Code § 281.2 (relating to
						  definitions).