Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part II - Public Assistance Manual › Subpart D - Determination of Need and Amount of Assistance › Chapter 177 - RESOURCES › GENERAL RESOURCE PROVISIONS FOR TANF/GA › Section 177.2 - 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:
Automobile
-A passenger car, truck,
						motorcycle or other motor vehicle that can be used to transport persons or
						goods, and is of a type permitted to travel on public roads.
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 are considered together in
						determining eligibility for cash assistance under one category of
						assistance.
Burial reserve
-Funds or other resources
						held in trust or under contract with a financial institution or a funeral
						director, and designated for burial expenses. The term may also be known as
						funeral reserves, funeral agreements, prepaid funeral agreements, burial funds,
						burial agreements, and the like.
Burial space
-A conventional grave site,
						crypt, burial drawer, mausoleum, urn and another repository used to deposit the
						remains of deceased persons.
CWEP
-The Community Work Experience
						Program under Chapter 166 (relating to employment and community work experience
						program).
Equity value
-The fair market value, less
						encumbrances.
Fair market value
-The price which
						property would sell for on the open market in the geographic area in which it
						is located.
Good faith effort to sell real
						property
-Listing the real property with a licensed real estate broker
						or advertising the real property for sale in the local newspaper within 10
						working days following an applicant's authorization of assistance or a
						recipient's reapplication, and accepting an offer of purchase which represents
						the fair market value or more for the real property.
LRR-legally responsible relative
-A
						spouse, or the natural or adoptive parent of a TANF dependent child, of a GA
						unemancipated child 18 years of age or younger, or of a minor parent. The term
						does not include a putative father.
Legally available resource
-Real or
						personal property or interest property which a person has, or can make
						available for his use. The term includes partial interest in property which a
						person has the right, authority and power to liquidate, and partial interest in
						property if the co-owners consent to disposition or liquidation.
Minor parent
-A TANF-eligible person
						under 18 years of age who has never been married and is the natural parent of a
						dependent child living with the minor parent, or is pregnant or a GA-eligible
						person 16 or 17 years of age who has never been married and is the natural
						parent of a dependent child living with the minor parent, or is
						pregnant.
Nonresident property
-A house, mobile
						home, building, burial plot or land which is not used as resident property by
						the applicant/recipient, the applicant or recipient's spouse or minor or
						incompetent adult children.
Personal property
-A privately owned
						possession which is not real property. The term may include cash, bank
						accounts, stocks, bonds, mortgages, life insurance policies, household
						furnishings, personal effects, boats and Federal, State and local tax
						refunds.
Real property
-Land, buildings, mobile
						homes and improvements thereto.
Rebuttable presumption
-A rule of
						evidence which permits the Department to assume that when certain facts are
						true, other facts are true, without having proof of those other facts. The
						presumption is automatic, and may be disproved or rebutted only by the client
						presenting evidence at a prehearing conference or a fair hearing. If the client
						presents no evidence at a prehearing conference to disprove the presumption,
						the presumption remains unrebutted and stands.
Resident property
-A house, mobile home
						or building, including the land on which it sits, which is lived in by the
						client, the client's spouse or minor or incompetent adult children.
Resource
-Real or personal
						property.
The provisions of this §
													177.2 issued under section 403(b)
						  of the Public Welfare Code (62 P. S. §
														403(b)); amended under
						  sections 201 and 403(b) of the Public Welfare Code (62 P. S. §§
														201 and
						  403(b)).
This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
													177.21 (relating to personal
						  property); 55 Pa. Code §
													177.23 (relating to ownership);
						  and 55 Pa. Code §
													283.22 (relating to
						  resources).