Texas Administrative Code › Title 1 - ADMINISTRATION › Part 15 - TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION › Chapter 376 - REFUGEE SOCIAL SERVICES › Subchapter A - PURPOSE AND SCOPE › Section 376.103 - How are the terms in this chapter defined?

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise.
(1) Adult--An individual 18
				  years of age or older.
(2)
				  Applicant--An individual who has applied for refugee social services and is
				  waiting on an eligibility determination.
(3) Asylee--An individual who has been
				  granted asylum under section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
				  (INA).
(4) Asylee applicant--An
				  individual who has applied for but has not been granted status under section
				  208 of the INA.
(5) Case management
				  services--Assessment, planning, and determining referrals for services and
				  monitoring the refugee's participation in these services.
(6) Cash assistance--Financial assistance to
				  refugees, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Social
				  Security Income, Refugee Cash Assistance, and, if available, general state
				  assistance.
(7) Contractor--An
				  organization that has a contract to provide refugee social services with the
				  Texas Department of Human Services (DHS).
(8) CFR--Code of Federal
				  Regulations.
(9) CHIP--Texas
				  Children's Health Insurance Program.
(10) DHS--Texas Department of Human
				  Services.
(11) Discretionary
				  grants--Grants targeted at specific refugee populations at the discretion of
				  the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
(12) DOJ--Department of Justice.
(13) DOS--Department of State
(14) Economic self-sufficiency--Earning a
				  total family income at a level that enables a family unit to support itself
				  without receiving a cash assistance grant.
(15) Employability plan--An employment plan
				  designed to lead to the earliest possible employment in the shortest time
				  period.
(16) Family
				  unit--Individual adult, married individuals without children, or parents, or
				  custodial relatives with minor children who are ineligible for TANF, who live
				  in the same household.
(17) Fund
				  accounting--A system of accounting that requires separate records and
				  allocations for each grant or source of funding.
(18) INA--Immigration and Nationality
				  Act.
(19) Incentive payment--A
				  one-time payment for early employment.
(20) INS--Immigration and Naturalization
				  Service.
(21) LEP--Limited English
				  Proficiency.
(22) MAA--Mutual
				  Assistance Agency, a nonprofit corporation that has not less than 51% of the
				  Board of Directors or governing board comprised of refugees or former refugees,
				  including both refugee men and women.
(23) MNIL--Medically Needy Income
				  Limit.
(24) Nepotism--Hiring family
				  or friends when that relationship could be perceived as a conflict of interest
				  in providing services to refugees.
(25) OIRA--Office of Immigration and Refugee
				  Affairs under DHS.
(26) ORR--Office
				  of Refugee Resettlement.
(27)
				  P-3--Public/Private Partnership, a state-administered option for the provision
				  of refugee cash assistance through contracts or grants with local resettlement
				  agencies.
(28) Participant--A
				  person who has been determined eligible for refugee social services.
(29) Refugee--An individual admitted to the
				  United States under section 207 of the INA.
(30) Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA)--A
				  time-limited cash assistance program available to eligible refugees who are
				  ineligible for TANF.
(31) Refugee
				  Medical Assistance (RMA)--A time-limited medical assistance program provided to
				  eligible refugees who are ineligible for Medicaid.
(32) RSS--Refugee Social Services
				  Grant.
(33) TAC--Texas
				  Administrative Code.
(34)
				  TAG--Targeted Assistance Grant.
(35) TANF--Temporary Assistance for Needy
				  Families.
(36) Texas Department of
				  Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS)--State agency approved under state law
				  to provide child welfare services to children of the state.
(37) Title IV-B plan--State plan for
				  providing child welfare services to children in the state under part B of Title
				  IV of the Social Security Act.
(38)
				  UNHCR--United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
(39) Unaccompanied Refugee Minor (URM)--a
				  person under 18 years old:
(A) who entered
				  the United States unaccompanied by and not destined to a parent or close
				  non-parental adult relative or adult with a clear and court-verifiable claim to
				  custody of the minor;
(B) who has
				  no parents in the United States; and
(C) who has been identified by the INS as an
				  unaccompanied minor.