Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Health Services › DHS 250 - Economic Support › Chapter DHS 254 - IM Worker Training › Section DHS 254.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Automated system" means a
				computer-supported process used by the department and the department of
				workforce development, including CARES.
(2) "CARES" means the department of workforce
				development's automated client assistance for re-employment and economic
				support.
Note
CARES is the automated system used by DWD
				  and DHS to determine eligibility, calculate benefits, and retain data for
				  income maintenance programs and W-2.
(3) "Case management" means the
				family-centered and goal-oriented process for assessing the needs of an IM
				group member and his or her family for employment, training, and supportive
				services and assisting the IM group member in obtaining services to achieve
				self-sufficiency.
(4) "County
				agency" means the agency established under s.
				46.215,
				46.22, or
				46.23,
				Stats.
(5) "Department" means the
				Wisconsin department of health services.
(6) "Eligibility determination" means the act
				or process by which the situation of a person or a group is compared to a set
				of standards to determine whether the person or group meets the criteria for
				receiving a specific type of income maintenance.
(7) "Experienced IM worker" means an IM
				worker employed by a county, tribal or W-2 agency before December 1, 1999, or
				an IM worker who has completed initial income maintenance training.
(8) "IM handbooks, manuals, and instructional
				materials" means income maintenance handbooks, manuals, and memos that are
				issued by the department of health services and addressed to county and tribal
				agencies and set forth eligibility and benefit criteria and case maintenance
				and case processing information.
(9) "Income maintenance" or "IM" has the same
				meaning as "income maintenance program" in s.
				49.78(1)
				(b), Stats.
Note
Section
				  49.78(1)
				  (b) provides that: "`Income maintenance
				  program' means the Medical Assistance program under subch. IV, the Badger Care
				  health care program under s.
				  49.665, the food
				  stamp program under
				  7 USC
				  2011 to
				  2036
				  except for the employment and training program described in s.
				  49.79(9),
				  or the cemetery, funeral, and burial expenses program under s.
				  49.785."
(10) "Income maintenance worker"
				or "IM worker" means a person employed by a county, a governing body of a
				federally recognized American Indian whose duties include determinations or
				redeterminations of income maintenance program eligibility.
(11) "New IM worker" means a person who is
				employed by a county or tribal agency as an IM worker on or after December 1,
				1999
,
including a permanent employee who transfers into an IM
				worker position and who has not completed initial income maintenance
				training.
(12) "Tribal agency"
				means an agency designated by the elected tribal governing body of a
				federally-recognized Wisconsin Indian tribe or band and contracted by the
				department to administer an income maintenance program.