(a) If at any time during the continuance of assistance the recipient thereof becomes possessed of any property or income in excess of the amount stated in the application for assistance, it shall be the duty of the recipient immediately to notify the county office of the receipt or possession of the property or income. The Department of Human Services may either cancel the assistance or alter the amount thereof in accordance with the circumstances.
(b) Any assistance paid after the recipient has come into the possession of the property or income and in excess of his or her need shall be recoverable by the state as a debt due the state.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 76 - Public Assistance Generally
Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance
§ 20-76-401. Eligibility generally — Transitional Employment Assistance Program
§ 20-76-402. Work activities — Definitions
§ 20-76-403. Application — Fraud
§ 20-76-404. Duration of assistance — Extended support services
§ 20-76-405. Diversion from assistance
§ 20-76-407. Micro-lending program and individual development accounts
§ 20-76-408. Appeal to Department of Human Services
§ 20-76-410. Administrative sanctions — Transitional employment assistance
§ 20-76-412. Abandonment — Duties of Department of Human Services
§ 20-76-418. Foster care — Reduction in long-term care
§ 20-76-419. Blind persons generally
§ 20-76-420. Blind persons — Choice of eye care
§ 20-76-421. Aged and blind persons generally
§ 20-76-423. Aged, blind, and disabled — Supplemental Security Income — Legislative intent
§ 20-76-429. Receipt of additional property or income by assistance recipient
§ 20-76-431. Transfer of property prohibited
§ 20-76-432. Removal to another county
§ 20-76-433. Records — Confidentiality
§ 20-76-434. Maintenance of list of recipients
§ 20-76-435. No entitlement to assistance
§ 20-76-436. Recovery of benefits from recipients' estates
§ 20-76-437. Reporting — Transitional employment assistance
§ 20-76-443. Education and training
§ 20-76-444. Arkansas Work Pays Program — Created — Duties