239B.1 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Applicant” means a person who files an application for participation in the family investment program under this chapter.
2. “Assistance” means a family investment program payment.
3. “Child” means an unmarried person who is less than eighteen years of age or an unmarried person who is eighteen years of age and is engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or equivalency requirements in a manner which is reasonably expected to result in completion of the requirements prior to the person reaching nineteen years of age.
4. “Department” means the department of human services.
5. “Family” means a family unit that includes at least one child and at least one parent or other specified relative of the child.
6. “Family investment agreement” means the agreement developed with a participant in accordance with section 239B.8.
7. “Family investment program” means the family investment program under this chapter.
8. “Limited benefit plan” means a period of time in which a participant or member of a participant’s family is either eligible for reduced assistance only or ineligible for any assistance under the family investment program, in accordance with section 239B.9.
9. “Minor parent” means an applicant or participant parent who is less than eighteen years of age and has never been married.
10. “Participant” means a person who is receiving full or partial family investment program assistance. For the purposes of sections 239B.8 and 239B.9, “participant” also includes each individual who does not directly receive assistance but who is required to be engaged in work or training options specified in the participant’s family investment agreement entered into under section 239B.8.
11. “PROMISE JOBS program” or “JOBS program” means the promoting independence and self-sufficiency through employment job opportunities and basic skills program created in section 239B.17.
12. “Specified relative” means a person who is, or was at any time, one of the following relatives of an applicant or participant child, by means of blood relationship, marriage, or adoption, or is a spouse of one of the following relatives:
a. Parent.
b. Grandparent.
c. Great-grandparent.
d. Great-great-grandparent.
e. Stepparent of the child, but not the parent of the stepparent.
f. Sibling.
g. Stepsibling.
h. Sibling by at least the half blood.
i. Uncle or aunt by at least the half blood.
j. Great-uncle or great-aunt.
k. Great-great-uncle or great-great-aunt.
l. First cousin.
m. Nephew or niece.
n. Second cousin.
97 Acts, ch 41, §2, 34; 2007 Acts, ch 124, §1
Referred to in §252B.1
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 239B - FAMILY INVESTMENT PROGRAM
Section 239B.2 - Conditions of eligibility.
Section 239B.2A - School attendance.
Section 239B.2B - Eligibility of noncitizens.
Section 239B.2C - Absence from home — incarceration.
Section 239B.3 - Cash assistance.
Section 239B.4 - Departmental role.
Section 239B.5 - Compliance with federal law — prohibited electronic benefit transfer transactions.
Section 239B.6 - Assignment of support rights or benefits.
Section 239B.7 - Income and resource exemptions, deductions, and disregards.
Section 239B.8 - Family investment agreements.
Section 239B.9 - Limited benefit plan.
Section 239B.10 - Minor and young parents — other requirements.
Section 239B.11A - Transitional benefits.
Section 239B.12 - Immunization.
Section 239B.13 - Needy relative payee — protective payee — vendor payment.
Section 239B.14 - Fraudulent practices — recovery of overpayments.
Section 239B.15 - County attorney to enforce.
Section 239B.16 - Appeal — judicial review.
Section 239B.17 - PROMISE JOBS program.
Section 239B.18 - JOBS program participation.
Section 239B.19 - JOBS program availability.
Section 239B.20 - JOBS program health and safety.
Section 239B.21 - JOBS program — workers’ compensation law applicable.
Section 239B.22 - JOBS program — participant not state employee.