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§ 43-1-2. Mississippi Department of Human Services; Executive Director of Human Services; Joint Oversight Committee; powers of executive director; structure of department - Those qualifications shall be certified by the State Personnel Board.
§ 43-1-3. Delegation, privatization, or contracting with private entity for operation of office, bureau or division of department prohibited; contracts for improvement of performance or efficiency of services authorized - Notwithstanding the authority granted under subsection (4)(d) of Section 43-1-2,...
§ 43-1-4. Powers and duties of department - The Department of Human Services shall have the following powers...
§ 43-1-5. Duties of department - It shall be the duty of the Department of Human...
§ 43-1-9. County department of public welfare - There shall be created in each county of the state...
§ 43-1-11. Expenses of county welfare office - The boards of supervisors of the various counties of this...
§ 43-1-12. Expenditure of municipal or county funds to support public welfare programs - The governing authority of any municipality or county in this...
§ 43-1-15. Office of State Department - The state capitol commission shall furnish office space for the...
§ 43-1-17. Cooperation with the federal government - The state department of public welfare shall cooperate with the...
§ 43-1-21. Disposal of abandoned applications, closed case files, and the like - The state board of public welfare may, in its discretion,...
§ 43-1-25. Assistant prosecutors for prosecution of fraud in connection with assistance programs; investigation and prosecution costs to be subsidized - All political subdivisions of the state, or combinations of political...
§ 43-1-27. Action maintainable by department of public welfare to recover benefits wrongfully obtained; attorney's fees; evidence - For purposes of this and other related sections, any food...
§ 43-1-29.1. Department of Human Services authorized to develop pilot program to track usage of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits - The Department of Human Services, is authorized, in its discretion,...
§ 43-1-30. Mississippi TANF Implementation Council - Ten (10) members shall be representatives from business and industry,...
Mandatory State Supplemental Payments to Aged, Blind and Disabled Persons
§ 43-1-31. Purpose of law; contracts with, and payment by, federal authority - The purpose of Sections 43-1-31 through 43-1-37 is to provide...
§ 43-1-33. Definitions - As used in Sections 43-1-31 through 43-1-37: "Aged, blind or...
§ 43-1-37. When person becomes ineligible to receive payments - An individual eligible for mandatory state supplementary payments from the...
Division of Family and Children's Services
§ 43-1-51. Creation of division; areas of responsibility - There is hereby created within the Department of Human Services...
§ 43-1-59. Allocation of departmental resources - It is the intent of the Legislature that the resources...
§ 43-1-63. Interdepartmental sharing of resources and services for preventing and detecting child abuse and neglect - The Department of Human Services shall have the authority to...
§ 43-1-65. Mississippi Child Care Quality Step System established by requiring Department of Human Services Office for Children and Youth to develop and implement pilot voluntary quality rating system (QRS) - The Department of Human Services shall establish the Mississippi Child...
§ 43-1-67. Office of Children and Youth to conduct needs assessment to determine need for program to provide incentives to certain teachers/directors who make educational advancements listed in QRS criteria - The Office for Children and Youth of the Department of...
Mississippi Interagency Council on Homelessness -