§ 40-5.2-38. Application and effect of this chapter on applicants and recipients.
(a) All provisions of this chapter, with the exception of subsection (b), shall be effective and apply to all applicants and recipients on or after July 1, 2008.
(b) For all current recipients as of July 1, 2008, who have received cash assistance, either state or federally funded, since May 1, 1997, under Rhode Island’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (federal TANF described at Title IV-A of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.), formerly entitled the family independence program, or received cash assistance from another state, either state or federally funded, since May 1, 1997, under that state’s similar Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (federal TANF described at Title IV-A of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.), prior to October 1, 2008, application and implementation of the time limits described in § 40-5.2-10(h) will occur on and after July 1, 2009.
(c) All cash assistance received, either state or federally funded, since May 1, 1997, under Rhode Island’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (federal TANF described at Title IV-A of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.), formerly entitled the family independence program, or in another state under that state’s similar Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (federal TANF described at Title IV-A of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.) prior to July 1, 2009, shall be counted toward the time limits of cash assistance described in § 40-5.1-10(h) [repealed].
(d) The department will not close families who previously received cash assistance, either state or federally funded, since May 1, 1997, under Rhode Island’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (federal TANF described at Title IV-A of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.), formerly entitled the family independence program, or in another state under that state’s similar Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (federal TANF described at Title IV-A of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.) prior to the effective date of the Rhode Island works program due to the time limit outlined in § 40-5.2-10(h) of this chapter until July 1, 2009. Except, however, all those families who previously received family independence program cash assistance, either state or federally funded or in another state, as described above, and who will reach the family independence program sixty-month (60), lifetime time limit in accordance with prior Rhode Island general law, § 40-5.1-8(d), prior to July 1, 2009, shall be closed at the time they would have reached the sixty-month (60) time limit in accordance with prior Rhode Island general law, § 40-5.1-8(d). Nothing in this section shall be deemed to mean that any recipient of cash assistance, either state or federally funded, through the prior family independence program shall receive more than the time limit of sixty (60) months of cash assistance that had been permissible under prior Rhode Island general law, § 40-5.1-8(d).
(e) Those families or assistance units receiving cash assistance shall be notified in writing as to the time limits imposed on the receipt of cash assistance in accordance with the Rhode Island works program under this chapter, as well as all the other program requirements.
History of Section.P.L. 2008, ch. 100, art. 16, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 40-5.2 - The Rhode Island Works Program
Section 40-5.2-1. - Short title.
Section 40-5.2-2. - The Rhode Island works program — Statement of purpose.
Section 40-5.2-3. - Legislative intent.
Section 40-5.2-5. - Rhode Island works — Promotion of work.
Section 40-5.2-7. - Work participation rates.
Section 40-5.2-8. - Definitions.
Section 40-5.2-9. - The Rhode Island works program — General eligibility requirements.
Section 40-5.2-10. - Necessary requirements and conditions.
Section 40-5.2-11. - Cash assistance.
Section 40-5.2-12. - Work requirements for receipt of cash assistance.
Section 40-5.2-13. - Income deeming.
Section 40-5.2-14. - Reporting of income and resources by participants.
Section 40-5.2-15. - Reporting absence.
Section 40-5.2-16. - Minimum payment.
Section 40-5.2-17. - Assistance not assignable; exemption from process.
Section 40-5.2-18. - Up-front cash program.
Section 40-5.2-19. - Appropriate child care necessary for work requirement.
Section 40-5.2-20. - Childcare assistance — Families or assistance units eligible.
Section 40-5.2-21. - Eligibility for medical benefits.
Section 40-5.2-22. - Emergency expenses.
Section 40-5.2-23. - Post-employment incentive bonus.
Section 40-5.2-24. - Overpayment and underpayment of benefits.
Section 40-5.2-25. - Hearings.
Section 40-5.2-26. - Records as to assistance.
Section 40-5.2-27. - Department of human services.
Section 40-5.2-28. - Rules and regulations.
Section 40-5.2-29. - Noncustodial parents — Employment obligations.
Section 40-5.2-30. - Fraudulently obtaining assistance.
Section 40-5.2-31. - Authorization to pay assistance.
Section 40-5.2-32. - Cashing of assistance checks.
Section 40-5.2-33. - Child clothing allowance.
Section 40-5.2-34. - Screening for domestic violence — Waiver of program requirements.
Section 40-5.2-35. - Child support pass-through.
Section 40-5.2-36. - Appropriation of funds.
Section 40-5.2-37. - Severability.
Section 40-5.2-38. - Application and effect of this chapter on applicants and recipients.
Section 40-5.2-39. - References to the family independence program.