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Indiana Code Title 12. Human Services § 12-8-1.5-12

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

Sec. 12. Subject to the appropriation limits established by the state's biennial budget for the office of the secretary and its divisions, and after assistance, including assistance under TANF (IC 12-14), medical assistance (IC 12-15), and food stamps (7 U.S.C. 2016(i)), is distributed to persons eligible to receive assistance, the secretary may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to offer programs on a pilot or statewide basis to encourage recipients of assistance under IC 12-14 to become self-sufficient and discontinue dependence on public assistance programs.  Programs offered under this subsection may do the following:

(1) Develop welfare-to-work programs.

(2) Develop home child care training programs that will enable recipients to work by providing child care for other recipients.

(3) Provide case management and supportive services.

(4) Develop a system to provide for public service opportunities for recipients.

(5) Provide plans to implement the personal responsibility agreement under IC 12-14-2-21.

(6) Develop programs to implement the school attendance requirement under IC 12-14-2-17.

(7) Provide funds for county planning council activities under IC 12-14-22-13 (repealed).

(8) Provide that a recipient may earn up to the federal income poverty level (as defined in IC 12-15-2-1) before assistance under this title is reduced or eliminated.

(9) Provide for child care assistance, with the recipient paying fifty percent (50%) of the local market rate as established under 45 CFR 256 for child care.

(10) Provide for medical care assistance under IC 12-15, if the recipient's employer does not offer the recipient health care coverage.

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