North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 108A. Social Services § 108A-89. State Public Assistance Contingency Loan Program

(a) The Department is authorized and empowered to establish a program known as the “State Public Assistance Contingency Loan Program.” The purpose of this program shall be to make loans available to counties whose actual expenditures, excluding related administrative costs, exceed the estimates for public assistance programs only provided by the Department under G.S. 108A-88.

(b) Loans shall be made to the counties at any time during the fiscal year by the Department, when satisfied of the county's need for such loan under this Article.

(c) A loan provided under this section shall be used by a county only to pay the county share of public assistance costs that exceeds the estimate provided by the Department under G.S. 108A-88 in order to sustain an adequate program of public assistance in that county.

(d) Any amount borrowed by a county from the “State Public Assistance Contingency Fund” during one fiscal year shall be repaid to said fund within the next two fiscal years.