(a) A participant in the Alaska temporary assistance program shall cooperate with the department, or its designee, to develop and sign a family self-sufficiency plan that includes

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 47.27.030

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(1) the steps the family will take towards the self-sufficiency of the family;
(2) the self-sufficiency services the department will provide to assist the family to attain self-sufficiency;
(3) specific benchmarks to indicate the steps toward successful completion of the family plan;
(4) a statement that the family may be subject to reductions in cash assistance or self-sufficiency services or other sanctions if the family fails to comply with the family plan; and
(5) a statement that describes the necessary conditions and the steps that must be taken to renegotiate the terms of the family plan.
(b) The family self-sufficiency plan must set a time period for the achievement of self-sufficiency from cash assistance under the Alaska temporary assistance program. Initially, that time period may not provide for any more than a total of 60 months of cash assistance under the Alaska temporary assistance program even though the family may eventually be eligible for an exemption under Alaska Stat. § 47.27.015(a)(1). Unless the members of the family who are not dependent children are all exempt under Alaska Stat. § 47.27.035(b) – (d), the time period for receiving cash assistance may not exceed a cumulative total of 24 months unless each nonexempt person is in compliance with the work activity assignment made under Alaska Stat. § 47.27.035.
(c) A family is exempt from the requirement that the family have a self-sufficiency plan under this section if the family

(1) does not include a needy adult; or
(2)[Repealed, Sec. 3 ch 75 SLA 2001].
(3) is receiving a diversion payment under Alaska Stat. § 47.27.026.
(d) The department may provide only self-sufficiency services to a family that no longer qualifies for cash assistance due to employment, a family that is disqualified from receiving cash assistance under Alaska Stat. § 47.27.015(a)(1), (c), or (g), or a family that qualifies for cash assistance but requests only self-sufficiency services. Self-sufficiency services that are made available to a family under this subsection shall be based on a determination of need established by the department in regulation. If a family receives only self-sufficiency services, the department may waive the self-sufficiency plan requirements specified in (a) and (b) of this section.
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