Illinois Compiled Statutes 305 ILCS 5/9A-4 – Participation
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(a) Except for those exempted under subsection (b) below, and to the extent resources permit, the Illinois Department as a condition of eligibility for public aid, may, as provided by rule, require all recipients to participate in an education, training, and employment program, which shall include accepting suitable employment and refraining from terminating employment or reducing earnings without good cause.
(b) Recipients shall be exempt from the requirement of participation in the education, training, and employment program in the following circumstances:
(1) The recipient is a person over age 60; or
(2) The recipient is a person with a child under age
(b) Recipients shall be exempt from the requirement of participation in the education, training, and employment program in the following circumstances:
Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 305 ILCS 5/9A-4
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
- recipient: means only those persons receiving aid under Article IV. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 305 ILCS 5/9A-2
(1) The recipient is a person over age 60; or
(2) The recipient is a person with a child under age
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Recipients are entitled to request a reasonable modification to the requirement of participation in the education, training and employment program in order to accommodate a qualified individual with a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Requests for a reasonable modification shall be evaluated on a case-by-case functional basis by designated staff based on Department rule. All such requests shall be monitored as part of the agency’s quality assurance process or processes to attest to the expediency with which such requests are addressed. Implementation of the changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly is subject to appropriation.