Iowa Code 239B.3 – Cash assistance
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1. a. Within available funding, the department shall provide an ongoing cash assistance grant under the family investment program to a family eligible under section 239B.2.
b. For an eligibility decision involving an applicant family with a specified relative, within thirty days of the date of an application, the department shall authorize issuance of notice of the department’s decision to the specified relative.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 239B.3
- Applicant: means a person who files an application for participation in the family investment program under this chapter. See Iowa Code 239B.1
- Assistance: means a family investment program payment. See Iowa Code 239B.1
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
- Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 239B.1
- Family: means a family unit that includes at least one child and at least one parent or other specified relative of the child. See Iowa Code 239B.1
- Family investment program: means the family investment program under this chapter. See Iowa Code 239B.1
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Institution: means a birthing hospital. See Iowa Code 252A.2
- Limited benefit plan: means a period of time in which a participant or member of a participant's family is either eligible for reduced assistance only or ineligible for any assistance under the family investment program, in accordance with section 239B. See Iowa Code 239B.1
- Participant: means a person who is receiving full or partial family investment program assistance. See Iowa Code 239B.1
- Specified relative: means a person who is, or was at any time, one of the following relatives of an applicant or participant child, by means of blood relationship, marriage, or adoption, or is a spouse of one of the following relatives:a. See Iowa Code 239B.1
- United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. For an applicant or participant family, the department shall calculate and pay the cash assistance grant on a monthly basis, taking into consideration all of the following:a. The income and resources of the family.b. Whether the family has entered into a limited benefit plan.c. The size of the family.d. Available funding.3. The department may pay cash assistance and other cash benefits paid under this chapter by warrant, through a direct deposit to a financial institution of a participant, or through an electronic benefits transfer.4. The department may pay, from funds appropriated for this purpose, a maximum of four hundred dollars toward funeral expenses on the death of a child who is a participant or has been authorized to participate in the family investment program, provided both of the following conditions apply:a. The decedent does not leave an estate which may be probated with sufficient proceeds to allow for payment of the funeral expenses.b. Payments which are due the decedent’s estate or beneficiary by reason of the liability of a life insurance, death or funeral benefit company, association, or society, or in the form of United States social security, railroad retirement, or veterans’ benefits upon the death of the decedent, are deducted from the department’s payment under this section.