Iowa Code 241.1 – Definitions
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Department” means the department of health and human services.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 241.1
- Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Dependent: shall mean and include a spouse, child, mother, father, grandparent, or grandchild who is in need of and entitled to support from a person who is declared to be legally liable for such support. See Iowa Code 252A.2
- Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 241.1
- 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
2. “Director” means the director of health and human services.
3. “Displaced homemaker” means an individual who meets all of the following criteria:
a. Has worked principally in the home providing unpaid household services for family members.
b. Is not gainfully employed.
c. Has had, or would apparently have, difficulty finding appropriate paid employment.
d. Has been dependent on the income of another family member but is no longer supported by that income, is or has been dependent on government assistance, or is supported as the parent of a child who is sixteen or seventeen years of age.