Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 151 > AUTOMATED DRUG DISTRIBUTION

• Agency: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Budget month: means the calendar month which the county agency uses to determine the income or circumstances of an assistance unit to calculate the amount of the assistance payment in the payment month. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Caregiver: means a minor child's birth or adoptive parent or parents and stepparent who live in the home with the minor child. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Countable income: means earned and unearned income that is described in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• County agency: means the agency designated by the county board to implement financial assistance for current programs and for MFIP and the agency responsible for enforcement of child support collection, and a county or multicounty agency that is authorized under sections 393. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Earned income: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Family: includes :

  (1) the following individuals who live together: a minor child or a group of minor children related to each other as siblings, half siblings, stepsiblings, or adoptive siblings, together with their natural, adoptive parents, stepparents, or caregiver as defined in subdivision 11; and

  (2) a pregnant woman with no other children. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08

• Family wage level: means 110 percent of the transitional standard as specified in section 256J. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• FICA: means the federal law under United States Code, title 26, subtitle C, chapter 21, subchapter A, sections 3101 to 3126, that requires withholding or direct payment from earned income. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Gross earned income: means earned income from employment before mandatory and voluntary payroll deductions. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Half-time student: means a person who is enrolled in a graded or ungraded primary, intermediate, secondary, commissioner of education-selected high school equivalency preparatory, trade, technical, vocational, or postsecondary school, and who meets the school's standard of half-time attendance. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Income: means cash or in-kind benefit, whether earned or unearned, received by or available to an applicant or participant that is not property under section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• MFIP: means the assistance program authorized in this chapter. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Minor: means an individual under the age of 18. See Minnesota Statutes 645.451
• Minor child: means a child who is living in the same home of a parent or other caregiver, is not the parent of a child in the home, and is either less than 18 years of age or is under the age of 19 years and is a full-time student in a secondary school or pursuing a full-time secondary level course of vocational or technical training designed to fit students for gainful employment. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and "year" is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Monthly income test: means the test used to determine ongoing eligibility and the assistance payment amount according to section 256J. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Parent: means a child's biological or adoptive parent who is legally obligated to support that child. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Payment month: means the calendar month for which the assistance payment is paid. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Prospective budgeting: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Unearned income: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08