Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 256J > DIVERSIONARY WORK PROGRAM

• Agency: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Applicant: means a person who has submitted to a county agency an application and whose application has not been acted upon, denied, or voluntarily withdrawn. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Application: means the submission by or on behalf of a family to a county agency of a completed, signed, and dated form, prescribed by the commissioner, that indicates the desire to receive assistance. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• 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
• Association: means the combined membership of all teachers who qualify and participate in the retirement program provided for in this chapter. See Minnesota Statutes 354.05
• 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
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's designated representative. 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
• Date of application: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Minnesota Department of Human Services. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Disqualified: means being ineligible to receive MFIP due to noncooperation with program requirements. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Documentation: means a written statement or record that substantiates or validates an assertion made by a person or an action taken by a person, agency, or entity. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• DWP: has the meaning given in section 256J. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Earned income: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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 violence: means the following, if committed against a family or household member by a family or household member:

  (1) physical harm, bodily injury, or assault;

  (2) the infliction of fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, or assault; or

  (3) terroristic threats, within the meaning of section 609. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08

• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• fund: means the teachers retirement fund referred to in this chapter. See Minnesota Statutes 354.05
• hearing: means the evidentiary hearing conducted by the department human services judge to resolve disputes as specified in section 256J. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Home: means the primary place of residence used by a person as the base for day-to-day living and does not include locations used as mail drops. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Household: means a group of persons who live together. 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
• 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
• Overpayment: means the portion of an assistance payment issued by the county agency that is greater than the amount for which the assistance unit is eligible. 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
• Participant: includes any of the following:

  (1) a person who is currently receiving cash assistance or the food portion available through MFIP;

  (2) a person who withdraws a cash or food assistance payment by electronic transfer or receives and cashes an MFIP assistance check or food coupons and is subsequently determined to be ineligible for assistance for that period of time is a participant, regardless whether that assistance is repaid;

  (3) the caregiver relative and the minor child whose needs are included in the assistance payment;

  (4) a person in an assistance unit who does not receive a cash and food assistance payment because the case has been suspended from MFIP; and

  (5) a person who receives cash payments under family stabilization services under section 256J. 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
• Person trained in domestic violence: means an individual who works for an organization that is designated by the Minnesota Center for Crime Victims Services as providing services to victims of domestic violence, or a county staff person who has received similar specialized training, and includes any other person or organization designated by a qualifying organization under this section. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Prospective budgeting: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Recoupment: means the action of the county agency to reduce a family's monthly assistance payment to recover overpayments caused by client or agency error and overpayments received while an appeal is pending. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Retirement: means the withdrawal of a member from active teaching service who is paid a retirement annuity thereafter and commences with the date designated by the retirement board when the retirement annuity first accrues to the former member after withdrawal from active teaching service and application for an annuity under section 354. See Minnesota Statutes 354.05
• state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Transitional standard: means the basic standard for a family without earned income and is a combination of the cash portion and food portion as specified in section 256J. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Unearned income: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Vendor: means a provider of goods or services. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Vendor payment: means a payment authorized by a county agency to a vendor. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Verification: means the process a county agency uses to establish the accuracy or completeness of information from an applicant, participant, third party, or other source as that information relates to program eligibility or an assistance payment. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• verified: when used in reference to writings, means supported by oath or affirmation. See Minnesota Statutes 645.45