Section 101.30  Assistance Programs

a)         The types of assistance programs administered by the Illinois Department of Public Aid include:  financial assistance, medical assistance and food stamps.

b)         Financial Assistance Programs – consists primarily of direct cash payments to recipients.  The various financial assistance programs are:

1)         Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled – State Supplemental Payment

For aged, blind or disabled persons.

2)         Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

For families with one or more children.

3)         Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP)

For refugees from any country.

4)         Repatriate Program

For United States citizens and their dependents returned from a foreign country by the U.S. Department of State.

5)         General Assistance

For individuals and families who do not qualify for assistance under the Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled (AABD) – State Supplemental Payment (SSP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or federal Supplement Security Income (SSI) programs and who meet GA program requirements.

c)         Medical Assistance – under which payments are made to medical providers for services provided to recipients.

1)         Medicaid

For persons eligible for financial assistance under the AABD-SSP and TANF programs and for individuals not eligible for financial assistance but who meet the requirements of those programs for medical assistance only.  This includes pregnant women of any age with no other children who would be eligible for TANF or MANG (CR) if the child had already been born.  Medicaid is provided under the AFDC-F program for children under DCFS guardianship who have been placed in licensed foster care or in the home of a relative.

2)         Healthy Kids

A preventative health program for all clients who are under 21 years of age and who are receiving AFDC, AABD, RRA, GA, MANG or TANF. Through Healthy Kids, persons are given periodic screening examinations at certain ages from birth through age 20.  The screening is to diagnose and treat health problems at an early stage.

3)         General Assistance Medical

For persons receiving financial benefits under the GA program.

d)         Food Stamps – provides increased food purchasing benefits to recipients.  Food Stamp benefits are available to individuals who meet the eligibility requirements of the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in accordance with the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2017 et seq.).

e)         Title IV-D – attempts to collect child support payments from absent parents in behalf of children receiving assistance.  The Department enlists the cooperation of the caretaker relative in identifying, locating and securing support from an absent parent or parents or putative father. Such support received is subsequently paid directly to the Department.

(Source:  Amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 13619, effective October 1, 1997)