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305 ILCS 42/10

(305 ILCS 42/10)

Sec. 10. Definitions.

As used in this Act, unless the context requires
otherwise:

"At-risk populations" means populations including but not limited to
families with children receiving aid under Article IV of the Illinois
Public Aid Code, households receiving federal supplemental security income
payments, households with incomes at or below 185%
of the poverty guidelines updated annually in the Federal Register by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services under authority of Section 673(2) of
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, recipients of emergency food,
elderly persons or persons with disabilities, homeless persons, unemployed persons, and families and
persons residing in rural households who are at risk of nutritional
deficiencies.

"Secretary" means the Secretary of Human Services.

"Food assistance programs" means programs including but not limited
to the food stamp program, school breakfast and lunch programs, child care food
programs, summer food service programs, the special supplemental programs for
women, infants and children, congregate meal programs, and home-delivered meal
programs.

"High-risk area" means any county or urban area where a significant
percentage or number of those potentially eligible for food assistance
programs are not participating in such programs.

(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)