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90_HB0953
305 ILCS 5/4-7 from Ch. 23, par. 4-7
Amends the Public Aid Code. Requires that AFDC
applicants and recipients authorize home visits in connection
with determining initial and continuing eligibility for aid.
Requires the Department of Human Services, as the successor
agency to the Department of Public Aid for the purpose of
administering the AFDC program, to establish a program for
conducting home visits and using information from other
sources. Authorizes the Department to delegate the provision
of services to other appropriate agencies.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Public Aid Code by changing
2 Section 4-7.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
6 changing Section 4-7 as follows:
7 (305 ILCS 5/4-7) (from Ch. 23, par. 4-7)
8 Sec. 4-7. Home visits, interviews, or communications.
9 Each family receiving aid shall be interviewed in person or
10 communicated with, in a home visit or by other appropriate
11 means, in investigations of applications for aid and at least
12 once in each subsequent 12 month period to ascertain
13 continuing need for such aid and to provide the child and his
14 parents or relatives with such service and guidance as will
15 strengthen family life and aid them in utilizing to the
16 maximum their capacities for self-care, self-support, and
17 responsible citizenship. However, the Illinois Department
18 shall determine those assistance units where the possibility
19 for public assistance fraud or abuse is greatest, or where
20 there is the possibility of frequent changes in need or
21 circumstances, or where any child in the home may be an
22 abused or neglected child as determined by the Department of
23 Children and Family Services under the Abused and Neglected
24 Child Reporting Act, as now or hereafter amended, and shall
25 by rule provide for more frequent interviews of or
26 communications with those assistance units and for the
27 implementation of necessary remedies under Sections 4-8 and
28 4-9 for those assistance units. As a condition of
29 eligibility for aid, an applicant for or recipient of aid
30 must (i) authorize a home visit in connection with the
31 initial determination of eligibility and, in connection with
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1 a determination of continuing eligibility, at least once in
2 every 12-month period thereafter as long as the family
3 continues to receive aid and (ii) allow a representative of
4 the Illinois Department access to the applicant's or
5 recipient's home for the purpose of conducting the home
6 visit. The Illinois Department shall adopt rules
7 establishing a program for conducting home visits as required
8 under this Section and for using appropriate information from
9 other sources in determining the occasion and frequency of
10 home visits. The program shall provide for the Illinois
11 Department's delegation to other appropriate agencies of the
12 authority to provide appropriate services to the family,
13 based on information received by the Illinois Department
14 during the course of a home visit or other interview or
15 communication or from other sources. Written reports of such
16 interviews or communications and any related remedies shall
17 become a part of the record in every case.
18 (Source: P.A. 85-1209.)