329.042 Participation in federal food stamp program.

The county department of job and family services shall certify public assistance and nonpublic assistance households eligible under the “Food Stamp Act of 1964,” 78 Stat. 703, 7 U.S.C.A. 2011, as amended, and federal and state regulations adopted pursuant to such act, to enable low-income households to participate in the food stamp program and thereby to purchase foods having a greater monetary value than is possible under public assistance standard allowances or other low-income budgets.

The county department of job and family services shall administer the distribution of food stamp benefits under the supervision of the department of job and family services. The benefits shall be distributed by a method approved by the department of job and family services in accordance with the “Food Stamp Act of 1964,” 78 Stat. 703, 7 U.S.C.A. 2011, as amended, and regulations issued thereunder.

The document referred to as the “authorization-to-participate card,” which shows the face value of the benefits an eligible household is entitled to receive on presentment of the document, shall be issued, immediately upon certification, to a household determined under division (C) of section 5101.54 of the Revised Code to be in immediate need of food assistance by being personally handed by a member of the staff of the county department of job and family services to the member of the household in whose name application was made for participation in the program or the authorized representative of such member of the household.

Effective Date: 09-05-2001