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...County departments of job and family services shall establish and administer alternative work activities for minor heads of households and adults participating in Ohio works first. In establishing alternative work activities, county departments are not limited by the restrictions Title IV-A imposes on work activities. The following are examples of alternative work activities that a county department may establish: (...

...(A) (1) No participant of Ohio works first shall be assigned to a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity when the employer removes or discharges a person, for the purpose of substituting the participant in the person's place, in any of the following circumstances: (a) The person is already employed as a regular full-time or part-time employee of the employer; (b) The person has been e...

...Subject to the availability of funds and except as limited by section 5107.58 of the Revised Code, county departments of job and family services shall provide for participants of Ohio works first placed in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity to receive support services the county department determines to be necessary. County departments may provide for applicants of Ohio works first...

...Except for a participant of Ohio works first who is assigned to a work activity established under section 5107.52 or division (A) of section 5107.60 of the Revised Code, credit for work performed by a participant in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity does not constitute remuneration for the purpose of Chapter 124., 144., or 145. of the Revised Code and services performed by the part...

...(A) The county directors of job and family services shall implement and enforce the requirements of sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code. State and local agencies shall cooperate with county departments of job and family services to the maximum extent possible in the implementation of those sections. (B) In employing persons to administer and supervise work activities, developmental activities, and altern...

...If the United States secretary of health and human services informs the department of job and family services that implementation of sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code jeopardizes federal funding for the Ohio works first program, the department shall ensure that county departments of job and family services require minor heads of household and adults participating in Ohio works first to participate in wo...

...A county department of job and family services, at times it determines, may conduct assessments of assistance groups participating in Ohio works first to determine whether any members of the group are in need of other assistance or services provided by the county department or other private or government entities. Assessments may include the following: (A) Whether any member of the assistance group has a substance ...

...Each county department of job and family services shall do all of the following in accordance with rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code: (A) Identify members of assistance groups applying for and participating in Ohio works first who have been subjected to domestic violence by utilizing the domestic violence screening process established in the rules; (B) Refer a member who has been subjected...

...When utilizing the domestic violence screening process established in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code to identify members of assistance groups applying for and participating in Ohio works first who have been subjected to domestic violence, a county department of job and family services shall do both of the following: (A) Where available, rely on records from any of the following: (1) ...

...A member of an assistance group applying for or participating in Ohio works first who is referred to counseling or supportive services pursuant to division (B) of section 5107.71 of the Revised Code may decline the counseling, supportive services, or both.

...When a county department of job and family services identifies a member of an assistance group applying for or participating in Ohio works first who has been subjected to domestic violence, the county department shall provide information about the member to the department of job and family services. The department shall maintain the information for federal reporting and statistical analysis purposes only.

...A county department of job and family services shall issue a member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first a waiver that exempts the member from a requirement of the Ohio works first program if the county department determines that the member has been subjected to domestic violence and requiring compliance with the requirement would make it more difficult for the member to escape domestic violence o...

...A county department of job and family services that refuses to issue a waiver under section 5107.714 of the Revised Code for a member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first shall provide the member a written explanation for the refusal. The written explanation shall be provided to the member in a manner protecting the member's confidentiality. The member may appeal the refusal pursuant to sect...

...A member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first may decline a waiver that would otherwise be issued under section 5107.714 of the Revised Code and may terminate at any time a waiver that has been issued under that section.

...The department of job and family services shall monitor county departments of job and family services' implementation of sections 5107.71 to 5107.716 of the Revised Code to ensure that the county departments comply with those sections.

...Each county department of job and family services shall refer a parent participating in Ohio works first whose minor child is a member of the parent's assistance group to any private or public agency, medical doctor, clinic, or other person or organization which can advise the parent on methods of controlling the size and spacing of the parent's family, consistent with the parent's religious and moral views. A count...

...Cash assistance under Ohio works first is inalienable whether by way of assignment, charge, or otherwise and exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, and other like process.

...As used in this section, "erroneous payments" means payments of cash assistance made under Ohio works first to assistance groups not eligible to receive the assistance, including assistance paid as a result of misrepresentation or fraud and assistance paid due to an error by a member of an assistance group or a county department of job and family services. Except as provided in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of...

...With each cash assistance payment provided under Ohio works first to an assistance group residing in a county in which the computer system known as support enforcement tracking system is in operation, the department of job and family services shall include a notice of the amount of support payments due a member of the assistance group that a child support enforcement agency collected and paid to the departme...

...The director of job and family services, using information provided by employers under sections 3121.891 and 3121.892 of the Revised Code, shall determine quarterly whether individuals who have ceased to participate in Ohio works first have entered the workforce.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "County family services planning committee" means the county family services planning committee established under section 329.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "Prevention, retention, and contingency program" means the program established by this chapter and funded in part with federal funds provided under Title IV-A. (C) "Title IV-A" means Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 6...

...There is hereby established the prevention, retention, and contingency program. The department of job and family services shall administer the program, as long as federal funds are provided for the program, in accordance with Title IV-A, federal regulations, state law, the state Title IV-A plan submitted to the United States secretary of health and human services under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, and amendme...

...Under the prevention, retention, and contingency program, each county department of job and family services shall do both of the following in accordance with the statement of policies the county department develops under section 5108.04 of the Revised Code: (A) Provide benefits and services that individuals need to overcome immediate barriers to achieving or maintaining self sufficiency and personal responsibil...

...Each county department of job and family services shall adopt a written statement of policies governing the prevention, retention, and contingency program for the county. The statement of policies shall be adopted not later than October 1, 2003, and shall be updated at least every two years thereafter. A county department may amend its statement of policies to modify, terminate, and establish new policies. A cou...

...In adopting a statement of policies under section 5108.04 of the Revised Code for the county's prevention, retention, and contingency program, each county department of job and family services shall do all of the following: (A) Establish or specify all of the following: (1) Benefits and services to be provided under the program that are allowable uses of federal Title IV-A funds under 42 U.S.C. 601 and 604(a), exce...