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...(A) The Ohio general assembly hereby states the following beliefs with regard to the Ohio works first program: (1) That the first priority for minor heads of household and adults participating in the program is to work, which includes keeping an employer's schedule and satisfying the employer's work requirements, and to develop marketable skills. (2) That many minor heads of household and adults participating in th...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Adult" means an individual who is not a minor child. (B) "Assistance group" means a group of individuals treated as a unit for purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of assistance provided under Ohio works first. (C) "Custodian" means an individual who has legal custody, as defined in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code, of a minor child or comparable status ove...

...There is hereby established the Ohio works first 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 Title IV-A state plan submitted to the United States secretary of health and human services under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, amendments to the plan, and...

...As used in this section, "cost-of-living adjustment" means the cost-of-living adjustment made by the United States commissioner of social security under 42 U.S.C. 415(i) for benefits provided under Title II of the "Social Security Act of 1935." The department of job and family services shall make all cash assistance payments for Ohio works first from funds appropriated for the Ohio works first program. The am...

...The director of job and family services shall adopt rules to implement this chapter. The rules shall be consistent with Title IV-A, Title IV-D, federal regulations, state law, the Title IV-A state plan submitted to the United States secretary of health and human services under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, amendments to the plan, and waivers granted by the United States secretary. Rules governing eligibility, ...

...ipate in Ohio works first even though a public children services agency removes the assistance group's minor children from the assistance group's home due to abuse, neglect, or dependency if the agency does both of the following: (a) Notifies the county department of job and family services at the time the agency removes the children that it believes the children will be able to return to the assistance group with...

...(A) A specified relative of a minor child residing with the minor child is not required to be included in the minor child's assistance group. To the extent permitted by rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code governing assistance group composition requirements and except as provided in division (B) of this section, the specified relative may choose to be included in the minor child's assistance group...

...An assistance group seeking to participate in the Ohio works first program shall apply to a county department of job and family services using an application containing information the director of job and family services requires pursuant to rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code and any additional information the county department requires. If cash assistance under the program is to be paid by...

...A county department of job and family services shall provide assistance groups applying for or undergoing a redetermination of eligibility for Ohio works first written and oral information about both of the following: (A) The availability of counseling and supportive services pursuant to division (B) of section 5107.71 of the Revised Code for members of the assistance group who have been subjected to domestic...

...e child support enforcement agency and public children services agency will provide to the assistance group pursuant to a plan of cooperation entered into under section 307.983 of the Revised Code; (8) Other provisions designed to assist the assistance group in achieving self sufficiency and personal responsibility; (9) Procedures for assessing whether responsibilities are being satisfied and whether the contr...

...eligible for all of the following: (1) Publicly funded child care in accordance with division (A)(3) of section 5104.30 of the Revised Code; (2) Support services in accordance with section 5107.66 of the Revised Code; (3) To the extent permitted by the "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938," 52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C. 201, as amended, to participate in work activities, developmental activities, and alternative work ...

...Before a county department of job and family services sanctions an assistance group under section 5107.16 of the Revised Code, the state department of job and family services shall provide the assistance group written notice of the sanction in accordance with rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code. The written notice shall include a provision printed in bold type face that informs the assistance grou...

...If an assistance group requests a state hearing under division (B) of section 5101.35 of the Revised Code not later than fifteen calendar days after the department of job and family services mails the assistance group a written notice of a sanction under section 5107.161 of the Revised Code, a county department of job and family services shall postpone imposition of the sanction until the date a final decision is ren...

...Both of the following must occur before an assistance group may resume participation in Ohio works first following a sanction under section 5107.16 of the Revised Code: (A) The assistance group must reapply under section 5107.12 of the Revised Code if any of the following apply: (1) It is the assistance group's regularly scheduled time for an eligibility redetermination; (2) If the sanction was imposed under ...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) of this section, an assistance group is ineligible to participate in Ohio works first if the assistance group includes an individual who has participated in the program for thirty-six months as any of the following: an adult head of household, minor head of household, or spouse of an adult head of household or minor head of household. The time limit ...

...As used in this section, "support" means child support, spousal support, and support for a spouse or a former spouse. Participation in Ohio works first constitutes an assignment to the department of job and family services of any rights members of an assistance group have to support from any other person. The rights to support assigned to the department pursuant to this section constitute an obligation of the...

...As used in this section, "caretaker" means the parent of a minor child or a relative acting in the parent's place. Unless good cause for failure or refusal exists as determined pursuant to rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code, the caretaker of a minor child shall cooperate, if the caretaker is a member of the child's assistance group, in establishing the child's paternity and establishing, modifyi...

...es, the department of youth services, a public children services agency, a private child placing agency, or a private noncustodial agency that is maintained by a person age eighteen or older who assumes responsibility for the care and control of a minor parent, pregnant minor, or child of a minor parent or provides the minor parent, pregnant minor, or child of a minor parent supportive services, including counseling,...

...ection, "transitional child care" means publicly funded child care provided under division (A)(3) of section 5104.34 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section: (1) Each member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first is ineligible to participate in the program for six payment months if a county department of job and family services determines that a member of the...

...(A) As used in this section and in sections 5107.281 to 5107.287 of the Revised Code: (1) "Cash assistance payment" means the monthly amount an assistance group is eligible to receive under Ohio works first. (2) "Parent" means the parent, guardian, custodian, or specified relative with charge or care of a learnfare participant. (3) "Participating student" means a participant of Ohio works first who is subject to t...

...A participant of Ohio works first who is enrolled in a school district in a county that is participating in the learnfare program and is not younger than age six but not older than age nineteen shall participate in the learnfare program unless one of the following is the case: (A) The participant is not yet eligible for enrollment in first grade; (B) The participant is subject to the LEAP program; (C) The pa...

...The first time during a school year that a participating student fails to comply with the learnfare program's school attendance requirement, the county department of job and family services shall send the parent a notice warning that, if the student fails a second or subsequent time in the school year to comply with the school attendance requirement, the assistance group's cash assistance payment for the second month...

...The county department of job and family services may provide an incentive established by the county department to the participating student or student's assistance group, whichever is appropriate, if the parent or, if the student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student, consents to the release of the student's school attendance records and the student complies with the learnfare school attendance requiremen...

...The county department of job and family services shall require the parent of each participating student, or, if the student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student to consent to release of the student's school attendance records. If the parent or participating student refuses to consent, the county department shall reduce the assistance group's cash assistance payment for the month immediately following the...

...Notwithstanding a reduction in a cash assistance payment under section 5107.282 or 5107.284 of the Revised Code, all members of the assistance group who are otherwise eligible to participate in Ohio works first shall continue to be considered participants of the program.