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...ob and family services shall act as the single state agency to administer and supervise the administration of Title IV-A programs. The Title IV-A state plan and amendments to the plan prepared under division (C) of this section are binding on Title IV-A administrative agencies. No Title IV-A administrative agency may establish, by rule or otherwise, a policy governing a Title IV-A program that is inconsistent with a ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided by the law enacted by the general assembly or executive order issued by the governor establishing the Title IV-A program, a Title IV-A program identified under division (A)(4)(c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h) of section 5101.80 of the Revised Code shall provide benefits and services that are not "assistance" as defined in 45 C.F.R. 260.31(a) and are benefits and services that 45 C.F.R. ...

...provide funding for innovative and promising prevention and intervention projects that meet one or more of the four purposes of the temporary assistance for needy families block grant as specified in 42 U.S.C. 601 and are for individuals with specific and multiple barriers to achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency and personal responsibility. The department of job and family services and the department of children...

...(A) The department of job and family services shall prepare and submit to the governor not later than the first day of November in each even-numbered year a TANF spending plan describing the anticipated spending of temporary assistance for needy families block grant funds for the upcoming state fiscal biennium. The report shall be prepared in such a manner as to facilitate the inclusion of the information contained i...

...red by section 5101.80 of the Revised Code to the United States secretary of health and human services, the department of job and family services shall submit the plan to all of the following members of the general assembly: (1) The president and minority leader of the senate; (2) The speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives; (3) The chairpersons and ranking minority members of the house and sen...

...uant to section 131.36 of the Revised Code, the director of budget and management may transfer to the Title IV-A reserve fund money appropriated for the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code and the prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code that is available at the end of a federal fiscal year after the appropriation is re...

... director of budget and management, the department of job and family services shall deposit federal funds received under Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C.A. 601, 110 Stat. 2113 (1996), into the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) federal fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The department shall use money in the fund for the Ohio works first program established under Chapter...

... as in section 5107.02 of the Revised Code, except that it also means a group provided benefits and services under the prevention, retention, and contingency program or the comprehensive case management and employment program. (2) "Fraudulent assistance" means assistance and services, including cash assistance, provided under the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107., or benefits and services pr...

...dividual otherwise ineligible for aid under Chapter 5107. or 5108. of the Revised Code or supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) because of paragraph (a) of 21 U.S.C. 862a is eligible for the aid or benefits if the individual meets all other eligibility requirements for the aid or benefits.

..., the department shall distribute, in a single payment, the funds appropriated that fiscal year for the program to the Ohio state set-aside committee of the federal emergency management agency or to a fiscal agent designated by the committee. The committee shall determine the amount of the appropriation to be allocated to each county, and the committee or its fiscal agent shall distribute the allocations to the count...

...ring for, rehabilitating, educating, housing, and providing assistance for victims of trafficking in persons. The office of the attorney general shall administer the fund.

...ns 5101.89 to 5101.899 of the Revised Code: (A) "Youth" means a person who is any of the following: (1) Less than eighteen years of age; (2) An emancipated young adult; (3) Is in the temporary or permanent custody of a public children services agency, a planned permanent living arrangement, or in the Title-IV-E-eligible care and placement responsibility of a juvenile court or other governmental agency that pr...

...d a youth and family ombudsmen office under the department of job and family services consisting of the following: (1) A family ombudsman, who shall be appointed by the governor, to investigate complaints made by adults; (2) A youth ombudsman, who shall be appointed by the governor with advice from the overcoming hurdles in Ohio youth advisory board, to investigate complaints made by youth and to advocate for the...

...complaints, consistent with state and federal law; (C) Provide an annual report to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, president of the senate, minority leadership of the house of representatives and senate, the director of job and family services, the director of children and youth, and representatives of the overcoming hurdles in Ohio youth advisory board.

...days after release of the annual report described under section 5101.892 of the Revised Code, the overcoming hurdles in Ohio youth advisory board shall provide an evaluation of the report to the governor and the youth ombudsman of the youth and family ombudsmen office.

...To the extent permitted by state or federal law, a representative of the youth and family ombudsmen office may report to an appropriate authority any suspected violation of state law discovered during the course of a complaint review.

...The department of job and family services shall be responsible for all administrative undertakings for the youth and family ombudsmen office, including the provision of offices, equipment, and supplies, as necessary.

... means any of the following: (1) A federal or state elective office or an elective office of a political subdivision of the state; (2) A position on a board or commission of the state that is appointed by the governor; (3) An office set forth in section 121.03, 121.04, or 121.05 of the Revised Code; (4) An office of the government of the United States that is appointed by the president of the United States.

...shall have access to the records of the department of children and youth and the department of job and family services that are necessary for the administration of sections 5101.89 to 5101.899 of the Revised Code and in the performance of its official duties, including any records maintained in the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code. The office has t...

...as in section 5101.26 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of job and family services, in consultation with representatives designated by the county commissioners association of Ohio and the Ohio job and family services directors association, shall establish an evaluation system that rates each county department of job and family services in terms of its success with helping public assistance recipients o...

...g as in section 959.07 of the Revised Code. (B) For a first or subsequent violation of division (B)(1) of section 959.07 of the Revised Code by a social service professional, the entity with responsibility for employment oversight of that social service professional, as applicable, shall at minimum issue a confidential written warning to the violator. The entity shall include in the warning an explanation of the vi...

...ce benefit program to the appropriate federal entity, the director of job and family services shall submit a copy of the waiver or state plan amendment to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the chairpersons of the relevant house of representatives and senate committees with jurisdiction over the subject matter of the waiver or state plan amendment.

...vering both of the following: (A) Imposing a penalty for unauthorized use of matching contributions; (B) Specifying the responsibilities of a fiduciary organization under an individual development account program established under section 329.12 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be consistent with section 404(h) of the "Social Security Act" as amended by the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconc...

...(A) Quarterly, the department of job and family services shall compile a report on public assistance programs in this state, including the following information: (1) Regarding the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the number of: (a) Accounts with high balances, as determined by the department; (b) Out-of-state transactions; (c) Transactions when the final amount processed was a whole dollar amoun...

...(A) of section 5101.27 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5101.63 or division (C)(2) of section 5101.631 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.