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...es, and is responsible for the office's operations. The department of education and workforce, chancellor of higher education, and director of the governor's office of workforce transformation shall assist the director of job and family services with leadership and organizational support for the office. (B) Not later than January 1, 2015, the office shall submit to the governor recommendations for all of the follo...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the support services federal operating fund. The fund shall consist of federal funds the department of job and family services receives and that the director of job and family services determines are appropriate for deposit into the fund. Money in the fund shall be used to pay the federal share of both of the following: (A) The department's costs for computer projects; ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the support services state operating fund. The fund shall consist of payments made to the fund from other appropriation items by intrastate transfer voucher. Money in the fund shall be used to pay for both of the following: (A) The department of job and family services' costs for computer projects; (B) The operating costs of the parts of the department that provide gene...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the human services projects fund. The fund may consist of intrastate agency transfers, nonfederal grants, and other similar revenue sources. The department of job and family services shall use the fund to support program and administrative expenses related to the implementation of human services initiatives within the department.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the ODJFS audit settlements and contingency fund. The fund shall be used to pay for required audits, settlements, contingencies, and other related expenses. As necessary for the purposes of the fund, the director of job and family services may request the director of budget and management to transfer money from any of the funds used by the department of job and family ser...

...If the department of job and family services receives money from a refund or reconciliation related to the medicaid program, the department shall transfer the money to the department of medicaid for deposit into the refunds and reconciliation fund created under section 5162.65 of the Revised Code.

...The director of job and family services may require any of the employees of the department of job and family services who may be charged with custody or control of any public money or property or who is required to give bond, to give a bond, properly conditioned, in a sum to be fixed by the director which when approved by the director, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The cost of such bonds, wh...

...rns the day-to-day staff procedures and operations of the department or financial and operational matters between the department and another government entity or a private entity receiving a grant from the department, unless the statute authorizing the rule requires that it be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; (b) The statute authorizing the rule requires that the rule be adopted in acco...

...The director of job and family services may expend funds appropriated or available to the department of job and family services from public or private entities, including other governmental agencies; public or private institutions, organizations, agencies, and corporations; and individuals. For purposes of this section, the director may enter into contracts or agreements with public and private entities and make gran...

...(A) This section establishes the order of priority to be followed by the department of job and family services when distributing funds for the purpose of providing family planning services, including funds the department receives through Title XX of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2337 (1974), 42 U.S.C. 1397, as amended, and funds the department receives through Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 110 Stat. ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Entity" includes an agency, board, commission, or department of the state or a political subdivision of the state; a private, nonprofit entity; a school district; a private school; or a public or private institution of higher education. (2) "Federal financial participation" means the federal government's share of expenditures made by an entity in implementing a program administ...

...The foundation grant fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Money the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth receives from private foundations in support of pilot projects that promote exemplary programs for enhancing the health, safety, and well-being of children and families shall be credited to the fund. The applicable department may expend the money on such projects, ...

...The department of job and family services or department of children and youth may enter into contracts to maximize federal revenue without the expenditure of state money. In selecting private entities with which to contract, the applicable department shall engage in a request for proposals process. The applicable department, subject to the approval of the controlling board, may also directly enter into contracts with...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 5101.161 and 5101.162 of the Revised Code: (1) "Disability financial assistance" means the financial assistance program established under former Chapter 5115. of the Revised Code. (2) "Supplemental nutrition assistance program" means the program administered by the department of job and family services pursuant to section 5101.54 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio works firs...

...Prior to the sixteenth day of May annually, the department of job and family services shall certify to the board of county commissioners of each county the amount estimated by the department to be needed in the following state fiscal year to meet the county share, as determined under division (B) of section 5101.16 of the Revised Code, of public assistance expenditures. Each January, the board shall appropriate the a...

...Subject to available federal funds and appropriations made by the general assembly, the department of job and family services may, at its sole discretion, use available federal funds to reimburse county expenditures for county administration of the supplemental nutrition assistance program or medicaid (excluding administrative expenditures for transportation services covered by the medicaid program) even though...

...As used in this section, "maintenance of effort" means qualified state expenditures as defined in 42 U.S.C. 609(a)(7)(B)(i). The department of job and family services may increase a county's share of public assistance expenditures determined under division (B) of section 5101.16 of the Revised Code if the United States secretary of health and human services requires an increase in the state's maintenance of effort b...

...In determining the need of any person under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code, the first eighty-five dollars plus one-half of the excess over eighty-five dollars of payments made to or in behalf of any person for or with respect to any month under Title I or II of the "Economic Opportunity Act of 1964," 78 Stat. 508, 42 U.S.C.A. 2701, as amended, shall not be regarded as income or resources. No payments made under su...

...When the director of job and family services adopts rules under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code regarding income requirements for the Ohio works first program, the director shall determine what payments shall be regarded or disregarded. In making this determination, the director shall consider: (A) The source of the payment; (B) The amount of the payment; (C) The purpose for which the payment was made; (D) Wh...

...(A) As used in this section and section 5101.182 of the Revised Code, "public assistance" means any or all of the following: (1) Ohio works first; (2) Prevention, retention, and contingency; (3) Disability financial assistance provided prior to December 31, 2017, under former Chapter 5115. of the Revised Code; (4) General assistance provided prior to July 17, 1995, under former Chapter 5113. of the Revised Code. ...

...As part of the procedure for the determination of overpayment to a recipient of public assistance pursuant to section 5101.181 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services may semiannually, at times determined jointly by the auditor of state and the tax commissioner, furnish to the tax commissioner in computer format the name and social security number of each individual who receives public assi...

...(A) The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth, in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, may adopt rules under which county family services agencies shall take action to recover the cost of the following benefits and services available under programs administered by the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth: (1) Benefits or s...

...(A) The director of job and family services shall work with the tax commissioner to collect overpayments of assistance under Chapter 5107., former Chapter 5115., former Chapter 5113., or section 5101.54 of the Revised Code from refunds of state income taxes for taxable year 1992 and thereafter that are payable to the recipients of such overpayments. Any overpayment of assistance, whether obtained by fraud or misrepr...

...(A) As used in this section of the Revised Code: (1) "Local area" has the same meaning as in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Chief elected official" has the same meaning as "chief elected official or officials" as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Grantee" means the chief elected officials of a local area. (4) "Local board" has the same meaning as in section 6301.01 of the Revised Cod...

...As the director of the state agency for the implementation of several workforce programs, the director of job and family services may enter into agreements with local boards, as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code, and other OhioMeansJobs center partners for the purpose of implementing the requirements of section 121 of the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3151.