The Art of Welfare Administration (2019)
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56 pages
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: General Assistance Overview
- The Basic Legal Duty
- Humanitarian Purpose
- Who Makes Local Welfare Decisions
- Availability
Chapter 2: Guidelines
- A Constitutional and Statutory
- Guideline Contents
- Adoption and Amendments
Chapter 3: The Application
- Welfare Administrator’s Responsibilities at Time of Application
- Responsibility of Each Applicant and Recipient
- Continuity
- Withdrawn Applications
- Confidentiality
- Application for Assistance Flow Chart
Chapter 4: Determination of Eligibility
- Verification
- Determine Need as a Whole
- The Basic Formula
- What Counts as Income and Assets?
- Effects of Other Assistance
- Related and Non-Related Households
- Residency
Chapter 5: Level of Assistance
- Form of Assistance
- Emergency Assistance
- On-going Assistance
Chapter 6: The Decision
- Timing
- Written Notice of Decision
Chapter 7: Conditions
Chapter 8: Disqualification
- Failure to Comply with Guidelines
- Voluntary Quit Without Good Cause
- Qualified State Assistance Reduction
- Transfer of Property
Chapter 9: Fair Hearings
- Request for Hearing
- Scheduling the Hearing
- Continuing Assistance
- Conducting the Hearing
- Fair Hearing Decision
Chapter 10: Recovery
- Liens on Property
- Legally Liable Relatives
- Repayment by Assisted Person
- Recovery from Town of Residence
- Recovery Against Judgments and Settlements
- Work Programs as Offsets
Chapter 11: Miscellaneous Issues
- Minors Applying for Assistance
- Burials
- Applying Welfare Rental Payments to a Landlord’s Delinquent Accounts
- 'Dumping'
- Personal Liability of Welfare Administration
- Model Guidelines
- The Welfare Budget
Appendix A: Excerpts from RSA Chapter 165, Aid to Assisted Person, and RSA Chapter 167, Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children
Appendix B: Model Fair Hearing Rules of Procedure
Appendix C: Fair Hearings Information for the Applicant