Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 5107 · 64 active provisions
(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…
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…
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 he…
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 pa…
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, amend…
(A) As used in this section: (1) "Countable income," "gross earned income," and "gross unearned income" have the meanings established in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code. (2) "Federal poverty guidelines" has the same meaning as in section 5101.46 of the Revised Code, except that references to a p…
(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 t…
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 inf…
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…
(A) An assistance group is ineligible to participate in Ohio works first unless the following enter into a written self-sufficiency contract with the county department of job and family services: (1) Each adult member of the assistance group;(2) The assistance group's minor head of household.(B) A self-sufficiency cont…
(A) If a member of an assistance group fails or refuses, without good cause, to comply in full with a provision of a self-sufficiency contract entered into under section 5107.14 of the Revised Code, a county department of job and family services shall sanction the assistance group as follows: (1) For a first failure or…
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…
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…
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 regularl…
(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 o…
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…
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 membe…
(A) As used in this section: (1) "Adult-supervised living arrangement" means a family setting approved, licensed, or certified by the department of job and family services, the department of mental health and addiction services, the department of developmental disabilities, the department of youth services, a public ch…
(A) As used in this section, "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…
(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 parti…
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 fo…
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 th…
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'…
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…
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.