Title 47, Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions

(a) The department shall provide cash assistance to families that establish eligibility based on a determination of need that considers the family's available income, assets, and other resources, as established by the department in regulation. Each dependent child in the family i…

(a) The department may offer a lump-sum diversion payment in place of ongoing cash assistance to an adult applicant who applies under AS 47.27.020 if the adult applicant is job ready and is determined to need only short-term financial assistance and self-sufficiency services to m…

(a) If an applicant under AS 47.27.020 is not married, is under the age of 18, and has not been previously emancipated under AS 09.55.590, the applicant must (1) live in a home maintained by the applicant's parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative, unless the applicant est…

(a) A participant in the Alaska temporary assistance program shall cooperate with the department, or its designee, to develop and sign a family self-sufficiency plan that includes (1) the steps the family will take towards the self-sufficiency of the family; (2) the self-sufficie…

(a) An Alaska temporary assistance program participant shall, after the participant's family has received a cumulative total of 24 months of cash assistance or sooner if assigned to do so by the department, participate in work activities as assigned by the department or its desig…

(a) An Alaska temporary assistance program applicant is considered to have assigned to the state, through the child support services agency of the Department of Revenue, all rights to accrued and continuing child support, from all sources, that is due for the support of any indiv…

Cash assistance granted under this chapter is inalienable by assignment or transfer and is exempt from garnishment, levy, or execution as is provided in AS 09.38.

(a) The department may contract with or award grants to qualified entities in the state to administer an Alaska temporary assistance program or a distinct part of the Alaska temporary assistance program. The department may establish standards for the administration of services un…

(a) The department shall coordinate with other state agencies that provide assistance, benefits, or services to applicants that are eligible for and to participants in the Alaska temporary assistance program in order to facilitate the application for and delivery of assistance, b…

The department may establish cooperative agreements with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Department of Education and Early Development, and Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, and with other public or private sector organizations for th…

In the administration of this chapter, the department shall cooperate with the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and shall take actions necessary to comply with the requirements of federal law to obtain public assistance block grants or other …

(a) The department may coordinate only with the following Alaska Native organizations, as designated under federal law, in the development of family assistance programs: (1) Arctic Slope Native Association; (2) Kawerak, Inc.; (3) Maniilaq Association; (4) Association of Village C…

(a) An applicant or participant who receives a determination from the department that denies, limits, or modifies the cash assistance, diversion payment, or self-sufficiency services provided under this chapter may request a hearing before the office of administrative hearings (A…

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, the department shall reduce the amount of cash assistance provided to the family of an Alaska temporary assistance program applicant or participant who, without good cause, fails to comply with a condition of the family self-sufficie…

(a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this chapter, and in addition to grants awarded under AS 47.27.050, the Department of Health may award and administer Alaska Native family assistance grants in accordance with this section. Unless specified otherwise in this section, …

(a) The department may develop a regional public assistance program for the administration of this chapter in order to provide state public assistance in a uniform and cost-effective manner in a region of this state if an Alaska Native organization is authorized to implement a fe…

In this chapter, (1) “Alaska Native family assistance grant” means a grant under AS 47.27.200; (2) “Alaska Native family assistance program” means a program funded in part by a grant under AS 47.27.200; (3) “cash assistance” means assistance for basic living expenses provided und…

This chapter may be cited as the Alaska temporary assistance program.