Title 46 — Welfare

A. Application for any form of assistance or service under this title shall be made to a department in this state as specified by the program. The application shall be in writing or reduced to writing on forms prescribed by the state department and shall include a statement subsc…

The director shall adopt rules with respect to the time in which a recipient must notify the department of a change in circumstances affecting the recipient's eligibility. In adopting such rules the director shall consider and comply with federal regulations concerning notice of …

A. When the department receives an application for assistance or service under this title, an investigation and record of the application shall promptly be made, and other information required by the rules of the state department shall be obtained. B. The state department and the…

A. Upon completion of an investigation the local office of the department shall decide, according to the policies and rules of the state department, whether the applicant is eligible for the assistance or service applied for and shall determine the amount of assistance or service…

A. If the local office of the department does not act with reasonable promptness on an application, or if the application is denied wholly or in part by the local office of the department, the applicant or recipient may appeal to the state department in the manner and form prescr…

A. When an assistance award is made, the certification to the department of administration provided for by section 46-204 shall, until modified, suspended or discontinued by order of the state department, or until the death of recipient, be the authority to the department of admi…

A. In no event shall assistance paid any recipient under this title be an amount which, when added to income from all other sources, causes the total of income and grant to exceed the need of the recipient under uniform assistance plans for each program as determined by the state…

Cash assistance paid to any recipient pursuant to section 46-292, which when added to nonexempt income from all other sources, shall not be less than thirty-six per cent of the 1992 federal poverty level adjusted for family size and factors provided in section 46-207, subsections…

Assistance granted under this title is not transferable or assignable at law or in equity, and none of the money paid or payable under this title shall be subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment or other legal process, or to the operation of any bankruptcy or insolven…

A. Any recipient of assistance granted under this title, except temporary assistance for needy families, desiring to reside outside the state for a period of not to exceed thirty days shall execute a form provided by the state department. Any recipient receiving temporary assista…

Absence while in the military service of the state or the United States shall not be deemed to interrupt residence in this state as provided in this title, if a domicile is not acquired without the state.

A. All assistance or service grants made under this title shall be reconsidered by the state department as frequently as required by the rules of the department. After further investigation as the department deems necessary, the amount of assistance or service may be changed or a…

All assistance or service granted under this title shall be deemed granted and held subject to any law amending or repealing any provision of this title, and no recipient shall have a claim for compensation, or otherwise, by reason of recipient's assistance or service being affec…

A. If at any time while receiving assistance the recipient of such assistance knowingly acquires any property or receives any increase in income or property, or both, in excess of income or property declared at the time of determination or redetermination of eligibility, or if th…

No person shall charge or receive any fee for representing an applicant for or recipient of assistance or service in any proceedings under this title, except fees prescribed by the department, but the provisions of this section shall not apply to representation of an applicant or…

A. A person commits welfare fraud if the person knowingly obtains by means of a false statement or representation, by impersonation or by other fraudulent device any of the following: 1. Assistance or service to which the person is not entitled. 2. Assistance or service greater t…

A person violating a provision of this title for which no penalty is specifically provided is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.

A. Notwithstanding section 13-3418 and if the person agrees to random drug testing, a person who is convicted after August 22, 1996 of a felony offense that has as an element of the offense the use or possession of a controlled substance as defined in 21 United States Code sectio…

1. Plan, prepare and develop the infrastructure necessary to implement a produce incentive program for supplemental nutrition assistance program enrollees to purchase eligible Arizona-grown fruits and vegetables at SNAP-authorized farmers markets, farm stands, mobile markets, com…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Agent" means a community based organization that is contracted by the department to take applications, determine eligibility and provide short-term services to low income persons through the use of federal and state moni…

The department, through its agent, shall administer short-term crisis services. Short-term crisis services include: 1. Emergency shelter to eligible persons. 2. Rent or mortgage assistance to prevent homelessness. 3. Utility assistance for eligible persons with a current or antic…

To qualify for short-term crisis services, an applicant shall prove that the applicant meets all of the following requirements: 1. The applicant is a resident of this state at the time of application. 2. The applicant is experiencing a short-term crisis that will cause homelessne…

A decision denying, reducing or terminating short-term crisis services is appealable pursuant to title 41, chapter 6, article 6 and title 41, chapter 14.

The department or its agent shall not provide short-term crisis services to or on behalf of an applicant who: 1. Has refused employment or training for employment in the thirty days before the application. 2. Is receiving services from the temporary assistance for needy families …

A. The department or its agent shall provide short-term crisis services to alleviate or prevent homelessness through payments to either of the following: 1. Emergency shelters. 2. Subsidize delinquent rent or mortgage payments. B. The department or its agent shall provide short-t…

The department or its agent shall identify individuals who are victims of domestic violence at the time of application for or during the receipt of temporary assistance for needy families. At any time individuals shall be given the chance to identify themselves as victims of dome…

A. The mandatory state supplemental payments program provided for in this section may be administered directly by the department, or by the federal government under agreement with the department whereby the department pays to the federal government the cost of supplemental paymen…

No payment shall be made under this article to or on behalf of any individual who is not a resident of the state of Arizona or who refuses to apply for or accept supplemental security income for which he is eligible under title XVI of the social security act, as amended.

A. Cash assistance shall be administered by the department of economic security subject to chapter 1 of this title and article 1 of this chapter. The total amount of state monies that may be spent in any fiscal year by the department of economic security for temporary assistance …

A. A family without a dependent child in the household may not receive cash assistance. B. Cash assistance may be given under this title to any dependent child and member of a needy family: 1. Who has established residence in Arizona at the time of application and who is either: …

A person receiving assistance under this article shall not at the same time receive any other public assistance under this title except by authorization of the state department.

A. A needy family is ineligible for a cash assistance grant awarded under this article, except in case of hardship or as provided in subsection G of this section, if any of the following applies: 1. The needy family includes a head of household or the spouse of the head of househ…

A. If a recipient of public assistance has a person who is legally responsible for that person's support and who is presently able to reimburse the department for public assistance provided, the department, through the attorney general or county attorney, shall proceed in the fol…

A. Except as provided in subsection B, an assistance unit headed by an unmarried person under eighteen years of age is not eligible for assistance benefits. B. Subsection A does not apply to unwed minor parents in any of the following situations: 1. The applicant has no living or…

A. A head of household who receives cash assistance pursuant to this article, or on behalf of another person, and any person authorized by the head of household shall not conduct an electronic benefit transfer card transaction at any of the following: 1. A liquor store. 2. A comm…

A. The department shall send each recipient who requests two replacement cards within a twelve-month period a letter informing the recipient that another request will initiate an investigation by the department to determine whether there is fraud. If a third-party vendor is admin…

A. The department shall post on the department's website a spending report of the supplemental nutrition assistance program and temporary assistance for needy families benefit. The spending report shall include all of the following: 1. The dollar amount and number of transactions…

A. At the time an applicant's employability is assessed during the initial application for assistance, the department shall determine whether the applicant should be offered services under the diversion option rather than long-term cash assistance. The assessment shall consider t…

A. As a condition of eligibility or continuing eligibility for cash assistance, all recipients shall engage in work activities that are established in this article and determined appropriate by the department. An individual with a disability shall engage in work activities as req…

A. The department shall impose a series of graduated sanctions as described in subsection D of this section for any noncompliance with: 1. The child support enforcement efforts required by section 46-292, subsection D unless good cause is established as provided in section 46-292…

A. The department shall begin preparing a request for proposals for privatization throughout this state for case management and employment services necessary to operate the JOBS program. If the federal government: 1. Reauthorizes welfare reform legislation on or before July 1, 20…

If the court determines that an obligor is delinquent in paying support, the court may issue an order requiring the obligor to: 1. Pay support in accordance with a payment plan. 2. Participate in work activities if the obligor is subject to a payment plan and is not incapacitated…

A. A financial instrument known as an individual development account is established. An individual development account shall be in the name of an individual account holder who is a member of an assistance unit that is receiving cash assistance benefits. B. Deposits to an individu…

A. With monies appropriated for temporary assistance for needy families the department of economic security shall provide funding to the department of health services for perinatal substance abuse treatment and services for persons whose family income does not exceed two hundred …

A. The department of economic security may provide monies appropriated for temporary assistance for needy families to the department of child safety to provide substance abuse treatment pursuant to title 8, chapter 4, article 13. Treatment services for which these monies may be u…

The department shall develop and implement a statewide program to provide food assistance through food banks for welfare to work and low income families with priority consideration for temporary assistance for needy families cash assistance recipients. The department shall establ…

Beginning in 2017, each employment service contractor shall report semiannually to the director, the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate and the governor, on or before December 31 and June 30 of each year, the percentage of persons placed in jobs …

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Person aggrieved" means any person who has not been permitted freedom of choice of a practitioner in eye care services when he is entitled to receive such eye care services, or the holder of a license or a certificate to…

Any person entitled to receive eye care under any program supported by funds of the state or any political subdivision thereof, shall have full freedom to choose a practitioner in the field of eye care to provide the examination, care or treatment for which the person is eligible…

A. No person working in any program supported by state funds nor any state agency or agency of any political subdivision thereof, or any employee thereof, shall hinder or prohibit any person who is entitled to eye care which may be rendered by either an optometrist or a physician…