Title 46, Welfare

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…

Where any conflict with the federal vocational rehabilitation act, the federal Randolph-Sheppard act, or the federal social security act shall occur in this title, the federal legislation shall control.

A. Sponsors, except military bases and federally recognized Indian tribes, receiving federal child care food program monies from the department of education shall register with the department of education in order to receive those monies, unless they are public schools, child car…

A. A permanent Arizona special supplemental food program fund for women, infants and children is established in the department of health services consisting of monies appropriated from the state general fund. B. Monies in the Arizona special supplemental food program fund shall b…

It is the public policy of this state that parents shall be responsible for the support of their dependent children in order to relieve or avoid the burden often borne by the general citizenry through public assistance programs. The existing remedies pertaining to family desertio…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Absent parent" means the non-custodial natural or adoptive father or mother of a dependent child. 2. "Business day" has the same meaning prescribed in section 25-500. 3. "Court" means any court in this or any other state…

Commencing with the payment of public assistance by the department, the director may take action as provided in this chapter to collect child support.

A. At any time after the department is assigned support rights or a public assistance payment is made, the director may issue a notice to be served upon the absent parent in the manner prescribed for service or summons in a civil action. B. The notice shall include: 1. The name o…

A. Subject to legislative appropriation, the department of economic security shall administer the child support enforcement program from the state's share of the child support collections received on public assistance cases. B. Monies appropriated to the department of economic se…

A. The right to support of a child and spouse who receive temporary assistance for needy families pursuant to Public Law 104-193 and chapter 2, article 5 of this title and the right to medical support of a child who receives medical assistance under title XIX of the social securi…

A. The assignment under section 46-407 is subject to all of the following: 1. Terminates with respect to current support when the person entitled to receive support is no longer receiving temporary assistance for needy families. 2. While receiving temporary assistance for needy f…

A. The department shall establish a central support payment clearinghouse to receive, disburse and monitor support payments pursuant to title IV-D of the social security act. B. Unless the court orders that support or maintenance be paid directly to the party entitled to receive …

A. The department shall establish a registry of child support orders to receive information on each title IV-D case and on each case with a support order established, modified or registered in the state beginning on October 1, 1998. The clerk of the superior court shall assist th…

A. Beginning on October 1, 1998, on establishment of paternity or issuance of a support order in a title IV-D case, each party to any child support action shall file with the child support case registry and update, as appropriate, the following information: 1. Full name. 2. Socia…

A. In a title IV-D case in which an order of child support has been established and the obligee under the order surrenders physical custody of the child to a caretaker for thirty consecutive days, whether or not there is a custody order, the obligee's right to child support for t…

A. The department shall establish a mandatory process to transfer support payments electronically. Under this process, the department or its agent shall disburse support payments electronically to an account designated by the obligee or an alternate account that can be accessed b…

A. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Abuse" means: (a) Intentional infliction of physical harm. (b) Injury caused by negligent acts or omissions. (c) Unreasonable confinement. (d) Sexual abuse or sexual assault. (e) Emotional abuse. 2. "Adult protective …

A. Each protective services worker shall: 1. Receive reports of abused, exploited or neglected vulnerable adults. 2. Receive from any source oral or written information regarding an adult who may be in need of protective services. 3. On receipt of such information make an evaluat…

The office of state long-term care ombudsman is established pursuant to the older Americans act of 1965, as amended (P.L. 100-175; United States Code section 307(a)(12)). The state long-term care ombudsman is under the direct supervision of the department of economic security, ag…

A. A representative of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman who performs the official duties of the long-term care ombudsman is not liable under state law for the good faith performance of official duties. B. Official duties of the office of the state long-term care o…

A. Any person making a complaint, furnishing a report, information or records required or authorized by this chapter or otherwise participating in the program authorized by this chapter or in a judicial or administrative proceeding or investigation resulting from reports, informa…

A. A health professional, emergency medical technician, home health provider, hospital intern or resident, speech, physical or occupational therapist, long-term care provider, social worker, peace officer, medical examiner, guardian, conservator, fire protection personnel, develo…

A. A person who has been employed to provide care, who is a de facto guardian or de facto conservator or who has been appointed by a court to provide care to a vulnerable adult and who causes or allows the life of the adult to be endangered or that person's health to be injured o…

A. A person who is in a position of trust and confidence to a vulnerable adult shall use the vulnerable adult's assets solely for the benefit of the vulnerable adult and not for the benefit of the person who is in the position of trust and confidence to the vulnerable adult or th…

A. A person who files an action under this article shall serve notice and one copy of the pleading with the attorney general within thirty days after the action is filed in the superior court. The notice shall identify the action, the person against whom the civil complaint has b…