Title 44, Title 44: POOR

44:8-110.1. Disbursement of funds for legal services for successful appeals 1. The Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services shall disburse funds from the Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General Assistance Fund for fees to an attorney or a legal en…

44:8-110.2 Reduction of amount of Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General Assistance funds 2. The Division of Family Development shall reduce the amount of Payments to Municipalities for Cost of General Assistance funds otherwise obliged to be paid to the municipal welfare…

44:8-110.3. Rules, regulations 3. The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to effectuate the purposes of this act.L.1996,c.65,s.3.

44:8-111. Commissioner's duties 5. The commissioner shall: (a) Act as the agent of the State in effectuating the purposes of any reciprocal interstate agreements respecting the transportation of dependents; (b) Negotiate with the Federal Government as to any present or future pro…

44:8-111.1. Centralized registry established; updating of information 1. The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish a centralized registry in the Division of Family Development of the Department of Human Services to contain the names and Social Security numbers, and such …

44:8-111.2. Registry information made available; provision for comparison checks 2. a. The commissioner shall make the information in the centralized registry established pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1994, c.147 (C.44:8-111.1) available to those states which are contiguous to New…

44:8-111.3. Report 3. The commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act, and annually thereafter, on the actions taken to carry out the provisions of this act and the results thereof, and shall accompany …

44:8-112. Powers of commissioner 6. The commissioner may: (a) Determine and prescribe the number and qualifications of the personnel employed or to be employed in administering public assistance in each of the municipalities or counties, as appropriate; (b) Require the keeping of…

44:8-113. Administration as to municipalities or counties 7. The commissioner may, as to each municipality or county in which public assistance is administered by the commissioner under P.L.1947, c.156 (C.44:8-107 et seq.), (a) Prescribe all rules and conditions under which the f…

44:8-114. Administration and funding of public assistance 8. a. The State shall provide, through each municipality or county, as appropriate, public assistance to the persons eligible therefor, residing therein or otherwise when so provided by law, which assistance shall be fully…

44:8-115. Local assistance boards; membership; appointment; compensation Each local assistance board shall be composed of three or five persons as shall be fixed by the governing body of the municipality and at least one of them shall be a woman and they shall be appointed by the…

44:8-116. Terms of members of local assistance boards; vacancies The term of one member of each local assistance board shall be for one year and such member only may be appointed from among the membership of the governing body of the municipality and the terms of the other member…

44:8-117. Organization of local assistance boards; director of welfare; employees Each local assistance board shall organize and select a chairman and a secretary, and shall appoint a director of welfare who shall be the first executive and administrative officer of the board. He…

44:8-117.1. Municipality authorized to establish staffing level of welfare department 1. Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the governing body of a municipality shall have the authority to establish staffing levels for the municipality's welfare department for…

44:8-118. Duties of welfare director 12. The director of welfare of each municipality shall as to that municipality, or the county welfare director shall as to that county, as appropriate: (a) Supervise by periodic investigation every person receiving public assistance, such inve…

44:8-119. Applicant's affidavit 13. Each applicant for public assistance in any municipality or county shall be required to make an affidavit to the correctness of his or her statements in his or her application for relief. L.1947,c.156,s.13; amended 1995,c.259,s.21.

44:8-120. Immediate assistance 14. Immediate public assistance shall be rendered promptly to any needy person by the director of welfare of the municipality or the county welfare director, as appropriate, where the person is found at the time of application. Needy persons residin…

44:8-121. Inquiry by director 15. When a person shall apply for public assistance for himself or his dependents, the municipal or county director of welfare, as appropriate, shall inquire into the facts, conditions and circumstances of the case, including customary place of abode…

44:8-122. Aid and assistance after reasonable inquiry The director of welfare, by a written order, shall render such aid and material assistance as he may in his discretion, after reasonable inquiry, deem necessary to the end that such person may not suffer unnecessarily, from co…

44:8-123. Order after complete investigation The director of welfare upon completion of investigation shall determine whether or not continued assistance is necessary, and shall make such order as in his judgment is warranted, having due regard to the circumstances disclosed by i…

44:8-124. Continued assistance, manner of; extent Continued assistance under this act may be provided in such a manner as to meet any or all of the several needs of, or as may be necessary to protect the well-being of, the person or persons to whom assistance is to be granted suc…

44:8-125. Deductions from public assistance 19. The fact that an applicant for public assistance or any of his dependents shall be receiving, or entitled to receive, income from other sources or compensation for part-time or casual services shall not make such person ineligible t…

44:8-126. Exploitation of recipients No welfare department of any municipality shall directly or indirectly exploit or permit to be exploited recipients of public assistance for political purposes. L.1947, c. 156, p. 699, s. 20.

44:8-127. Revocation of order for continued assistance The director of welfare may in his discretion summarily revoke any order for continued assistance whenever it shall appear that the person is no longer needy with the meaning of this act or will be otherwise adequately provid…

44:8-128. Determination annually of "preceding year's ratables" and public assistance loads of municipalities In each year, the commissioner shall ascertain and determine as to each municipality in the State: (a) The sum total of the net valuation taxable, and the value of the se…

44:8-129. Determining amount of State aid 23. In each year the commissioner shall determine the amount of State aid which each municipality or county, as appropriate, shall receive in such year, and the same shall be distributed by the commissioner among the various municipalitie…

44:8-130. Advance payments to municipality before determination of "current year's public assistance load" The commissioner may make payments, from time to time, under the above stated formula to any such municipality in advance of the determination of such municipality's "curren…

44:8-131. Deductions from amount of State aid payable to municipalities The commissioner shall deduct from the amount of the State aid payable to any municipality in any one year an amount equal to the amount by which the State aid paid to the municipality exceeded the cost of pu…

44:8-132. Counties furnishing hospitalization in maternity hospitals State aid shall also be payable to any county furnishing hospitalization in a county maternity hospital to nonpaying patients, who are bona fide public assistance cases, on the basis of the per diem rate current…

44:8-133. Commissioner to administer public assistance in municipality when The commissioner shall administer public assistance in any year, (a) In any municipality, in which the "preceding year's public assistance millage" for such year is more than 7.0 mills, which shall make a…

44:8-134. Duties of municipality when public assistance is administered by commissioner In any municipality in which public assistance shall be administered by the commissioner during any year, (a) All books, records, supplies, equipment or other property in the possession or cus…

44:8-135. Election of municipality to administer its own public assistance in following year If any municipality, in which public assistance is being administered by the commissioner in any year, shall give notice in writing to the commissioner, before the first day of January of…

44:8-136. Election of municipality to administer its own public assistance during current year Any municipality, in which the commissioner is administering public assistance pursuant to the provisions of this act in any year, may elect to administer its own public assistance in s…

44:8-137. Municipality or county to pay cost of administration 31. The cost of administration of public assistance within any municipality or county, as appropriate, shall be paid by that municipality or county, as appropriate, and no part thereof shall be paid by the State excep…

44:8-138. "Public assistance trust fund account" Every payment for State aid made pursuant to this act to a municipality shall be made to the treasurer of the municipality and shall be deposited by him in a "public assistance trust fund account" and shall be used only for payment…

44:8-139. Transfer of current budget appropriation for public assistance No municipality receiving State aid for relief for any year shall, during said year, make any transfer of its current budget appropriation for public assistance for said year to any other current budget appr…

44:8-140. False statements by applicants Any person applying for public assistance under the provisions of this act who shall make any false statement and by reason thereof receives benefits under the provisions of this act in excess of those to which he is or was actually entitl…

44:8-140.1 Civil, criminal penalties for fraudulent receipt of benefits or payments for general public assistance 1. A person who willfully obtains benefits to which he is not entitled and a provider who willfully receives payments to which he is not entitled under the "Work Firs…

44:8-142. Officers and board members failing to comply If any municipal officer, board or body shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any of the provisions of this act, such officer, and members of such board or body shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. L.1947, c. 156, p. 705…

44:8-143. Repeal The following acts together with all amendments thereof and supplements thereto are repealed: An act to provide for the protection, welfare of and financial assistance to certain needy persons in the State of New Jersey, providing for the administration thereof, …

44:8-144. Laws saved from repeal or modification This act shall not be construed to repeal, alter or modify the provisions of chapter one of Title 44, or chapter four of Title 44, of the Revised Statutes except to the extent herein otherwise expressly provided nor to repeal, alte…

44:8-145. Revision of prior laws, construction as; existing positions not affected This act shall be construed as a revision of prior laws and its provisions not inconsistent with those of prior laws shall be construed as a continuation of such laws and neither the enactment of t…

44:8-145.1. Transfer from municipal to county welfare agency 28. a. A municipality may, by mutual agreement with the county in which it is located, provide for the transfer from its municipal welfare agency to the county welfare agency of the financial and operational responsibil…

44:8-145.2. Appointment of assistant county welfare director 29. Each county welfare director may appoint a person to serve as assistant county welfare director for general public assistance or to another supervisory position to be responsible for the administration of general pu…

44:8-145.3. Allocation of functions, powers, and duties 30. The county welfare director of each county is authorized to allocate the functions, powers and duties of each municipal welfare agency in the county transferred pursuant to P.L.1995, c.259 (C.40A:4-6.1 et al.) among the …

44:8-145.4. Employees transferred, remuneration, service intact; provision of services to municipal agency permitted 31. a. A person who is a full-time employee of a municipal welfare agency, or who works on a full-time basis for municipal welfare agencies in two or more municipa…