SECTION 1. Department of transitional assistance

SECTION 2. Comprehensive financial assistance program; services

SECTION 2A. Food stamp employment and training plan; maximization of federal 50–50 match program

SECTION 2B. Educational program; services

SECTION 3. Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; salary

SECTION 4. Deputy commissioner; assistant commissioners; qualifications; salaries; succession; bond

SECTION 5. Organization of department; regional offices; community service areas

SECTION 5A. Repealed, 1971, 943, Sec. 1

SECTION 5B. False representations or failure to disclose facts; penalty

SECTION 5C. Vendors' bill for services; perjury

SECTION 5D. Vendors; violations

SECTION 5E. Return of unlawful payments

SECTION 5F. Father's leaving family to obtain assistance; penalty

SECTION 5G. Claimant; subrogation

SECTION 5H. Recipients of medical assistance under chapter 118E; subrogation; notice; policy provisions; payment by department; information concerning recipients

SECTION 5I. Certain purchases with direct cash assistance funds prohibited; definitions applicable to Secs. 5I and 5J; penalty; reporting of enforcement and violations

SECTION 5J. Preventing electronic benefit transfer transactions for certain purchases made using direct cash assistance funds; penalty

SECTION 5K. Obtaining or receiving department of transitional assistance property through embezzlement, theft or fraud; penalty

SECTION 5L. Food stamp benefits trafficking; penalty

SECTION 5M. Organizational food stamp benefits trafficking; penalty

SECTION 5N. Fraud hotline; sign display

SECTION 6. Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 11

SECTION 7. Community service area boards

SECTION 8. Civil service status of commissioners; restoration

SECTION 9. Employees of department; delegation of responsibilities

SECTION 10. Reports; rules and regulations; federal aid

SECTION 11. Lists of recipients; publication; records; rules and regulations

SECTION 12, 13. Repealed, 1978, 552, Sec. 8

SECTION 14. Reciprocal agreements

SECTION 15. Disclosure of information by banks and insurance companies as to applicant's or recipient's deposits; penalty

SECTION 16. Division of hearings within office of deputy commissioner; director; denial of aid; hearing; referee; decision; review

SECTION 16A. Repealed, 1993, 460, Sec. 4

SECTION 17. Advancement of funds to department for public assistance; monthly report of disbursements

SECTION 18. Reimbursement of department; recipient arrearages; furniture payments

SECTION 18A. Failure of custodial parent to cooperate with IV–D agency

SECTION 19. Eviction from furnished apartment; furniture; relocation

SECTION 20. Purchase of home or income producing property

SECTION 21. Support and maintenance; subrogation of department; termination of assistance; notice

SECTION 22. Verification of categorical and financial eligibility

SECTION 23 to 25. Repealed, 1974, 752, Sec. 12

SECTION 26. Direct payment of rent; public housing; appeal

SECTION 27. Direct payment of rent; request of landlord or recipient

SECTION 27A. Direct deposit of assistance checks at banking institutions; option of recipient

SECTION 28. Accreditation of homemaker services; board, establishment, members, staff and services; standards; rules and regulations; restrictions; enforcement

SECTION 29. Repayment of fraudulently obtained assistance; lien

SECTION 30. Overpayments of assistance; repayment agreement; assignment of income

SECTION 31. Job diversion program; services

SECTION 32. Participation in pathways to self-sufficiency program required; exceptions

SECTION 33. Providing of social security number required; exceptions; penalty for noncompliance

SECTION 34. Tracking of outcomes of individuals served by training and employment service programs

SECTION 35. Availability of caseworker via telephone to recipient of cash assistance

SECTION 36. Fraud detection program

SECTION 37. Work-related expense deduction

SECTION 38. Non-approval of application for new benefits for failure to comply with registration requirements in Secs. 178C to 178P of chapter 6

SECTION 39. Protocols for coordination of information with law enforcement agencies, etc. when recipient the subject of felony warrant