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verification that the department determines to be necessary to establish eligibility. The electronic application must inform an applicant that a false statement made on the application will be investigated and is punishable under AS 11.56.210. In this subsection, “electronic application” means an application for benefits or renewal of benefits, whether the department exclusively administers the benefits or administers the benefits in coordination with another state agency or federal agency, electronically completed and submitted through the department's Internet website. (b) On the application, each applicant shall attest to whether the family, at any time, has received cash assistance or self-sufficiency services from another state program that was established with federal money under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and whether the family has ever been disqualified from receiving cash assistance or self-sufficiency services under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program for the period for which the application has been submitted. (c) An applicant shall agree to cooperate with the department to establish a family self- sufficiency plan and to participate in work activities when assigned by the department. (d) An applicant shall acknowledge the assignment of support rights as required by AS 47.27.040(a) and shall agree to cooperate with the child support services agency of the Department of Revenue to the extent required under AS 47.27.040(b). The applicant shall agree to report all child support payments received directly by the family, during or for a period for which the family is receiving cash assistance under this chapter, to the department within 15 days after receipt of those payments. (e) An applicant shall update the information requested in the application at regular intervals as established by the department in regulation. The department may conduct reviews of an application and audit the information provided as necessary to determine eligibility. Sec. 47.27.025. Cash assistance. (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 is eligible for cash assistance except as otherwise provided in AS 47.27.015 or 47.27.027(b), and cash assistance received as a dependent child does not count against eligibility for cash assistance under this chapter as a caretaker or spouse of a caretaker of a dependent child or as a pregnant woman. (b) The amounts of cash assistance may not exceed the following: (1) for a dependent child living with a nonneedy relative caretaker, $452 per month, plus $102 for each additional child; (2) for a dependent child living with at least one needy parent or relative caretaker, $821 per month, plus $102 for each additional child and $102 for a second needy parent if the second parent is physically or mentally unable to perform gainful activity as defined by department regulation; or (3) for a family consisting solely of an eligible pregnant woman, $514 per month. (c) The department shall, for the months of July, August, and September, reduce by 50 percent the maximum cash assistance for which the family is otherwise eligible if the family's eligibility for cash assistance is based on AS 47.27.010(4), unless the second needy parent is determined,