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N.J.A.C. 10:90-14.3 This file includes all Regulations adopted and published through the New Jersey Register, Vol. 56 No. 24, December 16, 2024
NJ - New Jersey Administrative Code > TITLE 10. HUMAN SERVICES > CHAPTER 90. WORK FIRST NEW JERSEY PROGRAM > SUBCHAPTER 14. FISCAL PROCEDURES FOR WFNJ SINGLE ADULTS AND COUPLES WITHOUT DEPENDENT CHILDREN (WFNJ/GA)
§ 10:90-14.3 Public Assistance Trust Fund Accounts
(a) The law provides that every payment made to a county/ municipality as State aid for WFNJ/GA, including all moneys received as a refund or in restitution of any year's assistance expenditures, shall be made payable to the chief financial officer (CFO) of the county agency or the treasurer (but not by name) of the municipality and deposited by him or her in the Public Assistance Trust Fund (PATF) Account. Municipalities that administer the WFNJ/GA program shall be required to maintain both a PATF I and a PATF II Account. Counties which administer the WFNJ/GA program will be required to maintain one PATF. 1. A municipality which has received State aid shall not close out its PATF Accounts at the end of that fiscal year. Municipalities shall maintain PATF accounts in order to qualify for State aid. 2. Procedures in non-transferability of funds are the following: i. Under no circumstances shall payments made to a municipality as State aid for WFNJ/GA in the current or prior years be deposited or transferred to the municipal current account or used for any purpose other than public assistance grants exclusive of administrative costs. Transfers from PATF I to PATF II are not barred by this subsection. Transfer of surpluses arising from municipal appropriations in prior years is not barred by this paragraph. ii. When the WFNJ/GA program has been transferred to the county, the PATF I balance, with the approval of DFD, may be transferred to the municipal current fund and the account closed, as long as the municipality does not owe any portion of the PATF I balance to the State. 3. State aid advances shall be deposited in the PATF II Account. 4. All payments received by a county/municipality or any other agency from or on behalf of current or former recipients shall be deposited in the "PATF Account," and entered on Statement of Refunds (Form WFNJ/ GA-12) and duly accounted for on a monthly basis. i. Refunds and other receipts shall be separated and deposited as follow: