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Page 194 of 202 § 10:90-15.1 Definitions

"Disability" means, with respect to an individual, a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual such as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, breathing, performing manual tasks, caring for oneself, learning or working; a record of such an impairment; or being regarded as having such an impairment (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Rehabilitation Act of 1973). "Dismissed application" means recognition that eligibility need not be considered further because the applicant moved to another state during the application process or cannot be located, or the application was registered in error. "Disregards" means the amount of earned income which is not considered in the WFNJ program when determining the amount of the assistance benefit. "DDD" means the Division of Developmental Disabilities. "Division of Employment Services (DES)" means the office within the State Department of Labor and Industry responsible for administration of Unemployment Insurance and Temporary Disability Benefits programs and for operation of the State Employment Service. "Division of Family Development (DFD)" means the office within the State Department of Human Services responsible for supervision of the administration of county and municipal agencies. "DVRS" means the Division of Vocational and Rehabilitation Services. "Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)" means the utilization of a Families First debit card by which a recipient may draw benefits through an approved financial institution or vendor. "Eligible medical institution" means a facility or specified section thereof certified as an approved institution for the purpose of treating acute illness (private or general hospitals) or providing care for the chronically ill (long term care facilities). "Emergency assistance" means a program of assistance and related services to WFNJ recipients for brief periods of time, necessitated by unusual circumstances which were neither foreseen nor controllable by the recipient. "Enrollment" means the WFNJ applicant/recipient has been admitted to a Department of Health and Senior Services' licensed or approved residential substance abuse treatment program, is physically residing at the treatment facility, or has been admitted to a DHSS in-patient or out-patient facility. "Exempt resource" means a resource which is not to be taken into consideration when computing extent of need and is not subject to liquidation requirements. "Families First" means the program which utilizes Electronic Benefit Transfer as an alternate method of distributing benefits, such as but not limited to cash assistance and NJ SNAP benefits, to eligible individuals and families. "Family violence" means subjecting an individual(s) to extreme cruelty or physical battering, as defined at 408(a)(7)(C) of the Social Security Act. These behavioral acts of abuse by a perpetrator are those behaviors that result in, or threaten to result in, physical or mental injury/abuse; threatened or attempted sexual assault; sexual assault activity involving a dependent child; the forcing of an individual as the caretaker relative