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Page 200 of 202 § 10:90-15.1 Definitions

"Return to state of origin" means that a family, who has resided in New Jersey for a relatively short period desires to return to the state from which it came. "RSDI" means Retirement, Survivors and Disability Insurance. "Sanction" means loss of receipt of assistance benefits for a designated period of time because of noncompliance with program requirement(s). "Services" means any WFNJ benefits that are not provided in the form of cash assistance. "Social Security payment" means RSDI benefit. "Spouse" means a husband or wife of a specified individual. "Spousal-support obligation" means a support obligation for a spouse or former spouse of the obligor. "SSA" means Social Security Administration. "SSI" means Federal Supplemental Security Income Program. "State IV-D Agency" means the Department of Human Services (DHS). "State institution" means any institutional facility for the mentally ill or developmentally disabled, penal institution or veteran's hospital under the jurisdiction of the State of New Jersey. "State office" means the Division of Family Development. "Substance Abuse Initiative" means active participation in substance abuse treatment services that requires a substance abuse assessment administered by a professional clinical care coordinator (CCC) and treatment services as determined clinically appropriate by the CCC, for all WFNJ eligible applicants and recipients who have substance abuse problems. "Suspended grant" means a payment which is withheld from the recipient pending clarification of continuing eligibility and/or extent of need or because of temporary increase of available resources. "TANF" means the Federal welfare reform program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. "Temporary payee" means a person designated temporarily by the WFNJ entity to receive assistance payments on behalf of an eligible individual or family, usually in an emergency situation. "Time-limited assistance" means an aggregate total of 60 cumulative months of receipt of WFNJ benefits whether or not those months are accrued consecutively or intermittently during periods of program participation. "Timely notice" means a notice that is mailed to a WFNJ applicant/recipient by a county or municipal agency at least 10 calendar days before the effective date of an agency's decision or action concerning WFNJ benefits. "Title IV-D" means Part D, "Child Support and Establishment of Paternity," of subchapter IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.) under which states receive partial Federal reimbursement of their administrative expenses for establishing paternity and collecting child support.