Ohio Admin. Code 5101:4-7-03 - Food assistance: Mass change during the certification period
What is a mass change?
A mass change is initiated by the state or federal government
which
food assistance
work
or disability financial assistance (DFA)
payments; and other changes in the eligibility and benefit criteria
based on legislative or regulatory changes. Federal adjustments to the
eligibility standards, allotments and deductions, and state adjustments to
utility standard shall go into effect for all assistance groups at a specific
point in time. State annual adjustments of the utility standards shall go into
effect for all affected assistance groups at the same time.
County agencies shall publicize these mass changes through the news media, through posters in certification offices, issuance locations, or other sites frequented by certified assistance groups, or through general notices mailed to assistance groups. The county agency shall notify adversely affected assistance groups of these mass changes in accordance with Chapter 5101:6-2 of the Administrative Code. In addition, any assistance group whose certification period overlaps an annual adjustment in the utility standard shall be advised at the time of initial certification of when the adjustment will occur and what the variation in the benefit level will be, if known.
When the state agency makes an overall adjustment to public
assistance payments, corresponding adjustments in the assistance group's
food assistance
When the county agency has at least thirty days advance
knowledge of the amount of the public assistance adjustment, the county agency
shall recompute food assistance
If
food assistance change
The county agency shall establish procedures for making mass changes to reflect cost-of-living adjustments in benefits and any other mass changes under RSDI, SSI, and other programs such as veterans' assistance under Title 38 of the United States Code, (3/2011) and the black lung program, where information on cost-of-living adjustments is readily available and is applicable to all or a majority of those programs' beneficiaries.
Assistance groups shall not be responsible for reporting these
changes. The county agency shall be responsible for automatically adjusting an
assistance group's food assistance
Notes
Promulgated Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: 5101.54
Rule Amplifies: 329.04, 329.042, 5101.54
Prior Effective Dates: 06/02/1980, 04/01/1981, 10/01/1981, 09/24/1983, 08/16/1985 (Emer.), 11/01/1985 (Emer.), 01/01/1986, 08/20/1986 (Emer.), 11/15/1986, 04/10/1987 (Emer.), 06/22/1987, 04/01/1989, 05/01/1991 (Emer.), 06/01/1991, 02/03/1992, 08/01/1995 (Emer.), 10/13/1995, 05/01/1999, 05/22/2004, 09/01/2009, 06/01/2015
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