Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance
Chapter 45 - Alaska Temporary Assistance Program
7 AAC 45.245 - Child support cooperation

(a) The caretaker relative must cooperate with the child support services agency of the Department of Revenue in

(b) A caretaker relative is considered to have failed to cooperate under this section if

(c) If a caretaker relative fails to cooperate as required by this section, the department will reduce the amount of ATAP assistance by imposing the penalty required by AS 47.27.085(a) and 7 AAC 45.980.

(d) The caretaker relative shall complete an absent-parent information form unless the caretaker relative is a parent of the child for whom ATAP benefits are sought or received and

(e) At the time of initial application, the department will provide the caretaker relative with

(f) If the caretaker relative completes and signs the absent-parent information form, the department will consider the caretaker relative to be cooperating until such time as the child support services agency notifies the department otherwise. If the caretaker relative refuses to complete the absent-parent information form, but elects to mark the box indicating the intention to claim good cause, the department will provide to the caretaker relative a form upon which to claim good cause. If the caretaker relative refuses to complete the information form and refuses to claim good cause, the department will proceed with determining an assistance unit's eligibility. If the assistance unit is eligible for ATAP benefits, the department will apply the provisions in (c) of this section, make payments to a protective payee in accordance with 7 AAC 45.590, and notify the caretaker relative why the department is taking this action.

(g) If the department is notified by the child support services agency that the caretaker relative has failed to cooperate, the department will apply (c) of this section and mail a notice of non-cooperation to the caretaker relative. The notice will advise the caretaker relative that the child support services agency has notified the department that the caretaker relative has failed to cooperate and will state that, within 10 days after the department mails the notice, the caretaker relative must

(h) Repealed 10/1/97.

(i) If, within 10 days after a notice is issued under (g) of this section, the caretaker relative cooperates with the child support services agency, the department will remove the penalty imposed under (c) of this section.

(j) If the caretaker relative responds to the notice issued under (g) of this section within 10 days by claiming good cause, and providing evidence to support the claim, the department will

(k) If the department determines under (j) of this section that good cause does not exist and that the caretaker relative is failing to cooperate with the child support services agency, the department will continue to impose the penalty for non-cooperation under (c) of this section and will notify the caretaker relative of this decision.

(l) If a caretaker relative who is penalized under (k) of this section subsequently cooperates with the child support services agency and is otherwise eligible under this chapter, the department will begin paying the family the full amount of the cash assistance for which the family is eligible as required by AS 47.27.085(a) and 7 AAC 45.980. The department will pay the benefits directly to the caretaker relative if the caretaker relative is otherwise eligible to be the payee under this chapter.

(m) Repealed 8/6/92.

(n) If all reasonable efforts to select an appropriate protective payee under 7 AAC 45.590 fail, the department will apply the provisions in (c) of this section, and will pay the recalculated payment to the caretaker relative.

(o) In this section, "cooperate" means