(a) Unless the context indicates otherwise,
in this chapter,
(1) "activity" means one or
more "work activities," as that term is defined in
AS
47.27.900;
(2) "AFDC" means the Aid to Families with
Dependent Children assistance program formerly administered by the department
under former AS 47.25.301 - 47.25.420, and includes the JOBS program under
former AS 47.25.421 - 47.25.429;
(3) "ANCSA" means the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act set out in 43
U.S.C. 1601 -
1629 h;
(4) "APA" means the Adult Public Assistance
program under
AS
47.25.430-47.25.615, administered by the
department, that provides monthly cash assistance to eligible aged, blind, and
disabled persons in need; for purposes of this chapter, "APA" does not include
interim assistance under
AS
47.25.455;
(5) "applicant" means an individual who has
signed and submitted an application to the department for ATAP assistance on
behalf of that individual, a dependent child, or other qualified
recipient;
(6) "assistance unit"
means those individuals described in
7 AAC 45.335;
(7) "ATAP" means the Alaska Temporary
Assistance Program administered by the department under AS 47.27;
(8) "caretaker relative" means an individual
who provides the care and control of a dependent child; a "caretaker relative"
does not include a guardian, friend, neighbor, unrelated godparent, second
cousin of a dependent child, or an individual who has been given a dependent
child to take care of; a caretaker relative must be
(A) a biological or legally adoptive relative
of the dependent child to the fifth degree of consanguinity; a biological
relative must be of full or half blood; a biological relative may be a
caretaker relative even though the legal relationship has been
terminated;
(B) a stepfather,
stepmother, stepbrother, or stepsister of the dependent child; or
(C) the spouse of an individual described in
(A) or (B) of this paragraph, even after the marriage is terminated by death or
divorce;
(9) "child
support services agency" means the child support services agency of the
Department of Revenue;
(10)
"commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Health and Social
Services;
(11) "countable income"
means the countable income of an assistance unit as determined under
7 AAC 45.470(b);
(12) "department" means the Department of
Health and Social Services;
(13)
"dependent child" or "dependent children" means the same as in
AS
47.27.900;
(14) "director" means the director of the
division of the department that is responsible for administering ATAP under
this chapter;
(15) "district
office" means the office of the department division that is responsible for
administering ATAP under this chapter;
(16) "domestic violence" has the meaning
given in AS 18.66.990;
(17) "DVR" means the division of vocational
rehabilitation, Department of Labor and Workforce Development;
(18) "economic unit" means those persons who
reside together and whose separate income and resources are considered to be
available to each other under
45 C.F.R.
233.20 and this chapter;
(19) "family" has the meaning given
"assistance unit" in this section;
(20) "fee agent" means a department-paid
volunteer who is authorized by the department to conduct a face-to-face
interview with an applicant and assist an applicant in completing an
application and related forms;
(21)
"FSSP" means the family self-sufficiency plan required by
AS
47.27.030 and
7 AAC 45.257;
(22) "GED" means general educational
development, leading to testing and a diploma, recognized by the Department of
Education and Early Development;
(23) "home" means the family setting
maintained, or in the process of being established, as evidenced by assumption
and continuation of responsibility for day-to-day care of the child by the
caretaker relative with whom the child is living; a home exists as long as the
relative exercises responsibility for the care and control of the child, even
though the child or the caretaker relative is temporarily absent from the
family setting;
(24) "household"
means the individuals who reside together under one roof;
(25) "identifiable application" means an
application described in
7 AAC 45.150;
(26) "licensed medical or health care
practitioner" means an individual who is legally authorized to practice a
medical profession in the state under the licensing provisions and exceptions
set out in AS 08;
(27) "minor
parent" means a parent who is an applicant described in
AS
47.27.027(a);
(28) "month" means a calendar month unless
otherwise specified in this chapter;
(29) "motor vehicle" means a motorized
vehicle used to provide transportation of persons or goods; "motor vehicle"
includes a car, truck, recreational vehicle, all-terrain vehicle, boat, snow
machine, airplane, helicopter, superlight or ultralight aircraft, and
hovercraft; "motor vehicle" does not include a pickup truck shell or camper
that is designed to be mounted on a car or truck;
(30) "occupation" means work that offers a
regular source of paid employment;
(31) "parent" means a child's natural or
legally adoptive father or mother;
(32) "PMB" means prior month budgeting, as
described in
7 AAC 45.360;
(33) "provider" means a public or private
organization or agency that delivers an activity to a participant;
(34) "recipient" means an individual who has
been found eligible to receive, and is receiving, ATAP benefits;
(35) "resource" means cash, or an asset that
can be converted to cash, and includes
(A)
real estate;
(B) cash on hand; cash
on deposit; and other liquid resources such as a promissory note, stock, bond,
or security that is readily convertible to cash;
(C) a life insurance policy, burial insurance
policy, or a prepaid burial contract;
(D) a United States government savings bond
or treasury note; a municipal or government bond; or a corporate bond, stock,
or security;
(E) the portion of a
lump sum payment received by the applicant or recipient, that is treated as a
resource rather than income under this chapter; a lump sum payment includes a
large termination paycheck, insurance policy cash-in, and
inheritance;
(F) a motor vehicle;
and
(G) all household goods and
personal effects;
(36)
"sponsor" means a person who agrees in writing to support an alien as a
condition of the alien's entry into the United States and the alien is not the
child of the sponsor or the sponsor's spouse;
(37) "SSI" means the supplemental security
income program that is administered by the United States Social Security
Administration and that provides monthly cash assistance to eligible aged,
blind, and disabled individuals in need;
(38) "stepparent" means a person who is not a
child's natural or adoptive parent, but who is legally married to a natural or
adoptive parent of the child;
(39)
"suitable employment" means employment that complies with
AS
23.10.050-23.10.150 (Alaska Wage and Hour
Act) or produces self-employment income derived from products or services in
demand within the marketing region;
(40) "TANF" means the federal Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families;
(41)
"Title IV-E" means Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, and refers to
payments made under 42
U.S.C. 670 -
673;
(42) "total gross monthly earned income"
means the total of an individual's gross monthly earned employee income that is
available to an assistance unit, calculated in accordance with
7 AAC 45.435, and the gross monthly earned
self-employment income that is available to an assistance unit, calculated in
accordance with
7 AAC 45.445;
(43) "total gross monthly income" means the
sum of an assistance unit's available total gross monthly earned income and the
available total monthly unearned income;
(44) "tribal family assistance program" means
a program, including an Alaska Native family assistance program under ch. 96,
SLA 2000, that meets the requirements of
42 U.S.C.
612 and has been approved for financing
through a tribal family assistance grant directly from the United States
Department of Health and Human Services;
(45) "tribal organization" has the meaning
given in 25 U.S.C.
450 b;
(46) "UIB" means the unemployment insurance
benefits program administered by Department of Labor and Workforce Development
under AS 23.20;
(47) "work
activities" has the meaning as given in
AS
47.27.900;
(48) "WIA" means the Workforce Investment Act
of 1998 (29 U.S.C.
2801 -
2945);
(49) "PASS" means Parents Achieving
Self-Sufficiency;
(50)
"self-sufficiency services" has the meaning given in
AS
47.27.900.
As of Register 142 (July 1997), in addition to adding new
definitions, the definitions in
7 AAC 45.990(a) were rearranged to
re-establish full alphabetical order.
As of Register 151 (October 1999), the regulations attorney
made technical revisions under
AS
44.62.125(b)(6) to reflect
the name change of the Department of Labor to the Department of Labor and
Workforce Development made by ch. 58, SLA 1999 and the corresponding title
change of the commissioner of labor.
As of Register 151 (October 1999), the regulations attorney
made technical revisions under
AS
44.62.125(b)(6) to reflect
the name change of the Department of Education to the Department of Education
and Early Development made by ch. 58, SLA 1999, and the corresponding title
change of the commissioner of education.
As of Register 171 (October 2004), and acting under
AS
44.62.125(b)(6) and sec. 12,
ch. 107, SLA 2004, the regulations attorney made technical changes to reflect
the name change of the child support enforcement agency to the child support
services agency made by sec. 1, ch. 107, SLA 2004.
As of Register 173 (April 2005), the definitions in
7 AAC 45.990(a) were rearranged to
re-establish alphabetical order.
