Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart
1.
Grant issuance.
Grants of general assistance shall be issued to the recipient
according to subparts
2 and
3.
Subp. 2.
Time period for issuance of
assistance.
The state or county agency shall mail assistance payments to
the address where the assistance unit lives, or an alternate address when
approved by the county agency, within time to allow postal service delivery to
occur no later than the first day of each month unless:
A. the county agency has exercised its option
to issue assistance weekly under part
9500.1237, subpart 4, item C or D,
in which case the county agency must provide the recipient with a schedule by
which the recipient is to visit the agency to pick up the payments or notices;
and
B. the state or county agency
issues payments by means other than checks, in which case the payments must
conform to the time limits in this subpart.
Subp. 3.
Special voucher or vendor
payment provisions.
Assistance must be paid directly to a recipient, except as
provided in items A to F.
A. When a
county agency has determined that a voucher or vendor payment is the most
effective way to resolve an emergency situation under part
9500.1261, payment shall be made
by voucher or directly to a vendor.
B. When the county agency has reason to
suspect that a client is drug dependent, payment shall be made as provided
under part
9500.1272.
C. When the applicant or recipient has no
verified residence address, payment shall be made as provided under part
9500.1237, subpart 4, item C, D,
or E.
D. When the applicant or
recipient requests in writing that all or part of the assistance be issued in
the form of vendor payments and the county agency approves the request, payment
shall be made by vendor payment.
E.
When an assistance unit consists of only minor children due to the
disqualification of one or both parents who have not complied with the work
readiness program, payment shall be made by vendor or protective
payment.
F. When a county agency
has determined that a recipient has exhibited a continuing pattern of money
mismanagement, payment shall be made by vendor or protective payment. A
continuing pattern of money mismanagement exists when a recipient has received
a total of two or more grants of emergency assistance within an 18-month
period. For the purposes of this provision, grants of emergency assistance are
payments made under part
9500.1261 or
9500.2820 or emergency payments
from county funds. In order to be counted for this provision, the emergencies
for which grants were issued must have resulted from the recipient's failure to
use available resources for the payment of basic need items. The county agency
must review the use of protective or vendor payments under this item at each
redetermination of eligibility.
Statutory Authority: MS s
14.388;
256D.01;
256D.04;
256D.051;
256D.06;
256D.08;
256D.09;
256D.111
