New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 140 - PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES PROGRAM
Subchapter 3 - SCREENING, SERVICES AND APPEALS
Section 10:140-3.10 - Adverse agency actions

(a) An applicant or consumer may request an administrative review of an agency denial, reduction, suspension or termination of services, denial of a request for an exception, or a failure to act upon a request for services within prescribed time frames.

(b) If services received or requested are to be denied, reduced, suspended or terminated, the county designated agency shall provide written notice and, if appropriate, oral notice to the applicant or consumer at least 30 days prior to such action. Consumers may receive notice in less than 30 days in accordance with 10:140-3.9(c).

(c) The written notice of such adverse action shall indicate the reason(s) for the action to be taken, citing the basis for the decision.

(d) In addition, all written notices of such adverse action shall contain the following statement:

"An applicant to or eligible consumer of the Personal Assistance Services Program, who is dissatisfied with any decision regarding an eligibility determination or other matters pertaining to participation in the Personal Assistance Services Program, may file a request for an administrative review of that decision. The applicant or eligible consumer shall not be afforded an administrative review when the adverse agency action is due to State mandated reductions in funding, unless the request for a review is based on a claim of inaccuracy or misapplication by the county designated agency.

A request for an administrative review must be made within 30 days of the date of written notice of an adverse agency action.

Request for an administrative review may be made by telephone or letter to the:

State Program Administrator

Personal Assistance Services Program

Division of Disability Services

PO Box 705

Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0705

1-888-285-3036"

(e) A request for a review will operate as a stay of any adverse agency action pending the outcome of the administrative review or any subsequent appeal. A stay of an adverse action may be denied either at the discretion of the county designated agency based on a case-by-case determination of severity in one of those situations described in 10:140-3.9(e)4 and 7, or because the request for a review based on a State mandated reduction in funding does not claim an incorrect computation or misapplication by the county designated agency.

(f) Once a stay of the adverse agency action is applied, personal assistance services to a consumer shall not be suspended, reduced or terminated prior to the completion of the administrative review and the rendering of the decision, except when:

(g) Within 30 days from the completion of the administrative review, the State Program Administrator shall render a decision and that decision shall be sent in writing to the applicant or consumer.

(h) Applicants or consumers who disagree with the decision of the administrative review may request a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge pursuant to 10:140-3.11. Instructions for such requests shall be incorporated into the written results noted in (g) above.