North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 75 - Department of Human Services
Article 75-02 - Economic Assistance
Chapter 75-02-01.2 - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
Section 75-02-01.2-79 - Sanctions for noncompliance with temporary assistance for needy families program requirements

1. Temporary assistance for needy families participants who fail or refuse to comply with program requirements, without good cause, may be sanctioned. Actions or failures to comply that may result in sanctions include:

2. All sanctions are first imposed against the responsible individual and will result in removal of the individual's financial needs from the household's temporary assistance for needy families grant, for a period of one month in an ongoing case.

3. If the sanctioned individual does not cure the sanction prior to the end of the sanction penalty month, the sanction may progress to closure of the entire temporary assistance for needy families case.

4. Sanctions under temporary assistance for needy families follow a noncooperating individual.

5. A job opportunities and basic skills program sanction, or a tribal native employment works program sanction, is cured only when the responsible individual demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the human service zone, that the failure to cooperate or participate, as required, has been corrected for at least ten consecutive days.

6. A child support sanction may only be considered cured upon notification from the child support agency to the eligibility worker that the sanctioned individual is cooperating in obtaining child support and, if necessary, establishing paternity.