Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Health Services
DHS 250 - Economic Support
Chapter DHS 251 - County Relief Programs
Section DHS 251.03 - Definitions

(1) "AFDC" means aid to families with dependent children, a public assistance program under title IV-A of the Social Security Act of 1935, as amended, and s. 49.19, Stats.

(2) "Benefits" means payment or services, including health care services and voucher payments made to third parties on behalf of dependent persons or directly to dependent persons.

(3) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of health services.

(4) "Dependent person" means an individual who is eligible for relief under s. 49.015, Stats.

(5) "Failure to comply" means an action or inaction of a relief recipient that violates a relief agency rule without good cause.

(7) "Health care services" has the meaning given in s. 49.01 (2g), Stats.

(8) "Medical assistance divestment" means the disposal of an asset for less than its fair market value with the consequence that the individual who does this is ineligible for medical assistance under the provisions of s. 49.453, Stats., and s. DHS 103.065.

(9) "Recipient" means an individual who is determined eligible for or is receiving benefits from a relief agency.

(10) "Relief" means assistance that is provided to a dependent person and funded by a relief block grant.

(11) "Relief agency" means a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23, Stats., that is designated by the county governing body to administer relief, or an agency under contract with a county department to administer relief.

(12) "Relief agency rules" means the rules adopted by a relief agency for administering the relief agency's relief block grant program.

(14) "Sanction" means discontinuation or reduction of medical or nonmedical benefits for failure to comply with a relief agency's written program requirements under the block grant program.

(15) "SSI" means supplemental security income, the assistance program under section 1613 of title XVI of the Social Security Act of 1935, as amended and s. 49.77, Stats.

(16) "Work relief" means a component of the relief program operated by a relief agency in which the relief agency requires recipients, in exchange for their benefits, to do work or training which the recipients are capable of performing on work projects or training authorized and sponsored by the relief agency.

(17) "Work requirements" means the relief agency's rules for the work relief and grant diversion components of its relief program.