a) The
types of assistance programs administered by DHS include: financial assistance
and SNAP benefits. The types of assistance programs administered by HFS
include: medical assistance and child support services.
b) Financial Assistance Programs - consist
primarily of direct cash payments to recipients. The various
financial
assistance programs are:
1) Aid to the Aged,
Blind or Disabled - State Supplemental Payment
For aged, blind or disabled persons.
2) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
For families with one or more children.
3) Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP)
For refugees from any country.
4) Repatriate Program
For United States citizens and their dependents returned from a
foreign country by the U.S. Department of State.
c) Medical Assistance - under which payments
are made to medical providers for services provided to recipients.
1) Medicaid
For persons eligible for financial assistance under the
AABD-SSP and TANF programs and for individuals not eligible for financial
assistance but who meet the requirements of 89 Ill. Adm. Code 120 for medical
assistance. This includes pregnant women of any age with no other children who
would be eligible for TANF or MANG (CR) if the child had already been born.
Medicaid is provided under the AFDC-F program for children under DCFS
guardianship who have been placed in licensed foster care or in the home of a
relative.
2) Healthy Kids
A preventative health program for all clients who are under 21
years of age and who are receiving AFDC, AABD, RRA, MANG or TANF. Through
Healthy Kids, persons are given periodic screening examinations at certain ages
from birth through age 20. The screening is to diagnose and treat health
problems at an early stage.
d) SNAP - provides increased food purchasing
benefits to recipients.
SNAP benefits are available to individuals who meet the
eligibility requirements of the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture in accordance with the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
(
7 USC
2013 et seq.).
e) Title IV-D - attempts to collect child
support payments from absent parents on behalf of children receiving
assistance. HFS enlists the cooperation of the caretaker relative in
identifying, locating and securing support from an absent parent or parents or
putative father. The support received is subsequently paid directly to
HFS.
