28-7A-3.   Adoption of rules. The department may adopt such rules as may be necessary and desirable to implement the provisions of this chapter. The department may adopt rules to regulate:

             (1)      Assistance eligibility qualifications, application procedure, and assistance level;

             (2)      Employability assessment, work activities, and supportive services;

             (3)      Conditions of continued eligibility, eligibility time limits, eligibility recertification periods, and exemptions;

             (4)      Program participation requirements, criteria for disqualification, and good cause exemptions;

             (5)      Disqualification for intentional program violation or failure to comply with program requirements;

             (6)      Benefit recovery and recoupment policies and procedures;

             (7)      Methods of distribution and payment of moneys appropriated by the Legislature or received from the federal government for the granting of temporary assistance for needy families;

             (8)      Development of applications, reports, and other forms;

             (9)      Enforcement of child support obligations including distribution of collections, cooperative agreements with courts and law enforcement officials, and such other rules as may be found necessary or desirable to qualify for federal financial participation;

             (10)      Collection, audit, and reporting of facts and statistics relating to the field of public assistance;

             (11)      Compliance with federal reporting and documentation requirements necessary to qualify for federal funds;

             (12)      Such other rules and standards of operation and administration within the mandate of this chapter as may be necessary or desirable to qualify for federal financial participation.

     The rules shall be adopted in accordance with chapter 1-26 and shall be consistent with this chapter.

Source: SL 1997, ch 166, § 4.

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