239B.1 - DEFINITIONS.
239B.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Applicant" means a person who files an application for
participation in the family investment program under this chapter.
2. "Assistance" means a family investment program payment.
3. "Child" means an unmarried person who is less than
eighteen years of age or an unmarried person who is eighteen years of
age and is engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or
equivalency requirements in a manner which is reasonably expected to
result in completion of the requirements prior to the person reaching
nineteen years of age.
4. "Department" means the department of human services.
5. "Family" means a family unit that includes at least one
child and at least one parent or other specified relative of the
child.
6. "Family investment agreement" means the agreement
developed with a participant in accordance with section 239B.8.
7. "Family investment program" means the family investment
program under this chapter.
8. "Limited benefit plan" means a period of time in which a
participant or member of a participant's family is either eligible
for reduced assistance only or ineligible for any assistance under
the family investment program, in accordance with section 239B.9.
9. "Minor parent" means an applicant or participant parent
who is less than eighteen years of age and has never been married.
10. "Participant" means a person who is receiving full or
partial family investment program assistance. For the purposes of
sections 239B.8 and 239B.9, "participant" also includes each
individual who does not directly receive assistance but who is
required to be engaged in work or training options specified in the
participant's family investment agreement entered into under section
239B.8.
11. "PROMISE JOBS program" or "JOBS program" means the
promoting independence and self-sufficiency through employment job
opportunities and basic skills program created in section 239B.17.
12. "Specified relative" means a person who is, or was at any
time, one of the following relatives of an applicant or participant
child, by means of blood relationship, marriage, or adoption, or is a
spouse of one of the following relatives:
a. Parent.
b. Grandparent.
c. Great-grandparent.
d. Great-great-grandparent.
e. Stepparent of the child, but not the parent of the
stepparent.
f. Sibling.
g. Stepsibling.
h. Sibling by at least the half blood.
i. Uncle or aunt by at least the half blood.
j. Great-uncle or great-aunt.
k. Great-great-uncle or great-great-aunt.
l. First cousin.
m. Nephew or niece.
n. Second cousin. Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 41, §2, 34; 2007 Acts, ch 124, §1
Referred to in § 252B.1