Chapter 1 - Department of Human Services and County Departments of Public Welfare.
- 43-1-1 - Department of Human Services to be State Department of Public Welfare. [Repealed effective July 1, 2012].
- 43-1-2 - Mississippi Department of Human Services; Executive Director of Human Services; Joint Oversight Committee; powers of executive director; structure of department. [Repealed effective July 1, 2
- 43-1-3 - Delegation, privatization, or contracting with private entity for operation of office, bureau or division of department. [Repealed effective July 1, 2012].
- 43-1-4 - Powers and duties of department.
- 43-1-5 - Duties of department. [Repealed effective July 1, 2012].
- 43-1-6 - Transfer of programs of Division of Federal-State Programs to State Department of Human Services. [Repealed effective July 1, 2012].
- 43-1-7 - Family resource centers; information campaign for low income individuals; telephone hotline for reporting welfare fraud.
- 43-1-8 - Repealed.
- 43-1-9 - County department of public welfare.
- 43-1-10 - Repealed.
- 43-1-11 - Expenses of county welfare office.
- 43-1-12 - Expenditure of municipal or county funds to support public welfare programs.
- 43-1-13 - Political activity.
- 43-1-15 - Office of State Department.
- 43-1-17 - Cooperation with the federal government.
- 43-1-19 - Disclosure of records of disbursement and payment of public assistance governed by federal regulations; penalty for violation.
- 43-1-21 - Disposal of abandoned applications, closed case files, and the like.
- 43-1-23 - Fraud investigation unit; duties; staff; assistance from and to other agencies; issuance of subpoenas.
- 43-1-25 - Assistant prosecutors for prosecution of fraud in connection with assistance programs; investigation and prosecution costs to be subsidized.
- 43-1-27 - Action maintainable by department of public welfare to recover benefits wrongfully obtained; attorney's fees; evidence.
- 43-1-28 - Online electronic benefit transfer (EBT) system for food stamps; pilot project; federal approval and funding.
- 43-1-29 - Offline electronic benefit transfer (EBT) system for food stamps; demonstration project; federal approval and funding.
- 43-1-30 - Mississippi TANF Implementation Council. [Repealed effective July 1, 2010].
- 43-1-31 - Purpose of law; contracts with, and payment by, federal authority.
- 43-1-33 - Definitions.
- 43-1-35 - Amount of payments.
- 43-1-37 - When person becomes ineligible to receive payments.
- 43-1-51 - Creation of division; areas of responsibility.
- 43-1-53 - Organization of division; qualifications of director.
- 43-1-55 - Standards for employment and service delivery; Training and Testing Advisory Council created; duties; membership; meetings; chairperson; quorum [Repealed effective July 1, 2010].
- 43-1-57 - Recordkeeping procedures; uniform intake procedure.
- 43-1-59 - Allocation of departmental resources.
- 43-1-61 - Repealed.
- 43-1-63 - Interdepartmental sharing of resources and services for preventing and detecting child abuse and neglect.
- 43-1-65 - Mississippi Child Care Quality Step System established by requiring Department of Human Services Office for Children and Youth to develop and implement pilot voluntary quality rating system
- 43-1-67 - Office of Children and Youth to conduct needs assessment to determine need for program to provide incentives to certain teachers/directors who make educational advancements listed in QRS cri