SEC. 43-17-31. Unemployed parents provisions.
In order to extend and improve services, aid, and care to needy dependent children and needy families with children in this state, and in order to take full advantage of federally funded programs on a matched basis, the State Department of Human Services shall cooperate with the United States and administer the unemployed parents provisions of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 607, or any amendments thereto, relating to aid to families with dependent children when the child's parent who is the principal earner is unemployed, and receive and expend federal monies for such services. The State Department of Human Services shall establish a state plan for the payment of Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits when the child's parent who is the principal earner is unemployed in accordance with the unemployed parents provisions of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 607, and shall enter such orders and make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry the plan into effect.
SOURCES: Laws, 1990, ch. 356, Sec. 1, eff from and after Oct 1, 1990.
1997 Amendment:
SECTION 27. Sections 43-49-1, 43-49-3, 43-49-8, 43-49-9, 43-49-11, 43-49-13, 43-49-15 and 43-17-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, which is the Mississippi Welfare Program Restructuring Act of 1993, and which provide for the implementation of required welfare reform components of the federal Family Support Act of 1988 and the federal Job Opportunity and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program, provide conditions for eligibility for AFDC benefits and prescribe certain duties of the Department of Human Services, provide for a Work Encouragement Program under applicable federal waivers, provide for a Work First pilot program under applicable federal waivers, require the department to prepare waiver requests for the welfare reform programs, authorize the department to request additional waivers regarding welfare reform and direct the department to establish an AFDC unemployed parents program, are repealed.
SOURCE: 1997 Laws, Chapter 316, Sec. 27, HB 766, Effective AP-March 12, 1997.