Sec. 17b-105h. Use and distribution of food stamp employment and training federal matching funds.
Sec. 17b-105h. Use and distribution of food stamp employment and training
federal matching funds. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, the Department
of Social Services may use such funds from the federal matching funds received by the
state pursuant to section 17b-105f as are needed for operating expenses and to employ
one staff position for purposes directly related to the administration of the matching
funds provision for the food stamp employment and training program, and for any fiscal
year thereafter may use such funds as is necessary to operate and administer said
program.
(b) The remaining federal matching funds received by the state pursuant to section
17b-105f shall be used for poverty reduction strategies and distributed in the following
manner: Seventy-five per cent of such remaining funds shall be provided to food stamp
employment and training providers whose expenditures generated the federal matching
funds on a pro-rata basis, pursuant to section 17b-105f; and twenty-five per cent of such
remaining funds shall be provided to food stamp employment and training community
collaboratives selected pursuant to section 17b-105g for implementation of poverty
reduction strategies.
(P.A. 08-161, S. 4.)