5107.16 Sanctioning assistance group for noncompliance with contract.
5107.16 Sanctioning assistance group for noncompliance with contract.
(A) If a member of an assistance group fails or refuses, without good cause, to comply in full with a provision of a self-sufficiency contract entered into under section 5107.14 of the Revised Code, a county department of job and family services shall sanction the assistance group as follows:
(1) For a first failure or refusal, the county department shall deny or terminate the assistance group’s eligibility to participate in Ohio works first for one payment month or until the failure or refusal ceases, whichever is longer;
(2) For a second failure or refusal, the county department shall deny or terminate the assistance group’s eligibility to participate in Ohio works first for three payment months or until the failure or refusal ceases, whichever is longer;
(3) For a third or subsequent failure or refusal, the county department shall deny or terminate the assistance group’s eligibility to participate in Ohio works first for six payment months or until the failure or refusal ceases, whichever is longer.
(B) The director of job and family services shall establish standards for the determination of good cause for failure or refusal to comply in full with a provision of a self-sufficiency contract in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code.
(C) The director of job and family services shall provide a compliance form established in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code to an assistance group member who fails or refuses, without good cause, to comply in full with a provision of a self-sufficiency contract. The member’s failure or refusal to comply in full with the provision shall be deemed to have ceased on the date a county department of job and family services receives the compliance form from the member if the compliance form is completed and provided to the county department in the manner specified in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code.
(D) After sanctioning an assistance group under division (A) of this section, a county department of job and family services shall continue to work with the assistance group.
(E) An adult eligible for medicaid pursuant to division (A)(1)(a) of section 5111.01 of the Revised Code who is sanctioned under division (A)(3) of this section for a failure or refusal, without good cause, to comply in full with a provision of a self-sufficiency contract related to work responsibilities under sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code loses eligibility for medicaid unless the adult is otherwise eligible for medicaid pursuant to another division of section 5111.01 of the Revised Code.
An assistance group that would be participating in Ohio works first if not for a sanction under this section shall continue to be eligible for all of the following:
(1) Publicly funded child care in accordance with division (A)(3) of section 5104.30 of the Revised Code;
(2) Support services in accordance with section 5107.66 of the Revised Code;
(3) To the extent permitted by the “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,” 52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C. 201, as amended, to participate in work activities, developmental activities, and alternative work activities in accordance with sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code.
Amended by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, § 101.01, eff. 10/16/2009.
Effective Date: 07-01-2000; 05-18-2005; 2007 HB119 09-29-2007