(20 ILCS 605/605-815) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.19a in part)
Sec. 605-815.
Unemployed and underemployed single parents.
The Department, in cooperation with the Departments of Human
Services and
Employment Security, may establish a program to encourage community action
agencies to establish programs that will help unemployed and
underemployed single parents to identify, access, and develop, through such
means as counseling or mentoring, internal and external resources that will
enable those single parents to become emotionally and financially
self-sufficient. The intended primary beneficiaries of the local programs
shall
be female heads of households who are at least 22 but less than 46 years of age
and who are physically able to work but are unemployed or underemployed. The
Department may make grants, subject to the availability of funding, to
communities and local agencies for the purpose of establishing local programs
as described in this Section. A grant under this
Section shall
be made for a period of one year and may be renewed if the Department
determines that the program is successful in meeting its objectives. If the
Department determines that implementation of a program has resulted in a
savings of State moneys that otherwise would have been paid to beneficiaries of
the program, the Department, on renewing a grant, may adjust the grant amount
for those demonstrated savings.
For purposes of this Section, a person is
underemployed if his or her income from employment is less than 185% of the
federal official poverty income guideline.
(Source: P.A. 90-454, eff. 8-16-97; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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