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92_SB0619

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to public aid.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Public Aid Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 4-1.12 as follows:

 6        (305 ILCS 5/4-1.12)
 7        Sec. 4-1.12.  Five year limitation.
 8        (a)  No  assistance  unit  shall  be  eligible for a cash
 9    grant under this Article if it  includes  an  adult  who  has
10    received  cash  assistance as an adult for 60 months, whether
11    or  not  consecutive,  after  the  effective  date  of   this
12    amendatory  Act  of 1997.  The Illinois Department may exempt
13    individual assistance units from the 60-month  limitation  or
14    determine  circumstances  under which a month or months would
15    not count towards the 60-month  limitation  even  though  the
16    assistance  unit  did  receive  cash  assistance  under  this
17    Article.
18        (b)  In  addition  to months that the Illinois Department
19    determines  by  rule  not  to  count  toward   the   60-month
20    limitation  under  subsection  (a),  the  Illinois Department
21    shall  not  count  months  in  which  the   adult   receiving
22    assistance  under this Article is the primary caregiver for a
23    disabled family member, as defined by the Illinois Department
24    in rules, if the demands of that caregiving are  inconsistent
25    with  sustained  employment.  In addition, families that meet
26    the definition in the preceding sentence that have  exhausted
27    their  eligibility  for  cash  assistance  under the 60-month
28    limitation shall be  eligible  for  cash  assistance  without
29    regard to the 60-month limitation.
30    (Source: P.A. 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)


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