093_SB1748
LRB093 03301 DRJ 03318 b
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 Department of Human
19 Services determines by rule not to count toward the 60-month
20 limitation under subsection (a), the Department shall not
21 count months in which the adult receiving assistance under
22 this Article is the primary caregiver for a disabled family
23 member, as defined by the Department in rules, if the demands
24 of that caregiving are inconsistent with sustained
25 employment. In addition, families that meet the definition
26 in the preceding sentence that have exhausted their
27 eligibility for cash assistance under the 60-month limitation
28 shall be eligible for cash assistance without regard to the
29 60-month limitation.
30 (Source: P.A. 90-17, eff. 7-1-97.)