1. The state treasurer shall be treasurer and custodian of all funds and moneys of the department and shall issue checks upon such funds or moneys in accordance with such rules and regulations as the department shall prescribe.

2. There is hereby established as a special fund, separate and apart from the public moneys of this state, the following:

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 208.170

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

(1) Supplemental payment fund;

(2) Aid to families with dependent children fund;

(3) Relief fund;

(4) Child welfare service fund;

(5) Administration fund;

(6) Title XIX fund;

(7) Child support enforcement fund.

3. The supplemental payment fund shall consist of moneys appropriated by the state, and such moneys as may be received from the federal government or other sources for the payment of supplemental payments. All checks payable to recipients of supplemental payments shall be drawn on and paid from this fund.

4. The aid to families with dependent children fund shall consist of moneys appropriated by the state, and such moneys as may be received from the federal government or other sources for the payment of aid to families with dependent children. All checks payable for aid to families with dependent children shall be drawn on and paid from this fund.

5. The relief fund shall consist of moneys appropriated by the state, and such moneys as may be received from the federal government or other sources for aid or relief in cases of public calamity. All expenditures for aid or relief in cases of public calamity shall be paid from this fund.

6. The child welfare service fund shall consist of moneys appropriated by the state, and such moneys as may be received from the federal government or other sources for child welfare services, and this fund or any portion of it may be transferred to the administration fund.

7. The administration fund shall consist of moneys appropriated by the state, and moneys received from the federal government to pay the administrative costs of the department in administering the provisions of the law. All checks payable for employees and personal services of representatives of the department shall be drawn on and paid from the administration fund.

8. The Title XIX fund shall consist of moneys appropriated by the state and such moneys as may be received from the federal government or other sources for the payment of medical assistance rendered to eligible recipients pursuant to the Title XIX state plan, and all checks payable on behalf of recipients shall be drawn on and paid from this fund.

9. The child support enforcement fund shall consist of moneys appropriated by the state, and such moneys as may be received from the federal government or other sources including moneys representing assigned support obligations collected on behalf of recipients of public assistance and nonrecipients of public assistance, any fees collected by the department and any incentive payments received from other states. From this fund shall be paid any moneys collected which represent assigned support obligations required by state law or federal law to be returned to the obligee on whose behalf the obligation was collected, incentive payments to political subdivisions of this state or to other states, any reimbursement to the federal government for its respective share of payments for aid to families with dependent children and administrative costs incurred by the department in the administration of the child support enforcement program including purchase of child support enforcement services pursuant to the terms of cooperative agreements entered into with political subdivisions of this state, appropriate courts, law enforcement officials or others. Nothing herein shall prohibit the appropriation of federal funds to defer all administrative costs incurred by the department pursuant to chapter 454 in the event that federal financial participation is extended to include all costs.