The Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund, established by Act approved July 8, 1955 shall be held by the Illinois Department and shall be used for the following purposes:
         1. To provide immediate financial aid to applicants
    
in acute need who have been determined eligible for aid under Articles III, IV, or V.
        2. To provide emergency aid to recipients under said
    
Articles who have failed to receive their grants because of mail box or other thefts, or who are victims of a burnout, eviction, or other circumstances causing privation, in which cases the delays incident to the issuance of grants from appropriations would cause hardship and suffering.
        3. To provide emergency aid for transportation, meals
    
and lodging to applicants who are referred to cities other than where they reside for physical examinations to establish blindness or disability, or to determine the incapacity of the parent of a dependent child.
        4. To provide emergency transportation expense
    
allowances to recipients engaged in vocational training and rehabilitation projects.
        5. To assist public aid applicants in obtaining
    
copies of birth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses or other similar legal documents which may facilitate the verification of eligibility for public aid under this Code.
        6. To provide immediate payments to current or former
    
recipients of child support enforcement services, or refunds to responsible relatives, for child support made to the Illinois Department under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act when such recipients of services or responsible relatives are legally entitled to all or part of such child support payments under applicable State or federal law.
        7. To provide payments to individuals or providers of
    
transportation to and from medical care for the benefit of recipients under Articles III, IV, V, and VI.
        8. To provide immediate payment of fees, as follows:
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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 305 ILCS 5/12-8

  • 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.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14

             (A) To sheriffs and other public officials
        
authorized by law to serve process in judicial and administrative child support actions in the State of Illinois and other states.
            (B) To county clerks, recorders of deeds, and
        
other public officials and keepers of real property records in order to perfect and release real property liens.
            (C) To State and local officials in connection
        
with the processing of Qualified Illinois Domestic Relations Orders.
            (D) To the State Registrar of Vital Records,
        
local registrars of vital records, or other public officials and keepers of voluntary acknowledgment of paternity forms.
    Disbursements from the Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund shall be made by the Illinois Department.
     Expenditures from the Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund shall be for purposes which are properly chargeable to appropriations made to the Illinois Department, or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs 6 and 8, to the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or the Child Support Administrative Fund, except that no expenditure, other than payment of the fees provided for under subparagraph 8 of this Section, shall be made for purposes which are properly chargeable to appropriations for the following objects: personal services; extra help; state contributions to retirement system; state contributions to Social Security; state contributions for employee group insurance; contractual services; travel; commodities; printing; equipment; electronic data processing; operation of auto equipment; telecommunications services; library books; and refunds. The Illinois Department shall reimburse the Public Assistance Emergency Revolving Fund by warrants drawn by the State Comptroller on the appropriation or appropriations which are so chargeable, or, in the case of payments under subparagraphs 6 and 8, by warrants drawn on the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund or the Child Support Administrative Fund, payable to the Revolving Fund.
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