(1) The cabinet shall take all necessary actions to ensure that parents receiving public assistance may engage in educational and vocational programs where assessment shows their chances of achieving self-sufficiency will improve.
(2) The cabinet shall file quarterly progress reports and an annual report with the Legislative Research Commission for distribution to the Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children documenting the results of the cabinet’s efforts to enable parents receiving public assistance to participate in activities to achieve self- sufficiency. The annual report shall identify the number and proportion of parents, compared to the previous state fiscal year and the last full year of activity under the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Program who:

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 205.702

  • Cabinet: means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Public assistance: means money grants, assistance in kind, or services to or for the benefit of needy aged, needy blind, needy permanently and totally disabled persons, needy children, or persons with whom a needy child lives or a family containing a combination of these categories, except that the term shall not be construed to permit the granting of financial aid where the purpose of such aid is to obtain an abortion. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(a) Participated in each type of educational, vocational training, or work activity, including post-secondary education;
(b) Successfully completed educational or vocational programs;
(c) Earned income due to work activity, including work study programs, while receiving public assistance;
(d) Became ineligible for public assistance due to increases in earnings; and
(e) Became ineligible for public assistance for other reasons, including but not limited to penalties or expiration of time limits.
Effective: June 29, 2023
History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 25, sec. 13, effective June 29, 2023. — Created
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 236, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998.

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