A. Definitions beginning with "A":
(1)
Adult residential shelter care home
(ARSCH): means a shelter care home for adults that is licensed by the
department of health.
(2)
Alien: means an individual who is not a United States
citizen.
(3)
Application: means a written request for assistance, on the
appropriate ISD form, signed by or on behalf of an individual or
family.
(4)
Attendant:
means an individual needed in the home for medical, housekeeping or child care
reasons.
(5)
Authorized
beneficiary: means the surviving spouse of a disabled adult or the
caretaker of an unrelated child, who has the ability to use a deceased
recipient's issued payment.
(6)
Authorized representative: means an adult who is designated in
writing by the applicant and is sufficiently knowledgeable about the
applicant/benefit group's circumstances to complete the application form
correctly and represent the benefit group.
B. Definitions beginning with "B":
(1)
Basic needs:
means food, clothing, shelter, utilities, personal requirements and the
individual's share of household supplies.
(2)
Benefit group: means an
individual or group of individuals authorized to receive cash assistance
financed by state or local funds.
(3)
Benefit month: means the
month for which cash assistance benefits are issued.
(4)
Budget month: means the
calendar month for which income and other circumstances of the benefit group
shall be determined in order to calculate the cash assistance
amount.
C. Definitions beginning with "C":
(1)
Capacity to work: the
effects of impairment(s), work-related factors, functionality on the ability
for an individual to engage in gainful employment.
(2)
Capital gains: means the
proceeds from the sale of capital goods or equipment.
(3)
Cash assistance: means
state-funded cash assistance in the general assistance program, the adult
residential shelter care home program (ARSCH), or the burial assistance program
for the indigent.
(4)
Categorical eligibility (CE): means a SNAP household that meets
one of the following conditions is considered to be CE and have limited
eligibility requirements. (a)
Financial
CE: Any SNAP household in which all members receive Title IV-A
assistance (TANF), general assistance (GA), or supplemental security income
(SSI) benefits is considered to be categorically eligible for SNAP
benefits.
(b)
Broad-based
CE: Any SNAP household, in good standing, in which at least one member
is receiving a non-cash TANF/MOE funded benefit or service and household income
is below one hundred sixty-five percent FPG.
(5)
Certification: means the
authorization of eligibility of a benefit group for the issuance of cash
assistance benefits.
(6)
Certification period: means the time period in calendar months
that is assigned to a benefit group that is approved to receive cash assistance
benefits.
(7)
Collateral
contact: means an individual or agency designated to provide information
concerning eligibility.
(8)
Contingency: means requirement(s) an individual must accept as a
condition of eligibility such as, treatment available outside the GA program
unless a determination is made that good cause exists for the individual's
inability to comply.
(9)
Conversion factor: means anticipated monthly income received on a
weekly or bi-weekly basis shall be converted to a monthly
amount.
D. Definitions beginning with "D":
(1)
Date of admission: means the
date established by the immigration and naturalization service as the date an
alien (or sponsored alien) was admitted for permanent residence.
(2)
Date of application: means
the date the application is received by the income support division offices
during regular business hours, this includes applications that are dropped off
submitted in person and electronically. Applications that are dropped off or
submitted electronically after regularly scheduled business hours, holidays and
weekends will be considered received as of the next business day.
(3)
Date of authorization: means
the date when action is taken to approve a cash payment for a benefit
group.
(4)
Date of
entry: means the date established by the immigration and naturalization
service as the date an alien (or sponsored alien) was admitted for permanent
residence.
(5)
Day(s):
means working days, unless otherwise defined in this chapter.
(6)
Department: means the human
services department.
(7)
Dependent child: means an individual who is seventeen years of age
or younger; eighteen years of age and enrolled in high school; or between
eighteen and twenty-two years of age and is receiving special education
services regulated by the state public education department.
(8)
Director: means the director
of the income support division.
(9)
Disability: means the definitions of disability related to the
general assistance program and the disability determination process found at
8.106.420.7
NMAC.
E. Definitions beginning with "E":
(1)
Earned income: means cash or
payment in-kind that is received as wages from employment or payment in lieu of
wages; and earnings from self-employment or earnings acquired from the direct
provision of services, goods or property, production of goods, management of
property or supervision of services.
(2)
Emancipated: means an
individual under the age of 18 who is legally recognized as no longer under
parental control due to the individual's marriage, active duty in the armed
forces or by the order of a court.
(3)
Encumbrance: means debt owed
on property.
(4)
Equity
value: means the fair market value of property, less any encumbrances
owed on the property.
(5)
Essential person: means an individual responsible for the care of
a disabled general assistance recipient to the extent that placement into
institutional care would be required were it not for care provided by this
individual.
(6)
Expungement: means the permanent deletion of cash benefits from an
EBT account that is stale.
F. Definitions beginning with "F":
(1)
Fair hearing:
means an administrative proceeding that a claimant or the claimant's
representative may request if: (a) an
application is not acted on within the application time limits at
8.106.110.12 NMAC; or
(b) an application is denied in whole or in
part; or
(c) cash assistance or
services are modified, terminated or not provided.
(2)
Fair market value (FMV):
means the amount an item can be expected to sell for on the open market at the
prevailing rate of return. For vehicles, the term FMV means the amount a dealer
would buy a vehicle for wholesale or as a trade-in, not the amount the dealer
would sell the vehicle for at retail.
(3)
Federal act: means the
federal Social Security Act and rules promulgated pursuant to the Social
Security Act.
(4)
Federal
fiscal year: means the time period beginning on October 1 and ending on
September 30 of the calendar year.
(5)
Federal poverty guidelines:
means the level of income defining poverty by family size, published annually
in the federal register by the United States department of health and human
services.
G. Definitions beginning with "G":
(1)
Gainful employment: means
any job or class of jobs in the state that would provide an income equaling or
exceeding eighty-five percent of the federal poverty guidelines to the benefit
group.
(2)
Government
entity: means any federal, state, tribal or local unit of government as
well as any non-government entity that receives public funds for the purpose of
meeting the needs of its clientele.
(3)
Gross income: means the
total amount of earned or unearned income before any voluntary or involuntary
deductions are made, such as, but not limited to, federal and state taxes
FICA, garnishments, insurance premiums (including medicare), and monies due and
owing the benefit group but diverted by the provider. Gross income does not
include specific income exclusions, such as but not limited...
