Idaho Code § 56-201 Definitions

• Library: Idaho Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through the 2023 Regular Legislative Session
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Idaho Code § 56-201

As used in this act:

(a) "State department" means the state department of health and welfare;

(b) "Director" means the director of the department of health and welfare;

(c) "Public welfare" means public assistance and social services;

(d) "Social services" means activities of the department in efforts to bring about economic, social and vocational adjustment of families and persons;

(e) "Public assistance" includes general assistance, old-age assistance, aid to the blind, assistance to families with children, aid to the disabled, and medical assistance;

(f) "General assistance" means direct assistance in cash, direct assistance in kind, and supplementary assistance;

(g) "Direct assistance in cash" means money payments to eligible people not classified as old-age assistance, or aid to the blind, or assistance to families with children, or aid to the disabled, or medical assistance;

(h) "Direct assistance in kind" means payments to others on behalf of a person or family for food, rent, clothing, and other normal subsistence needs;

(i) "Supplementary assistance" means payments to others on behalf of a person or family for transportation and costs incidental to vocational adjustment or employment;

(j) "Old-age assistance" means money payments to or on behalf of needy aged people;

(k) "Aid to the blind" means money payments to or on behalf of blind people who are needy;

(l) "Assistance to families with children" means money payments, direct assistance in kind, supplementary assistance, and social services targeted toward self-sufficiency with respect to or on behalf of eligible families with children;

(m) "Aged" means any person sixty-five (65) years or older;