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As used in this article, the term:

  1. "Department" means the Department of Human Services and includes the county departments of family and children services and the agents, agencies, officers, and employees designated by the commissioner of human services to perform any function vested in the Department of Human Services by this article.
  2. "Public assistance" means payment in or by money, medical care, remedial care, goods, or services to or for the benefit of needy persons under any categories that may be established pursuant to this article.
  3. "Recipient" means a person to whom, or on whose behalf, public assistance is granted.

(Ga. L. 1965, p. 385, § 2; Ga. L. 1967, p. 878, § 1; Ga. L. 1977, p. 384, § 19; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-2/HB 228.)

Code Commission notes.

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, "commissioner of human services" was substituted for "commissioner of human resources" in paragraph (1).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Briarcliff Haven, Inc. v. Department of Human Resources, 403 F. Supp. 1355 (N.D. Ga. 1975).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Limiting time for presentation of claims of Medicaid providers.

- Department of Human Resources as administrator of Georgia's Medicaid program (now administered by Department of Community Health) is not prohibited from limiting the time within which claims of providers of Medicaid services must be presented for payment. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-153.

County may donate funds to be used for child day care services as part of the state's Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U75-1.

Appropriation to private day care center not operated as service for eligible children.

- Since the Georgia Constitution limits county taxation and expenditures to welfare programs as provided by law, and the only welfare provided by law which may include day care services is the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, there would be no authority for a county to appropriate money for the private day care center which is not operated as a service for eligible children. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U75-1.


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