31 Del. C. § 519

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§ Â 519. Payment of assistance grants by the Department of Welfare.

Official statutory text

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Public Welfare may make payment of assistance grants under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program on behalf of certain eligible cases or families directly to the Employment Security Commission, Department of Labor, of this State, with the understanding that such assistance payments so made shall be used to compensate the eligible case or family for employment services rendered through placement of the employable adult or person 16 years of age or older and not in school with a public or private nonprofit agency for the purpose of performing specific duties.

The Employment Security Commission shall maintain accounting controls of such assistance payments made by the Department of Public Welfare and shall refund to the Department of Public Welfare any and all such assistance payments received which may not have been used for the intended purpose, such refunding to be effected within 90 days after such payment is issued.

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