Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:5126 Primary Sponsor:Davenport Committee Number:27 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Aid to families, benefit payments Residing Body:House Current Committee:Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Computer Document Number:CYY/16037AC.94 Introduced Date:19940414 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940414 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Davenport Type of Legislation:General Bill
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5126 House 19940414 Introduced, read first time, 27
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TO AMEND SECTION 43-5-65, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY FOR AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN, SO AS TO REQUIRE AS A CONDITION OF ELIGIBILITY THAT THE RECIPIENT REPAY AT AN INTEREST RATE OF FIVE PERCENT BENEFITS RECEIVED WHEN TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS HAVE ELAPSED SINCE THE LAST BENEFIT PAID.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 43-5-65(a) of the 1976 Code is amended by adding at the end:
"(3) agree to repay the State the aid to families with dependent children that the recipient receives with repayment to begin after twenty-four months have elapsed since the last benefit is paid at an interest rate calculated at five percent annually; at the time the last benefit is paid to a recipient, the department shall provide the recipient with the total amount of benefits paid, a repayment amount and schedule, the date on which payments are to begin, which will be twenty-four months from the last payment made, and when payments will be completed; the recipient shall begin making these payments twenty-four months after the last benefit payment is made; by accepting aid to families with dependent children a recipient is considered to have agreed to repay the State pursuant to the provisions of this item and regulations promulgated under this item for the benefits the recipients receive. The department may employ those legal means necessary to ensure the collection of the payments owed under this item."
SECTION 2. The payments the State Department of Social Services receives pursuant to Section 43-5-65(a) must be remitted to the General Fund of the State.
SECTION 3. The amendments to Section 43-5-65(a)(3), as contained in Section 1 of this act, apply to recipients who apply or reapply or who are reinstated for aid to families with dependent children on or after this act's effective date and apply only to benefits paid on or after this act's effective date.
SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon issuance of a waiver granted to the Department of Social Services by the United States Department of Health and Human Services authorizing the provisions of this act.