5101.183 Rules regarding recovering cost of social services provided or diverted to ineligible persons. - Ohio Statutes

5101.183 Rules regarding recovering cost of social services provided or diverted to ineligible persons.

(A) The director of job and family services, in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, may adopt rules under which county departments of job and family services or public children services agencies shall take action to recover the cost of social services provided to any of the following:

(1) Persons who were not eligible for social services but who secured social services through fraud or misrepresentation;

(2) Persons who were eligible for social services but who intentionally diverted the services to other persons who were not eligible for the services.

(B) A county department of job and family services or public children services agency may bring a civil action against a recipient of social services to recover any costs described in division (A) of this section.

(C) A county department of job and family services or public children services agency shall retain any money it recovers under division (A) of this section and shall use the money for the provision of social services, except that, if federal law requires the department of job and family services to return any portion of the money so recovered to the federal government, the county department or agency shall pay that portion to the department of job and family services.

Effective Date: 07-01-2000