358-1.2 Applicant/recipient.
For applicants and recipients, these regulations govern the following:
(a) Notice. These regulations set forth what information you are
entitled to receive if you have been accepted for or denied public assistance, medical
assistance, HEAP, food stamp benefits or services or if there is to be a discontinuance,
reduction, or suspension in the public assistance, medical assistance, food stamp benefits
or services which you are receiving or if there is an increase in the public assistance,
medical assistance or food stamp benefits you are receiving or if there is to be a change
in the calculation of such assistance or benefits or if you are involuntarily discharged
from a tier II facility as defined in Part 900 of this Title.
(b) Timing. These regulations set forth the time periods within which
you are obligated to request a fair hearing and/or conference if your application for
public assistance, medical assistance, HEAP, food stamp benefits or services is not acted
upon in a timely manner, or if you have been denied public assistance, medical assistance,
food stamp benefits or services or if there is to be a discontinuance, reduction, or
suspension in the public assistance, medical assistance, food stamp benefits or services
you are receiving, or if there is an increase in the public assistance, medical assistance
or food stamp benefits you are receiving, or if there is to be a change in the calculation
of such assistance or benefits; or if you are told that you have received an overissuance
of food stamp benefits.
(c) Procedures. These regulations set forth what you are required to do
to have an action of a social services agency reviewed when you are denied public
assistance, medical assistance, food stamp benefits, HEAP or services, or when there is a
discontinuance, reduction, or suspension in the public assistance, medical assistance,
food stamp benefits or services which you are receiving, or when there is an increase in
the public assistance, medical assistance or food stamps which you are receiving, or if
you are involuntarily discharged from a tier II facility as defined in Part 900 of this
Title, or if the social services agency has not acted in a timely manner or if there is a
change in the calculation of such assistance or benefits, or if you are told that you have
received an overissuance of food stamp benefits; how to ask for a conference and fair
hearing; how to exercise your right to have your public assistance, medical assistance,
food stamp benefits or services continued until a hearing decision is issued; how to
request another hearing date if you are unable to attend the fair hearing on the day it is
scheduled to be held; how to get an interpreter if you do not speak English or if you are
deaf; and who you may bring to a conference, or fair hearing.
(d) Decision. These regulations set forth what you should do if the
social services agency which is a party to the fair hearing does not comply with your fair
hearing decision.