Chapter
Department of Human Services and County Departments of Public Welfare
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-1— Department of Human Services to be State Department of Public Welfare [Repealed effective July 1, 2023]
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-2— Mississippi Department of Human Services; Executive Director of Human Services; Joint Oversight Committee; powers of executive director; structure of department [Repealed effective July 1, 2023]
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-3— Delegation, privatization, or contracting with private entity for operation of office, bureau or division of department prohibited; contracts for improvement of performance or efficiency of services authorized [Repealed effective July 1, 2023]
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-4— Powers and duties of department
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-5— Duties of department [Repealed effective July 1, 2023]
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-6— Repealed
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-7— Family resource centers; information campaign for low income individuals; telephone hotline for reporting welfare fraud
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-8— Repealed
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-9— County department of public welfare
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-10— Repealed
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-11— Expenses of county welfare office
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-12— Expenditure of municipal or county funds to support public welfare programs
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-13— Political activity
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-15— Office of State Department
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-17— Cooperation with the federal government
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-19— Disclosure of records of disbursement and payment of public assistance governed by federal regulations; penalty for violation
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-21— Disposal of abandoned applications, closed case files, and the like
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-23— Fraud investigation unit; duties; staff; assistance from and to other agencies; issuance of subpoenas
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-25— Assistant prosecutors for prosecution of fraud in connection with assistance programs; investigation and prosecution costs to be subsidized
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-27— Action maintainable by department of public welfare to recover benefits wrongfully obtained; attorney’s fees; evidence
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-28— Online electronic benefit transfer (EBT) system for food stamps; pilot project; federal approval and funding
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-29— Offline electronic benefit transfer (EBT) system for food stamps; demonstration project; federal approval and funding
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-29.1— Department of Human Services authorized to develop pilot program to track usage of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-30— Mississippi TANF Implementation Council [Repealed effective July 1, 2023]
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-31— Purpose of law; contracts with, and payment by, federal authority
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-33— Definitions
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-35— Amount of payments
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-37— When person becomes ineligible to receive payments
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-51— Creation of division; areas of responsibility
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-53— Organization of division; qualifications of director
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-55— Standards for employment and service delivery; Training and Testing Advisory Council created; duties; membership; meetings; chairperson; quorum [Repealed effective July 1, 2019]
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-57— Recordkeeping procedures; uniform intake procedure
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-59— Allocation of departmental resources
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-61— Repealed
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-63— Interdepartmental sharing of resources and services for preventing and detecting child abuse and neglect
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-65— Mississippi Child Care Quality Step System established by requiring Department of Human Services Office for Children and Youth to develop and implement pilot voluntary quality rating system (QRS)
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-67— Office of Children and Youth to conduct needs assessment to determine need for program to provide incentives to certain teachers/directors who make educational advancements listed in QRS criteria
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-101— Mississippi Interagency Council on Homelessness created; duties and purposes; membership