Iowa § 239B.1 - 239B.1 Definitions.

§ 239B.1. 239B.1 Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Applicant” means a person who files an application for participation in the family investment program under this chapter. 2. “Assistance” means a family investment program payment. 3. “Child” means an unmarried person who is less than eighteen years of age or an unmarried person who is eighteen years of age and is engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or equivalency requirements in a manner which is reasonably expected to result in completion of the requirements prior to the person reaching nineteen years of age. 4. “Department” means the department of health and human services. 5. “Director” means the director of health and human services. 6. “Family” means a family unit that includes at least one child and at least one parent or other specified relative of the child. 7. “Family investment agreement” means the agreement developed with a participant in accordance with section 239B.8. 8. “Family investment program” means the family investment program under this chapter. 9. “Limited benefit plan” means a period of time in which a participant or member of a participant’s family is either eligible for reduced assistance only or ineligible for any assistance under the family investment program, in accordance with section 239B.9. 10. “Minor parent” means an applicant or participant parent who is less than eighteen years of age and has never been married. 11. “Participant” means a person who is receiving full or partial family investment program assistance. For the purposes of sections 239B.8 and 239B.9, “participant” also includes each individual who does not directly receive assistance but who is required to be engaged in work or training options specified in the participant’s family investment agreement entered into under section 239B.8. 12. “PROMISE JOBS program” or “JOBS program” means the promoting independence and self-sufficiency through employment job opportunities and basic skills program created in section 239B.17. 13. “Specified relative” means a person who is, or was at any time, one of the following relatives of an applicant or participant child, by means of blood relationship, marriage, or adoption, or is a spouse of one of the following relatives: a. Parent. b. Grandparent. c. Great-grandparent. d. Great-great-grandparent. e. Stepparent of the child, but not the parent of the stepparent. f. Sibling. g. Stepsibling. h. Sibling by at least the half blood. i. Uncle or aunt by at least the half blood. j. Great-uncle or great-aunt. k. Great-great-uncle or great-great-aunt. l. First cousin. m. Nephew or niece. n. Second cousin. 97 Acts, ch 41, §2, 34; 2007 Acts, ch 124, §1; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §779, 780 Referred to in §239.1, 252B.1 Thu Dec 11 19:13:13 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 239B.1 (21, 0)