Background: Ohio recently elected to reduce the quality control sample size for the Food Assistance Program. With the reduced sample size, every county may not have a case pulled for quality control review, which will not allow the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) to gather an accurate assessment of each county agency's food assistance payment accuracy rate. Because the quality control reviews will no longer give an accurate error rate for each county, this performance measure is being rescinded.

Implementation: The proposed rules in this packet are contained in the Administrative Procedure Manual. There will be no changes to these rules that directly affect the eligibility of applicants or recipients, or how any county agency will administer the programs.

The following is a brief description of the changes to rules:

5101:9-10-01 County Department of Job and Family Services Performance Measures, Standards and Goals.

The references to "stamps" were changed to "assistance," and the references to "OWF assistance groups" were changed to "assistance groups with a work eligible individual." Clarification was also added to provide further information on where specific information is obtained. Section (E) (4), Food stamp payment accuracy, was removed from the rule because this measure no longer provides an accurate assessment for each county agency.

5101:9-10-02 County Department of Job and Family Services Continuous Improvement Plan

The references to "stamps" were changed to "assistance," and language was added to allow ODJFS the option to waive the continuous improvement plan if a county agency's performance was above the set standard in the latest available two consecutive quarters, but below the standard on the measurement year at the time the annual performance rate data becomes available.

Instructions: