Background: The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services requires all Administrative Procedure rules to be reviewed every five years. The intent of the policy is to ensure that rules are clearly written and that program requirements are accurate, up-to-date and clearly expressed. To the extent possible, unnecessary paperwork will be eliminated and local agencies will be given increased flexibility. The purpose of a rule review is to determine whether a rule should be continued without amendment, be amended or be rescinded, taking into consideration each rule's scope and purpose.

Implementation: 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 program.

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

5101:9-32-01 Food assistance: quality assessment review process.

This rule sets forth the quality assessment process. This rule has been updated to change the references from "stamps" to "assistance," and the web address for the Bureau of Program Integrity was updated with the current web address.

5101:9-32-03 Food assistance: quality assessment findings.

This rule sets forth the quality assessment review process along with the county agency disagreement process. This rule has been updated to change the reference from "stamps" to "assistance," and the revision date for form JFS 04195 was updated to 9/2011. The contact area that the county agency has to send a request for further consideration if they disagree with an error finding was also updated.

5101:9-32-10 Food assistance: federal incentive or sanctions as a result of the quality assessment review.

This rule sets forth the federal incentive or sanctions as a result of the quality assessment review. This rule has been updated to change the references from "stamps" to "assistance."