Background:

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services requires all Internal Management 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 The purpose of a rule review is to determine whether a rule should be continued without amendment, be amended or be rescinded, taking into consideration each rule's scope and purpose.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:

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

5101:9-32-01- Food Assistance: quality assessment review process. This rule sets forth the quality assessment process. This rule is being rescinded and replaced with a new rule of the same number and content. The paragraphs were reformatted and a minor abbreviation change was made to "C.F.R.".

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 is being amended. Changes to the rule include: the return date was changed from fifteen days to seven days; inaccurate information is being removed from paragraph (A)(1) and new wording added to paragraph (A)(2); other clerical edits are being made to the rule.

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 is being amended with minor, grammatical edits.