An application for assistance shall be made to the department. The application shall be in writing or reduced to writing in the manner and upon the form prescribed by the administrator. The application shall be made by the specified relative with whom the dependent child resides or will reside, and shall contain the information required on the application form. One application may be made for several children of the same family if they reside or will reside with the same specified relative.
An applicant for assistance under this chapter and other persons covered by an application are deemed to have assigned to the department of human services at the time of application all rights to periodic support payments to the extent of public assistance received by the applicant and other persons covered by the application. An assignment takes effect upon determination that an applicant or another person covered by an application is eligible for assistance under this chapter, applies to both current and accrued support obligations, and terminates when an applicant or another person covered by an application ceases to receive assistance under this chapter, except with respect to the amount of unpaid support obligations accrued under the assignment. If an applicant or another person covered by an application ceases to receive assistance under this chapter and the applicant or other person covered by the application receives a periodic support payment, the department of human services is entitled only to that amount of the periodic support payment above the current periodic support obligation.
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 239.3; 82 Acts, ch 1237, § 1]
83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 84 Acts, ch 1276, § 3
Referred to in § 239.12, 598.21
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