441—40.22 (239B) Application. The application for the family investment program shall be submitted on the Health and Financial Support Application, Form 470-0462 or Form 470-0466 (Spanish). Form 470-0462 or Form 470-0466 (Spanish) shall be signed by the applicant, the applicant’s authorized representative or, when the applicant is incompetent or incapacitated, someone acting responsibly on the applicant’s behalf. When both parents, or a parent and a stepparent, are in the home, both shall sign the application.
	 40.22(1) Each individual wishing to do so shall have the opportunity to apply for assistance without delay. When the parent is in the home with the child and is not prevented from acting as payee by reason of physical or mental impairment, this parent shall make the application.
	 40.22(2) An applicant may be assisted by other individuals in the application process; the client may be accompanied by such individuals in contact with the local office, and when so accompanied, may also be represented by them. When the applicant has a guardian, the guardian shall participate in the application process.
	 40.22(3) The applicant shall immediately be given an application form to complete. When the applicant requests that the forms be mailed, the local office shall send the necessary forms in the next outgoing mail.
	 40.22(4) A new application is not required when adding a new person to the eligible group or when a parent or a stepparent becomes a member of the household.
	 40.22(5) Reinstatement.
	  a.   	 Assistance shall be reinstated without a new application when all necessary information is provided before the effective date of cancellation and eligibility can be reestablished, or the family meets the conditions described at 441—subparagraph 41.30(3)“d”(9). Exception: The reinstatement provisions of subrule 40.22(5) do not apply when assistance is canceled due to the imposition of a subsequent limited benefit plan as described at 441—subrule 41.24(8).
	  b.   	 Rescinded IAB 7/11/01, effective 9/1/01.
	  c.   	 When eligibility factors are met, assistance shall be reinstated when one of the following completed forms is received by the local office within ten days of the date a cancellation notice is sent to the recipient because the form was incomplete or not returned:
	 (1) 	 Public Assistance Eligibility Report, Form 470-0454, 470-0455, or 470-3719(S).
	 (2) 	 Combined PAER/FAIR, Form 470-4387, 470-4387(M), or 470-4387(S).
	 (3) 	 Review/Recertification Eligibility Document, Form 470-2881, 470-2881(M), 470-4083 (Spanish), or 470-4083(M).
	  d.   	 Rescinded, effective October 1, 1985.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 239B.3, 239B.5 and 239B.6.