2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208 Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief
208.715. Refusal of employment, exceptions to sanctioning of recipient.
Refusal of employment, exceptions to sanctioning of recipient.
208.715. 1. Direct placement programs are not required to sanction the public assistance recipient who refuses employment or an offer of employment for the following reasons and conditions:
(1) Three or fewer employers are direct placement program participants and such employment or offer of employment requires travel to and from the place of employment and the recipient's home which exceeds a total of two hours in round-trip time, inclusive of the time necessary to transport family members to a school or place providing child care, or when walking is the only available means of transportation, the round-trip is more than four miles; or
(2) The employment or offer of employment involves conditions that are in violation of applicable health and safety standards.
2. Nothing in this section shall preempt or supersede any provision of state law which provides greater protections for public assistance recipients from sanctioning.
(L. 1999 S.B. 387, et al. ยง 7)
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