{"data":{"id":"us/45-cfr-400.2","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"45 CFR 400.2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"The following definitions are applicable for purposes of this part:\nAABD means aid to the aged, blind, and disabled under title XVI of the Social Security Act.\nAB means aid to the blind under title X of the Social Security Act.\nAct means the Immigration and Nationality Act.\nAPTD means aid to the permanently and totally disabled under title XIV of the Social Security Act.\nCase management services means the determination of which service(s) to refer a refugee to, referral to such service(s), and tracking of the refugee's participation in such service(s).\nCash assistance means financial assistance to refugees, including TANF, SSI, refugee cash assistance, and general assistance, as defined herein, under title IV of the Act.\nDesignee, when referring to the State agency's designee, means an agency designated by the State agency for the purpose of carrying out the requirements of this part.\nDirector means the Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.\nEconomic self-sufficiency means earning a total family income at a level that enables a family unit to support itself without receipt of a cash assistance grant.\nFamily unit means an individual adult, married individuals without children, or parents, or custodial relatives, with minor children who are not eligible for TANF, who live in the same household.\nFederal Funding or ‘FF’ means Federal funding for a State's expenditures under the refugee resettlement program.\nGeneral assistance program means a financial and/or medical assistance program existing in a State or local jurisdiction which: (a) Is funded entirely by State and/or local funds; (b) is generally available to needy persons residing in the State or locality who meet specified income and resource requirements; and (c) consists of one-time emergency, or ongoing assistance intended to meet basic needs of recipients, such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or other essentials of living.\nHHS means the Department of Health and Human Services.\nLocal resettlement agency means a local affiliate or subcontractor of a national voluntary agency that has entered into a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement with the United States Department of State or other appropriate Federal agency to provide for the reception and initial placement of refugees in the United States.\nMedical assistance means medical services to refugees, including Medicaid, refugee medical assistance, and general assistance, as defined herein, under title IV of the Act.\nNational voluntary agency means one of the national resettlement agencies or a State or local government that has entered into a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement with the United States Department of State or other appropriate Federal agency to provide for the reception and initial placement of refugees in the United States.\nOAA means old age assistance under title I of the Social Security Act.\nORR means the Office of Refugee Resettlement.\nPlan means a written description of the State's refugee resettlement program and a commitment by the State to administer or supervise the administration of the program in accordance with Federal requirements in this part.\nRCA Plan means a written description of the public/private RCA program administered by local resettlement agencies under contract or grant with a State.\nRefugee means an individual who meets the definitions of a refugee under section 101(a)(42) of the Act.\nRefugee cash assistance (RCA) means cash assistance provided under section 412(e) of the Act to refugees who are ineligible for TANF, OAA, AB, APTD, AABD, or SSI.\nRefugee medical assistance (RMA) means: (a) Medical assistance provided under section 412(e) of the Act to refugees who are ineligible for the Medicaid program; and (b) services provided in accordance with §§ 400.106 and 400.107 of this part.\nSecretary means the Secretary of HHS.\nSponsor means an individual, church, civic organization, State or local government, or other group or organization which has agreed to help in the reception and initial placement of refugees in the United States and other public and private non-profit agencies, wherever.\nSSI means supplemental security income under title XVI of the Social Security Act.\nState means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific.\nState agency means the agency (or agencies) designated by the Governor or the appropriate legislative authority of the State to develop and administer, or supervise the administration of, the plan and includes any local agencies administering the plan under supervision of the State agency.\nState Coordinator means the individual designated by the Governor or the appropriate legislative authority of the State to be responsible for, and who is authorized to, ensure coordination of public and private resources in refugee resettlement.\nSupport services means services provided or contracted for by a State, which are designed to meet resettlement needs of refugees, for which funding is available under title IV of the Act.\nTANF means temporary assistance for needy families under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act.\nTime-eligibility means the period for which FF (Federal funding) is provided under §§ 400.203 and 400.204 of this part, after applying the limitation “[s]ubject to the availability of funds” in accordance with § 400.202.\nTitle IV of the Act means title IV, Chapter 2, of the Immigration and Nationality Act.","path":["Title 45—Public Welfare","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Public Welfare","CHAPTER IV—OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","PART 400—REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM","Subpart A—Introduction"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-45.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:21Z","sha256":"7538dcb940369110ccc7114f2f2a7714f563553d7d884d398845076cf606d4d2","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/45-cfr-400.1","next":"us/45-cfr-400.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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