Colleen M. Burdin
HUM/210
July 7, 2013
Melissa Ellison
Examining Government Regulations
In order for any organization to run properly there must be regulations and laws in place. The Human Services Department of any state must adhere to strict guidelines provided by the federal government; if these rules are not followed there would not be enough resources to help every individual that desperately needs it.
My target population in week two was Hispanic immigrants. Many of these people rely on the services provided by their local Human Services Organization. These immigrants come to our country with nothing more than the clothes on their backs so they depend on Human Services to help them with things …show more content…
This change allows Temporary Assistant to Needy family (TANF) to be carried over from the prior year to the current year for any allowable TANF service or activity. There is also the Medicaid: Federal Funding for Medicaid Eligibility Determination and Enrollment Activities. This rule would revise regulations for the processing of Claims Processing and Information Retrieval Systems. This proposal is to include systems used for eligibility determination, enrollment, and eligibility reporting activities. It is also a proposal that all Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMISs) meet certain standard and criteria in terms of timeliness, accuracy, integrity and efficiency and high positive levels of consumer experience acceptance and satisfaction are achieved. I am unsure if I am understanding all of this correctly or even the assignment itself, however I cannot see that either one of these would propose any problems for a Human Services worker If anything it would make it easier. The carry over fund could be useful to help in another need for TANF recipients. The MMIs maintaining all standards of timeliness helps the worker with the efficiency of their caseloads and