RSA 161:2 Duties of the Department.

Except as otherwise provided by law, the duties of the department of health and human services with respect to the public assistance and welfare activities of the state shall be as hereinafter prescribed, for which funds appropriated for the general purposes of this chapter or RSA 167 may be expended:
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General. Develop plans to provide assistance to needy aged, blind, permanently and totally disabled persons, and dependent children; administer or supervise the administration of these activities, child welfare services, social service index and other activities hereinafter mentioned; establish, maintain and direct an electronic benefits disbursement system using automatic teller machines and point-of-sale devices to distribute such assistance.
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