§ 7-761.05a. Ticket to Work Employment Network Fund.

(a) There is established as a special fund the Ticket to Work Employment Network Fund (“Fund”), which shall be administered by DDS in accordance with subsection (c) of this section.

(b) The Fund shall consist of revenue from payments from the Social Security Administration as an Employment Network for the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program, establish pursuant to the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, approved December 17, 1999 (113 Stat. 1863; 42 U.S.C. § 1320b-19 ).

(c) The Fund shall be used for the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program; provided, that to the extent that payments received from the Social Security Administration represent administrative or other fee payments, those amounts shall be available to DDS to defray the costs and expenses associated with administering the program or for any other purpose as determined by the Director.

(d) (1) The money deposited into the Fund, and interest earned, shall not revert to the unrestricted fund balance of the General Fund of the District of Columbia at the end of a fiscal year, or at any other time.

(2) Subject to authorization by Congress, any funds appropriated in the Fund shall be continually available without regard to fiscal year limitation.